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.
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March 8 : Gnadenhutten massacre of 96 pacifist Christian Indians carried out by Pennsylvania militia
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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]
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.
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
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 )
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 )[12]
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 )
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 )
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
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 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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