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1782 (
MDCCLXXXII ) was a
common year starting on Tuesday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
common year starting on Saturday of the
Julian calendar , the 1782nd year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 782nd year of the
2nd millennium , the 82nd year of the
18th century , and the 3rd year of the
1780s decade. As of the start of 1782, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
January 7 – The first American
commercial bank (
Bank of North America ) opens.
January 15 – Superintendent of Finance
Robert Morris goes before the
United States Congress to recommend establishment of a national
mint and decimal coinage.
January 23 – The
Laird of Johnstone (George Ludovic Houston) invites people to buy marked plots of land which, when built upon, form the planned town of
Johnstone , Scotland, to provide employment for his
thread and
cotton mills .
February 5 – The Spanish defeat British forces and capture
Menorca .
February 6 –
Singu Min is overthrown as king of Myanmar by his cousin
Phaungka Min and 8 days later will be executed by his uncle
Bodawpayar .
February 18 –
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War :
Shirley's Gold Coast expedition lands at
Elmina on the
Dutch Gold Coast . The British expedition fails to take the fort here but over the next several weeks seizes, with minimal resistance, four small Dutch forts.
February 27 – The British House of Commons
votes against further war in America , paving the way for the
Second Rockingham ministry and the
Peace of Paris .
March 8 –
Gnadenhutten massacre : In
Ohio , 29
Native American men, 27 women, and 34 children are killed by colonial militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by another Native American group.
March 14 –
Battle of Wuchale : Emperor
Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of
Oromo near
Wuchale .
March 27 –
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes
Prime Minister of Great Britain .
[1]
March 31 (
Easter Sunday ) –
Mission San Buenaventura is founded in
Las Californias , part of the
Viceroyalty of New Spain .
April–June
April 12 :
Battle of the Saintes .
April 12 –
Battle of the Saintes : A British fleet under
Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a French fleet under the
Comte de Grasse , in the
West Indies .
April 19 –
John Adams secures recognition of the United States as an independent government by the
Dutch Republic . During this visit, he also negotiates a loan of five million
guilders , financed by
Nicolaas van Staphorst and
Wilhelm Willink .
April 21 – A
Lak Mueang (city pillar) is erected on
Rattanakosin Island , located on the eastern bank of the
Chao Phraya River , by order of King
Rama I , an act considered the founding of the capital city of
Bangkok .
May 17 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the
Repeal of Act for Securing Dependence of Ireland Act , a major component of the reforms collectively known as the
Constitution of 1782 , which restore legislative independence to the
Parliament of Ireland .
[2]
[3]
June 18 – In Switzerland,
Anna Göldi is sentenced to death for
witchcraft (the last legal witchcraft sentence).
June 20 – The
bald eagle is chosen as the emblem of the United States of America. On the same day, the Confederation Congress adopts the design for the
Great Seal of the United States .
[4]
July–September
July –
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor , receives a visit from
Pope Pius VI .
July 1 –
Raid on Lunenburg : American
privateers attack the British settlement at
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia .
July 16 –
August 29 – The Masonic Congress of Wilhelmsbad,
Germany , one of history's most important ever secret society congresses, takes place. High-degree Freemasons from the whole of Europe spend the time deliberating the fate of the rite of Strict Observance, and hierarchy of the governing bodies of world
Freemasonry , at the
Hanau -Wilhelmsbad spa.
[5]
July 16 –
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's opera
Die Entführung aus dem Serail premieres at the
Burgtheater in
Vienna .
August 7
August 21 – A fire breaks out in
Constantinople at 9:00 in the evening and burns for two and a half days, destroying thousands of buildings and one-half of the city, and killing hundreds of people.
[6]
September 17 –
1782 Central Atlantic hurricane devastates a British
Royal Navy fleet off the
Grand Banks of Newfoundland with the loss of 3,500 lives.
October–December
Date unknown
Chief
Kamehameha I of Hawaii gains control of the northern part of the
island of Hawaii , after defeating his cousin
Kīwalaʻō .
Princess
Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova is the first woman in the world to direct a scientific academy, the
Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences .
London creates the Foot Patrol for public security.
The
British Parliament extends
James Watt 's
patent for the
steam engine to the year
1800 .
The
North Carolina General Assembly incorporates
Washington, North Carolina .
In China, the
Complete Library of the Four Treasuries is completed, the largest literary compilation in China's history (surpassing the
Yongle Encyclopedia of the 15th century). The books are bound in 36,381 volumes (册) with more than 79,000 chapters (卷), comprising about 2.3 million pages, and approximately 800 million
Chinese characters .
The first theater in the Baltic, the
Riga City Theater , is founded.
Saint Petersburg ,
Russia has 300,000 inhabitants.
Births
Philipp Franz von Walther born
3 January
Stephen Lushington born
14 January
Afanasy Grigoriev born
21 January
Daniel Auber born
29 January
Fyodor Tolstoy born
6 February
Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer born
8 February
Malla Silfverstolpe born
8 February
William Miller born
15 February
Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl born
23 February
Louise Antoinette Lannes born
26 February
Marie Thérèse Haze born
27 February
Suzanne le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau born
1 March
Johann Rudolf Wyss born
4 March
Ferdinand Gottlieb von Gmelin born
10 March
Orest Kiprensky born
13 March
Aglaé Auguié born
24 March
Caroline Bonaparte born
25 March
María Antonia Santos Plata born
10 April
Prince Teimuraz of Georgia born
23 April
William Darlington born
28 April
Charles-René Laitié born
6 May
Marcia Van Ness born
9 May
Johan Gustaf Sandberg born
13 May
Johann Rombauer born
28 May
Charles Waterton born
3 June
Marie-Anne-Julie Forestier born
13 June
Olry Terquem born
16 June
Charles Floyd born
20 June
Fortunée Briquet born
26 June
Pierre Berthier born
3 July
Rosa Morandi born
5 July
Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca born
6 July
Sophie Ørsted born
16 July
Mariano Enrique Calvo born
18 July
John Field born
26 July
Charles James Napier born
10 August
Charles Lowell born
15 August
Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri born
17 August
Prince Carl Gustav, Duke of Småland born
25 August
Christian Ludwig Nitzsch born
3 September
Marie of Baden born
7 September
Daoguang Emperor born
16 September
Christoph Hawich born
17 September
Stephen Price born
25 September
Richard Peek born
3 October
Charles Maclaren born
7 October
Steen Steensen Blicher born
11 October
Niccolò Paganini born
27 October
Lorenzo Maria of Saint Francis Xavier born
30 October
F. J. Robinson born
1 November
John Pye born
7 November
Joseph Kornhäusel born
13 November
Sophie Swetchine born
22 November
Karl Johann Bernhard Karsten born
26 November
Henry William Pickersgill born
3 December
Waleria Tarnowska born
9 December
Charles Nicolas Fabvier born
10 December
Hans Jakob Oeri born
16 December
Julius Vincenz von Krombholz born
19 December
Therese Brunetti born
24 December
Philaret Drozdov born
26 December
Matthias Joseph de Noël born
28 December
Konstantin Bulgakov born
31 December
January
February
February 1 –
Bill Johnston , American pirate (d.
1870 )
February 2
James Chalmers , alleged Scottish inventor of the adhesive postage stamp (d.
1853 )
Henri de Rigny , commander of the French squadron at the Battle of Navarino in the Greek War of Independence (d.
1835 )
February 3
February 4
February 6 –
Fyodor Tolstoy , Russian explorer (d.
1846 )
February 8
February 9
February 10
February 11
February 12 –
Auguste de Schonen , French politician (d.
1849 )
February 14
February 15
February 17 –
Thomas Baxter , British artist (d.
1821 )
February 19
February 22
February 23
February 24 –
Thomas Uwins , British artist (d.
1857 )
February 25 –
William Sturgis , American merchant and politician (d.
1863 )
February 26 –
Louise Antoinette Lannes, Duchess of Montebello , French noble (d.
1856 )
February 27 –
Marie Thérèse Haze , Belgian Religious Sister and foundress, beatified (d.
1876 )
February 28 –
Josef Božek , Czech engineer and inventor (d.
1835 )
March
April
April 1
April 2 –
Johannes West , Inspector of Greenland (d.
1835 )
April 3
April 4
April 5
April 7 –
Marie-Anne Libert , Belgian botanist and mycologist (d.
1865 )
April 9 –
Joseph Hunter Bryan , American politician (d.
1839 )
April 10 –
María Antonia Santos Plata , Neogranadine rebel leader & heroine (d.
1819 )
April 11 –
Abraham Abell , Irish antiquarian (d.
1851 )
April 14 –
Carlo Coccia , Italian composer (d.
1873 )
April 15 –
Eleazer W. Ripley , American politician (d.
1839 )
April 16
April 17
April 18 –
Georg August Goldfuss , German paleontologist, mineralogist, zoologist and botanist (d.
1848 )
April 21
April 23 –
Prince Teimuraz of Georgia , Georgian royal prince and scholar (d.
1846 )
April 25 –
Adriano Balbi , Italian geographer (d.
1848 )
April 26 –
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily , Queen of France (d.
1866 )
[13]
April 27 –
Jeptha Vining Harris , Georgia militia Brigadier General (d.
1856 )
April 28 –
William Darlington , American physician, botanist, politician (d.
1863 )
April 29 –
James Fowle Baldwin , American engineer (d.
1862 )
May
May 1 –
Yevgeny Golovin , Russian general (d.
1858 )
May 4
May 5 –
Edward Richard Stewart , British politician (d.
1851 )
May 6
May 8 –
Ivan Paskevich , military leader of Ukrainian descent (d.
1856 )
May 9
May 10 –
Louis-René Villermé , French economist (d.
1863 )
May 12 –
Lippmann Moses Büschenthal , German poet (d.
1818 )
May 13
May 14
May 16 –
John Sell Cotman , British artist (d.
1842 )
May 18
May 19
May 22 –
Hirose Tansō , Japanese poet and writer (d.
1856 )
May 23
May 26
May 27 –
Antoni Jan Ostrowski , Polish general (d.
1845 )
May 28
May 29 –
James Murray, 1st Baron Glenlyon , British Army general (d.
1837 )
May 30 –
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer , British politician (d.
1845 )
May 31 –
Thomas Courtenay , British politician (d.
1841 )
June
June 1
June 3 –
Charles Waterton , English naturalist, explorer and conservationist (d.
1865 )
June 4
June 5
June 6 –
Vicenta Moguel , Basque writer and translator (d.
1854 )
June 7 –
Rowland Alston , English politician (d.
1865 )
June 8 –
Seaton Grantland , American politician (d.
1864 )
June 9
June 10
June 11 –
Richard Hill , Church of England clergyman in New South Wales (d.
1836 )
June 12
June 13
June 14 –
Anton Aloys Wolf , Prince-Bishop of Laibach (Ljubljana) (d.
1859 )
June 15 –
Alexander George Woodford , British Army officer (d.
1870 )
June 16
June 17 –
Joseph Slater Jr. , British portrait painter and draughtsman (d.
1837 )
June 18
June 19 –
Félicité de La Mennais , French priest, philosopher and political theorist (d.
1854 )
June 20 –
Charles Floyd , American explorer (d.
1804 )
June 21 –
Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony (d.
1863 )
June 24
June 25 –
William O'Brien , Canadian political figure in Nova Scotia (d.
1851 )
June 26
June 29
June 30 –
William Cathcart , Scottish naval officer (d.
1804 )
July
July 1 –
Pieter Hendrik van Zuylen van Nijevelt , Dutch and French army general (d.
1825 )
July 2 –
Adrien de Rougé , French statesman, soldier (d.
1838 )
July 3 –
Pierre Berthier , French geologist (d.
1861 )
July 4 –
Adèle Duchâtel , French court official (d.
1860 )
July 5
July 6
July 7
July 9
July 10 –
Moses Elias Levy , Jewish-American businessman and reformer (d.
1854 )
July 12 –
Étienne Marc Quatremère , French orientalist (d.
1857 )
July 13
July 14
July 16
July 17 –
James Cockle , British surgeon (d.
1854 )
July 18 –
Mariano Enrique Calvo , president and vice president of Bolivia (d.
1842 )
July 19
July 23 –
Johann Heinrich Rosenplänter , Baltic German parish priest and linguist (d.
1846 )
July 24
July 25
July 26 –
John Field , Irish pianist, composer and teacher (d.
1837 )
July 27 –
Basilio Puoti , Italian lexicographer and literary critic (d.
1847 )
July 28
July 29
July 31 –
Oliver H. Prince , American politician (d.
1837 )
August
September
September 1
September 2 –
Myndert Van Schaick , American politician (d.
1865 )
September 3
September 5
September 6 –
Doxachi Hurmuzachi , ethnic Romanian boyar from the Duchy of Bukovina (d.
1857 )
September 7
September 8
September 9
September 10 –
John Ketcham , American politician (d.
1865 )
September 11
September 13 –
William Wood , Scottish surgeon (d.
1858 )
September 14 –
Christian Magnus Falsen , jurist, father of the Constitution of Norway and member of Stortinget (d.
1830 )
September 16
September 17 –
Christoph Hawich , German lithographer and painter (d.
1848 )
September 18 –
José Tomás Boves , Spanish general (d.
1815 )
September 19
September 20
September 22
September 23
September 24 –
William Symonds , British Royal Navy admiral (d.
1856 )
September 25
September 27 –
Thomas M. Nelson , American politician (d.
1853 )
September 28 –
George Smith , English architect and surveyor (d.
1869 )
September 29 –
Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl , British politician (d.
1850 )
October
October 3
October 4 –
James Wadmore , English art collector (d.
1853 )
October 6
October 7
October 8 –
Robert Lucas Chance , British glass maker (d.
1865 )
October 9
October 11
October 12
October 13 –
Joseph Nigg , Austrian artist (d.
1863 )
October 14 –
James Gilmour , Canadian businessman (d.
1858 )
October 15 –
James Elmes , English writer and architect (d.
1862 )
October 16
October 18
October 19 –
J. T. Wedgwood , British engraver (d.
1856 )
October 20 –
Christian Blom , Norwegian composer (d.
1861 )
October 24 –
William Norton Shinn , American politician (d.
1871 )
October 25
October 26
October 27 –
Niccolò Paganini , Italian violinist and composer (d.
1840 )
October 28 –
Henry Meigs , American politician (d.
1861 )
October 30 –
Lorenzo Maria of Saint Francis Xavier , Italian saint (d.
1856 )
November
December
December 2 –
Gerard Thomas Noel , British cleric (d.
1851 )
December 3
December 5
December 7
December 9 –
Waleria Tarnowska , Polish painter and art collector (d.
1849 )
December 10
December 11
December 12 –
Marie-Victoire Baudry , Canadian superior general (d.
1846 )
December 13 –
John Clitherow , British Army general (d.
1852 )
December 16
December 17 –
James Fullarton , Scottish soldier who fought in the Kandyan Wars (d.
1834 )
December 19 –
Julius Vincenz von Krombholz , Czech botanist, surgeon, doctor and mycologist (d.
1843 )
December 21
December 22 –
Jean Bélanger , Canadian politician (d.
1827 )
December 23
December 24
December 25
December 26 –
Philaret Drozdov , Russian bishop (d.
1867 )
December 27
December 28
December 29
December 30
December 31
Deaths
King
Taksin the Great of
Thonburi
William Crawford
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
Hyder Ali
January 2 –
Johann Christian Bach , German composer (b.
1735 )
January 4 –
Ange-Jacques Gabriel , French architect (b.
1698 )
January 18 –
John Pringle , Scottish physician (b.
1707 )
January 28 —
Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville , French geographer and cartographer (b.
1697 )
January 30 –
Vasily Dolgorukov-Krymsky , Russian general (b.
1722 )
February 9 –
Giuseppe Luigi Assemani , Syrian orientalist (b.
1710 )
February 10 –
Friedrich Christoph Oetinger , German theologian (b.
1702 )
March 1 –
John A. Treutlen , Governor of
Georgia (b.
1734 )
March 2 –
Sophie of France , French princess (b.1734)
March 9 –
Sava II Petrović-Njegoš ,
Metropolitan of Cetinje (b.
1702 )
March 17 –
Daniel Bernoulli , Dutch-born mathematical physicist (b.
1700 )
April 7 –
Taksin the Great ,
King of Siam (
Thonburi Kingdom ) (b.
1734 )
April 13 –
Metastasio , Italian poet, librettist (b.
1698 )
April 17 –
Baal Shem of London , British Kabbalist (b.
1708 )
April 22 –
Josef Seger , Czech composer and organist (b.
1716 )
April 28 –
William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot , English politician (b.
1710 )
May 8 –
Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal , Portuguese statesman (b.
1699 )
May 15 –
Richard Wilson , British painter (b.
1714 )
May 16 –
Daniel Solander , Swedish botanist (b.
1736 )
May 20 –
William Emerson , English mathematician (b.
1701 )
May 20 –
Axel Lagerbielke , Swedish admiral and statesman (b.
1703 )
May 22 –
Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt (b.
1752 )
June 11 –
William Crawford , American soldier and surveyor (burned at the stake by Native Americans) (b.
1732 )
June 18 –
John Wood, the Younger , English architect (b.
1728 )
June 21 –
Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt , German prince (b.
1722 )
July 1 –
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham , British statesman, 2-time
Prime Minister of Great Britain (b.
1730 )
[1]
July 15 –
Farinelli , Italian castrato (b.
1705 )
August 27 –
John Laurens , American soldier (b.
1754 )
August 31 –
George Croghan , American colonist (b. c.
1718 )
September 5 –
Bartolina Sisa , Bolivian indigenous Aymara heroine, rebel leader (b. c.
1750 )
September 6
September 14 –
Nicholas Cooke , first Governor of Rhode Island (b.
1717 )
October 2 –
Charles Lee ,
Continental Army general during the
American War of Independence (b.
1732 )
November 5 –
James Burrow , British scholar (b.
1701 )
November 21 –
Jacques de Vaucanson , French inventor (b.
1709 )
December 7 –
Hyder Ali , Indian general, Sultan of Mysore (b.
1720 )
December 16 –
William Cole (antiquary) , British antiquarian (b.
1714 )
December 27 –
Henry Home, Lord Kames , Scottish advocate and philosopher (b.
1697 )
date unknown
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