1782 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1782?
- January 3, 1782 – Sylhet District in north-east Bangladesh is established
- January 5, 1782 – American Revolutionary War: French troops begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts.
- January 7, 1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
- January 15, 1782 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
- February 5, 1782 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
- March 8, 1782 – Gnadenhütten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
- March 14, 1782 – Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
- March 16, 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
- March 27, 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- April 6, 1782 – Rama I of Siam (modern day Thailand) founds the Chakri dynasty.
- April 9, 1782 – American War of Independence: Battle of the Saintes begins.
- April 19, 1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic’s recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
- June 20, 1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
- July 1, 1782 – American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
- July 16, 1782 – First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
- August 7, 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
- August 19, 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks – the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
- September 13, 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful “grand assault” during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
- November 30, 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris – In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
- December 14, 1782 – The Montgolfier brothers’ first balloon lifts off on its first test flight.
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