1782

– The first American commercial bank (Bank of North America) opens.

– Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the United States Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.

– 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 thread and cotton mills.

– The Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.

– Singu Min is overthrown as king of Myanmar by his cousin Phaungka Min and 8 days later will be executed by his uncle Bodawpayar.

– 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.

– The British House of Commons votes against further war in America, paving the way for the Second Rockingham ministry and the Peace of Paris.

– Gnadenhutten massacre: In Ohio, 29 Native American men, 27 women, and 34 children are killed by colonial militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by another Native American group.

– Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.

– Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain.^[1]

(Easter Sunday) – Mission San Buenaventura is founded in Las Californias, part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

– John Bell, British army officer (d. 1876)

January 2

January 3

– Robert Morrison, British evangelist and first Protestant missionary in China (d. 1834)

January 8

– Benning M. Bean, American politician (d. 1866)

– Jean Laforgue, French scholar (d. 1852)

– Martin Flint, American politician (d. 1855)

– Robert Aspland, English Unitarian minister (d. 1845)

January 14

January 15

January 18

January 19

January 20

January 21

January 22

– José Francisco Bermúdez, Venezuelan revolutionary (d. 1831)

– Charles K. Williams, American politician (d. 1853)

– Johann Michael Ackner, Austrian archaeologist (d. 1862)

January 26

January 27

January 29

January 30

– Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735)

– Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (b. 1698)

– John Pringle, Scottish physician (b. 1707)

— Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer and cartographer (b. 1697)

– Vasily Dolgorukov-Krymsky, Russian general (b. 1722)

– Giuseppe Luigi Assemani, Syrian orientalist (b. 1710)

– Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)

– John A. Treutlen, Governor of Georgia (b. 1734)

– Sophie of France, French princess (b.1734)

– Sava II Petrović-Njegoš, Metropolitan of Cetinje (b. 1702)

– Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematical physicist (b. 1700)

– Taksin the Great, King of Siam (Thonburi Kingdom) (b. 1734)

– Metastasio, Italian poet, librettist (b. 1698)

– Baal Shem of London, British Kabbalist (b. 1708)

– Josef Seger, Czech composer and organist (b. 1716)

– William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (b. 1710)

– Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese statesman (b. 1699)

– Richard Wilson, British painter (b. 1714)

– Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)

– William Emerson, English mathematician (b. 1701)

– Axel Lagerbielke, Swedish admiral and statesman (b. 1703)

– Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1752)

– William Crawford, American soldier and surveyor (burned at the stake by Native Americans) (b. 1732)

– John Wood, the Younger, English architect (b. 1728)

– Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, German prince (b. 1722)

– Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, British statesman, 2-time Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1730)^[1]

– Farinelli, Italian castrato (b. 1705)

– John Laurens, American soldier (b. 1754)

– George Croghan, American colonist (b. c. 1718)

– Bartolina Sisa, Bolivian indigenous Aymara heroine, rebel leader (b. c. 1750)

September 6

– Nicholas Cooke, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1717)

– Charles Lee, Continental Army general during the American War of Independence (b. 1732)

– James Burrow, British scholar (b. 1701)

– Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (b. 1709)

– Hyder Ali, Indian general, Sultan of Mysore (b. 1720)

– William Cole (antiquary), British antiquarian (b. 1714)

– Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish advocate and philosopher (b. 1697)

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; J. Willoughby Rosse (1856). "1782". Blair's Chronological Tables. London: H.G. Bohn. hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t6349vh5n – via Hathi Trust.