* 1782 – King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke ( Rama I ) of Siam ( modern day Thailand ) founded the Chakri dynasty.

* 1714 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter ( d. 1782 )

* 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle.

* 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 Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.

* 1782 – American War of Independence: Battle of the Saintes begins.

* 1734 – Taksin, King of Thailand ( d. 1782 )

* 1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government.

* 1782 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician ( b. 1710 )

* 1782 – The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.

* 1863 – Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility ( b. 1782 )

* 1782 – Taksin, King of Thailand ( b. 1734 )

# Maria Annunziata Caroline Bonaparte ( 1782 – 1839 ) married Joachim Murat, Marshal of France

* 1782 – Martin Van Buren, President of the United States ( d. 1862 )

* 1782 – Filaret Drozdov, Metropolitan of Moscow ( d. 1867 )

* 1782 – The Montgolfier brothers ' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight.

In 1782, Mary Sr ( the governess ) married Joseph Day ( 1745 – 1811 ), a Birmingham merchant, and moved away.

In 1782 Antoine Beauvilliers, pastry chef to the future Louis XVIII, opened one of the most popular restaurants of the time – the Grande Taverne de Londres – in the arcades of the Palais-Royal.

* 1709 – Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor ( d. 1782 )

* 1732 – Charles Lee, British-born American Revolutionary War figure ( d. 1782 )

* 1782 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.

* 1782 – Henri de Rigny, French admiral and statesman ( d. 1835 )

* 1782 – Joseph Aloysius Assemani, Lebanese orientalist ( b. 1710 )

The French army and navy departed, so the Americans were on their own in 1782 – 83.

However it was also in France that a new form of printing developed, the Bibliothèque bleue, and many grimoires published through this circulated amongst an ever-growing percentage of the populace, in particular the Grand Albert, the Petit Albert ( 1782 ), the Grimoire du Pape Honorious and the Enchiridion Leonis Papae.

The society also lost several major figures over the period: Richard Lovell Edgeworth ceased regular involvement in the society's activities when he returned to Ireland in 1782, John Whitehurst died in London in 1788, and Thomas Day died the following year.

He also fought with Lord Howe at Gibraltar in 1782.

American privateers not only fought naval battles but also raided numerous communities in British colonies, such as the Raid on Lunenburg, Nova Scotia ( 1782 ).

The 1782 Instructions also established separate governing councils for North and South Greenland.

Serra was also present at the founding of the Presidio of Santa Barbara on April 21, 1782, but was prevented from locating the mission there because of the animosity of Governor Felipe de Neve.

Leopold was also strongly opposed to Wolfgang's marriage to Constanze Weber in 1782, and gave his permission late, reluctantly, and under duress.

In 1782, according to the tax list, Henry owned 64 slaves, his son-in-law John Fontaine owned 18 ( he and Henry's daughter were living there as well ), and his cousin's husband George Waller also owned 18 slaves, making 100 total among the three men.

Between 1780 and 1782 he built his own palace there, the Wallmodenschloss ( also called Wallmodenpalais ) to house his antiquities collection.

The British government also made overtures to the Dutch to come to a speedy conclusion of hostilities, especially after the Cabinet of Lord North had been replaced by that of Rockingham and Fox in March, 1782.

( During the American Revolutionary War, in 1782 Pennsylvania militia raided another Moravian mission village, also called Gnadenhutten, in present-day Ohio.

He was a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1782 until 1783, and also from 1785 until 1787, serving as its president for five months from June 6 to November 5, 1786 after the resignation of John Hancock.

William Emerson ( 14 May 1701 – 20 May 1782 ), English mathematician, was born at Hurworth, near Darlington, where his father, Dudley Emerson, also a mathematician, taught a school.

* 1782 ( Tenmei 2 ): An analysis of silver currency in China and Japan " Sin sen sen pou ( Sin tchuan phou )" was presented to the emperor by Kutsuki Masatsuna ( 1750 – 1802 ), also known as Kutsuki Oki-no kami Minamoto-no Masatsuna, hereditary daimyo of Oki and Ōmi with holdings in Tamba and Fukuchiyama – related note at Tenmei 7 below.

He stayed at Kassel till 1783, publishing in 1782 his Reisen der Päpste, a book wherein certain leanings towards Romanism are visible, also his distrust of emperor Joseph II's hegemonial politics.

He published a series of German translations of the principal English writers on aesthetics, such as Charles Burney, Joseph Priestley and Richard Hurd ; and also produced the first complete translation in German prose of Shakespeare's plays ( William Shakespear's Schauspiele, 13 vols., Zürich, 1775 – 1782 ).

His brother-in-law, James Clitherow, also published two volumes of his law reports which added £ 1, 287 to the estate, and in 1782 the Biographical History of Sir William Blackstone appeared.

He also assisted Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, as draughtsman, in his mechanical researches and experiments ; and, this gentleman having generously offered the painter a loan to enable him to pursue his studies abroad, he left in 1782 for Italy, where he remained two years.

The death of Cato ( La mort de Caton d ' Utique ) was also a popular theme in revolutionary France, being sculpted by Philippe-Laurent Roland ( 1782 ) and painted by Bouchet Louis André Gabriel, Bouillon Pierre, and Guérin Pierre Narcisse in 1797.

* 1782 – 1790: Yves-Alexandre de Marbeuf ( also bishop of Autun, later archbishop of Lyon )

The first President was Elias Boudinot, who was also President of the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1783 and later Director of the U. S. Mint.

James Hardiman ( 1782 – 1855 ), also known as Séamus Ó hArgadáin, was a librarian at Queen's College, Galway.

After his resignation from the Continental Army, Wilkinson reluctantly became a brigadier general in the Pennsylvania militia in 1782 and also a state assemblyman in 1783, due to the wishes of George Washington.

; The Lifted Curtain or Laura's Education, about a young girl's sexual initiation by her father, written by the French revolutionary politician Comte de Mirabeau ; also Les Liaisons dangereuses ( Dangerous Liaisons ) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in 1782.