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1782
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 27 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain.
- March 31 (Easter Sunday) – Mission San Buenaventura is founded in Las Californias, part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
April–June
- April 6 – Rama I overthrows King Taksin of Siam (now Thailand) in a coup d'état, and moves the political capital from Thonburi, across the Chao Phraya River to Rattanakosin Island, the historic center of Bangkok.
- 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.
- 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.
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 the most important secret society congresses in history, 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.
- July 16 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail premieres at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
- August 7
- George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit (or the Order of the Purple Heart) to honor soldiers' merit in battle (reinstated later by Franklin D. Roosevelt, and renamed to the more poetic "Purple Heart", to honor soldiers wounded in action).
- Étienne Maurice Falconet's Bronze Horseman statue of Tsar Peter the Great is unveiled in Saint Petersburg.
- August 19 – A combined British and Native American force defeat Kentucky militiamen in the Battle of Blue Licks in the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War.
October–December
- October 10 – Welsh actress Sarah Siddons, the pre-eminent star of the English stage, makes a triumphant return to the theatre in the title role of David Garrick's new play, Isabella, or The Fatal Marriage.
- October 18
- The first franking privilege is granted for official correspondence to be sent at no charge to and from members of the Confederation Congress, at government expense, during periods when the Congress is in session.
- John Adams returns to Paris as the first United States Minister to France.
- November 4 – Elias Boudinot of New Jersey is elected the new President of the Congress of the Confederation.
- November 30 – American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized in the Treaty of Paris).
- December 12 – American Revolutionary War: Action of 12 December 1782: A naval engagement off Ferrol, Spain, in which the British ship commanded by James Luttrell successfully attacks a convoy of French and American ships attempting to supply the United States.
- December 14 – The Montgolfier brothers first test fly a hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2 km.
- December 16 – East India Company: Hada and Mada Miah lead a rebellion in the Indian subcontinent against East India Company officer Robert Lindsay and his troops in Sylhet Shahi Eidgah.
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
January
- January 1 – John Bell, British army officer (d. 1876)
- January 2
- January 3
- January 5 – Robert Morrison, British evangelist and first Protestant missionary in China (d. 1834)
- January 8
- January 9 – Benning M. Bean, American politician (d. 1866)
- January 11 – Jean Laforgue, French scholar (d. 1852)
- January 12 – Martin Flint, American politician (d. 1855)
- January 13 – Robert Aspland, English Unitarian minister (d. 1845)
- January 14
- January 15
- January 18
- January 19
- January 20
- January 21
- January 22
- January 23 – José Francisco Bermúdez, Venezuelan revolutionary (d. 1831)
- January 24 – Charles K. Williams, American politician (d. 1853)
- January 25 – Johann Michael Ackner, Austrian archaeologist (d. 1862)
- January 26
- January 27
- January 29
- January 30
February
- February 1 – Bill Johnston, American pirate (d. 1870)
- February 2
- 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
- March 1 – Suzanne le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, French noblewoman (d. 1829)
- March 2
- March 3
- March 4
- March 5 – Wacław Hański, Polish noble (d. 1841)
- March 6
- March 7
- March 8 – Nicoll Halsey, American politician (d. 1865)
- March 9 – Jean-François Boch, Luxembourgish industrialist and politician (d. 1858)
- March 10
- March 13
- March 14
- March 16
- March 17
- March 18
- March 19
- March 20 – James Tod, English officer of the British East India Company, oriental scholar (d. 1835)
- March 21 – Józef Goldtmann, Polish priest (d. 1852)
- March 22 – James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale, British barrister and judge (d. 1868)
- March 23
- March 24
- March 25
- March 26
- March 29
- March 31
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)
- 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
- Medora Gordon Byron, British Romantic novelist (d. 1858)
- Joseph Drechsler, Czech conductor, music educator, composer and organist (d. 1852)
- Erasmo Seguín, head postmaster of San Antonio, Texas (d. 1857)
- George Small, Scottish piano manufacturer (d. 1861)
- Sir George Strickland, 7th Baronet, British politician (d. 1874)
- 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
- August 1
- August 2 – Johannes van Hooydonk, Dutch Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop (d. 1868)
- August 4 – John Kerr, member of the US House of Representatives (d. 1842)
- August 6 – William Spencer, American judge and politician (d. 1871)
- August 10
- August 12 – Ole Johansen Winstrup, Danish engineer and inventor (d. 1867)
- August 13 – Conrad Ten Eyck, American politician (d. 1847)
- August 15
- Carlo Brioschi, Italian astronomer (d. 1833)
- James Smith of Jordanhill, Scottish merchant, geologist and biblical critic (d. 1867)
- Charles Lowell, United States Unitarian minister (d. 1861)
- Henri de Merode, member of the Belgian Senate and writer (d. 1847)
- Faustin Soulouque, President and emperor of Haiti (d. 1867)
- August 16 – Elderkin Potter, American politician and lawyer (d. 1845)
- August 17
- August 18
- August 20
- August 23 – David Hudson, American politician (d. 1860)
- August 25
- August 28
- August 29
- August 30 – Christian of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken, Bavarian general (d. 1859)
- August 31
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
- November 1
- November 2 – Eustoquio Díaz Vélez, Spanish-Argentine general (d. 1856)
- November 3 – Lewis Warrington, United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1851)
- November 4
- November 6 – Maha Bandula, Burmese general (d. 1825)
- November 7
- November 11
- November 12
- November 13
- November 16
- November 17 – Conrad Graf, German piano maker (d. 1851)
- November 19 – John McCarty, American politician (d. 1851)
- November 20
- November 21 – William Tippet, Anglo-Indian Judge and Magistrate (d. 1824)
- November 22
- November 25
- November 26
- November 28 – John R. Drake, American politician (d. 1857)
- November 29 – Henry Walton Ellis, British Army officer (d. 1815)
- November 30 – Giuseppe Moretti, Italian botanist (d. 1853)
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
- 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)
- 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 11–William Beadle, Anglo-American merchant (b. 1730)
- 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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