Editing 1782 (section)

=== 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]].