Editing 1782 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 7]] &ndash; The first American [[commercial bank]] ([[Bank of North America]]) opens.
* [[January 15]] &ndash; Superintendent of Finance [[Robert Morris (financier)|Robert Morris]] goes before the [[United States Congress]] to recommend establishment of a national [[mint (facility)|mint]] and decimal coinage.
* [[January 23]] &ndash; 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 [[Yarn|thread]] and [[cotton mill]]s.
* [[February 5]] &ndash; The Spanish defeat British forces and [[Invasion of Minorca (1781)|capture Menorca]].
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Singu Min]] is overthrown as king of Myanmar by his cousin [[Phaungka Min]] and 8 days later will be executed by his uncle [[Bodawpaya]]r.
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; The British House of Commons [[American Revolutionary War#North Ministry collapses|votes against further war in America]], paving the way for the [[Second Rockingham ministry]] and the [[Peace of Paris (1783)|Peace of Paris]].
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Gnadenhutten massacre]]: In [[Ohio]], 29 [[Native Americans in the United States|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]] &ndash; [[Battle of Wuchale]]: Emperor [[Tekle Giyorgis I|Tekle Giyorgis]] pacifies a group of [[Oromo people|Oromo]] near [[Wuchale]].
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham]] becomes [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]].<ref name=Watson-Wentworth>{{cite web |title=History of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham - GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/charles-watson-wentworth-2nd-marquess-of-rockingham |website=www.gov.uk |access-date=1 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 31]] ([[Easter Sunday]]) &ndash; [[Mission San Buenaventura]] is founded in [[The Californias|Las Californias]], part of the [[Viceroyalty of New Spain]].

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Rama I]] overthrows King [[Taksin]] of [[Thonburi Kingdom|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]].
[[File:The battle of the Saints 12 avril 1782.jpg|thumb|right|[[April 12]]: [[Battle of the Saintes]].]]
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Battle of the Saintes]]: A British fleet under [[George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney|Admiral Sir George Rodney]] defeats a French fleet under the [[Comte de Grasse]], in the [[West Indies]].
* [[April 19]] &ndash; [[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 [[guilder]]s, financed by [[Nicolaas van Staphorst]] and [[Wilhelm Willink]].
* [[April 21]] &ndash; 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]] &ndash; The Parliament of Great Britain passes the [[Repeal of Act for Securing Dependence of Ireland Act 1782|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]].<ref name="Costin">{{cite book|title=The Law and Working of the Constitution: Documents 1660-1914|editor=Costin, W. C. |editor2=Watson, J. Steven|location=London|publisher=A. & C. Black|year=1952|volume=I (1660-1783)|page=147}}</ref><ref name="Cassell's Chronology334335">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/334|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/334 334–335]}}</ref>
* [[June 18]] &ndash; In Switzerland, [[Anna Göldi]] is sentenced to death for [[witchcraft]] (the last legal witchcraft sentence).
* [[June 20]] &ndash; The [[Bald eagle#National bird of the United States|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]].<ref name="Harper">''Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909'', ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p167</ref>

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July]] &ndash; [[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor]], receives a visit from [[Pope Pius VI]].
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Raid on Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (1782)|Raid on Lunenburg]]: American [[privateer]]s attack the British settlement at [[Lunenburg, Nova Scotia]].
* [[July 16]]&ndash;[[August 29]] &ndash; The Masonic Congress of Wilhelmsbad, [[Germany]], one of history's most important ever secret society congresses, 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/2015/07/06/masonic-congress-of-wilhelmsbad/|title=Masonic Congress of Wilhelmsbad|first=Terry|last=Melanson}}</ref>
* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; 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&ndash;December ===
* [[October 10]] &ndash; 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''.<ref>"Drury-Lane Theatre, 1809", in ''The Nic-nac; or, Oracle of Knowledge'' (November 15, 1823) p393</ref>
* [[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.<ref>William T. Hutchinson, et al., eds. ''Correspondence of Edmund Burke'' (University of Chicago Press, 1970) p242</ref>
** [[John Adams]] returns to [[Paris]] as the first United States Minister to France.<ref>Charles Francis Adams, ''The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States'', Volume 1 (Little, Brown and Company, 1856) p354</ref>
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Elias Boudinot]] of New Jersey is elected the new President of the Congress of the Confederation.<ref name="Harper"/>
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[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 (1783)|Treaty of Paris]]).
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Action of 12 December 1782]]: A naval engagement off [[Ferrol, Spain]], in which the British ship {{HMS|Mediator|1782|6}} commanded by [[James Luttrell]] successfully attacks a convoy of French and American ships attempting to supply the United States.
* [[December 14]] &ndash; The [[Montgolfier brothers]] first test fly a [[hot air balloon]] in France; it floats nearly {{convert|2|km|mi|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite book|first=Charles Coulston|last=Gillispie|title=The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783-1784|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=1983|isbn=0-691-08321-5|page=21}}</ref>
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[East India Company]]: Hada and Mada Miah lead a rebellion in the [[Indian subcontinent]] against [[East India Company]] officer [[Robert Lindsay (Sylhet)|Robert Lindsay]] and his [[Presidency armies|troops]] in [[Sylhet Shahi Eidgah]].<ref name="shirsha">{{cite news|last=Ahmed|first=M Shamim|url=https://www.sheershakhobor.com/sylhet-news/2018/06/12/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%80-%E0%A6%88%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9-%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE/|title=সিলেটের শাহী ঈদগাহ ইতিহাস ঐতিহ্য|location=Sylhet|publisher=Sheersha Khobor|date=12 June 2018|language=bn|access-date=1 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402194508/https://www.sheershakhobor.com/sylhet-news/2018/06/12/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%80-%E0%A6%88%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9-%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE/|archive-date=April 2, 2019|url-status=usurped}}</ref>
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* Chief [[Kamehameha I of Hawaii]] gains control of the northern part of the [[island of Hawaii]], after [[Battle of Mokuohai|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 [[Bow Street Foot Patrols|Foot Patrol]] for public security.
* The [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|British Parliament]] extends [[James Watt]]'s patent for the [[Watt steam engine|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]], [[Russian Empire|Russia]] has 300,000 inhabitants.
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