1782

Years: 1779 1780 1781 - 1782 - 1783 1784 1785
Decades: 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

1782 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).

Events

January 7 - The first American commercial bank opens (Bank of North America).
January 15 - Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage
February 5 - Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
March 8 - In Ohio the Gnadenhutten massacre of Native Americans takes place in which 29 men, 27 women, and 34 children were killed by white militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by another Native American group.
April 6 - Rama I succeeded King Taksin of Thailand who was overthrown in an coup d'etat.
April 12 - A British fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a French fleet under the Comte de Grasse at the Battle of the Saintes in the West Indies.
June 18 – In Switzerland, Anna Goldi in sentenced to death for witchcraft – the last legal witchcraft sentence
August 7 - 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".
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).

London creates Foot Patrol for public security
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries try to cross the English Channel with a hot-air balloon
British parliament extends James Watt's copyright for the steam engine to the year 1800

January 1 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735)
January 4 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (b. 1698)
March 17 - Daniel Bernoulli, mathematical physicist (b. 1700)
April 12 - Metastasio, pseudonym of Pietro Armando Dominico Trapassi, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1698)
May 15 - Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese prime minister (b. 1699)
May 16 - Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
May - Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (b. 1714)
July 1 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, British Whig politician and prime minister (b. 1730)
September 6 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
December 27 - Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish advocate and philosopher (b. 1697)
Giovannini , Italian composer
Hyder Ali, Indian general, sultan of Mysore