1782 Calendar
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1782 Historical Event(s)
February 5, 1782
– Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
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.
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.
Who Were Born On 1782?
March 13, 1782
– Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility (d.1863)
March 18, 1782
– John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
March 24, 1782
– Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)
June 24, 1782
– Juan Larrea, Argentine businessman, member of the Primera Junta (d. 1847)
July 6, 1782
– Maria Luisa of Spain, Duchess of Lucca and Queen of Etruria (d. 1824)
July 26, 1782
– John Field, Irish composer (d. 1837)
October 27, 1782
– Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
November 1, 1782
– Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, British statesman (d. 1859)
November 13, 1782
– Esaias Tegnér, Swedish writer, professor of Greek language, and bishop (d. 1846)
December 5, 1782
– Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (d. 1862)