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* 1782 – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, British statesman ( d. 1859 )
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* 1782 – King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke ( Rama I ) of Siam ( modern day Thailand ) founded the Chakri dynasty.
* 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 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government.
* 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.
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.
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* January 28 – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1782 )
His grandfather Frederick Frelinghuysen ( 1753 – 1804 ) was an eminent lawyer, one of the framers of the first New Jersey Constitution, a soldier in the American Revolutionary War and a member ( 1778 – 1779 and 1782 – 1783 ) of the Continental Congress from New Jersey, and from 1793 to 1796 a member of the United States Senate.
It was named for Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford, father of Frederick North, Lord North, British Prime Minister from 1770 to 1782.
Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, KG, PC ( 13 April 1732 – 5 August 1792 ), more often known by his courtesy title, Lord North, which he used from 1752 until 1790, was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782.
Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon PC ( 1 November 1782 – 28 January 1859 ), styled The Honourable F. J. Robinson until 1827 and known as The Viscount Goderich
Having assumed the additional name of Bathurst, Felton's grandson, Felton Elwell Hervey-Bathurst ( 1782 – 1819 ), was created a baronet in 1818, and on his death a year later the title descended to his brother, Frederick Anne Hervey-Bathurst ( 1783 – 1824 ).
* Louisa Ulrika of Prussia ( 1720 – 1782 ), daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and wife of Adolf Frederick of Sweden
# Leopoldine Marie ( Oranienbaum, 12 December 1716 – Kolberg, 27 January 1782 ), married on 13 February 1739 to Frederick Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt.
This work, sandwiched between the six quartets he dedicated to Joseph Haydn ( 1782 – 5 ) and the following three Prussian Quartets ( 1789 – 90 ), intended to be dedicated to King Frederick William II of Prussia ( the first edition bore no dedication, however ), is often polyphonic in a way uncharacteristic of the earlier part of the classical music era.
In 1782, at Frederick the Great's invitation, he went to Berlin, where he remained for many years, in the course of which he published his Vie et régne de Frédéric II ( Berlin, 1788 ) and La Prusse littéraire sous Frédéric II ( 3 vols., Berlin, 1790 – 1791 ).
* Marie ( September 7, 1782 – April 29, 1808 ) married on November 1, 1802 Duke Frederick William of Brunswick ( October 9, 1771 – June 16, 1815 ).
On 1 November 1802, in Karlsruhe, Frederick William married Princess Marie Elisabeth of Baden ( 7 September 1782 Karlsruhe – 20 April 1808 Bruchsal ), daughter of Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden.
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The earliest known use of an expert witness in English law came in 1782, when a court that was hearing litigation relating to the silting-up of Wells harbour in Norfolk accepted evidence from a leading civil engineer, John Smeaton.
John Adams served as an American envoy to France from 1778 until 1779 and to the Netherlands from 1780 until 1782, and the younger Adams accompanied his father on these journeys.
* Thomas, Douglas H. John Hanson, President of the United States in Congress Assembled, 1781 – 1782.
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.
Cowper is best known, not just for his contribution to the Olney Hymns, but as a poet, letter-writer, and translator: his works include The Diverting History of John Gilpin ( 1782 ), The Task ( 1785 ) and his translation of Homer, published in 1791.
# Francis Lightfoot Lee II ( 1782 – 1850 ), who married Jane Fitzgerald ( died 1816 ), daughter of Col. John Fitzgerald and Jane Digges.
Attempts by governor John Skottowe ( 1764 – 1782 ) to regularise the sale of arrack and punch led to some hostility and desertions by a number of troops who stole boats and were probably mostly lost at sea — however, at least one group of seven soldiers and a slave succeeded in escaping to Brazil in 1770.
The tune again was possibly based on the old melody of " Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself ", composed by John Field ( 1782 – 1837 ) sometime before 1812.
* Wiltse, Charles M. John C. Calhoun, Nationalist, 1782 – 1828 ( 1944 ) ISBN 0-8462-1041-X ; John C. Calhoun, Nullifier, 1829 – 1839 ( 1948 ); John C. Calhoun, Sectionalist, 1840 – 1859 ( 1951 ); the standard scholarly biography
* 1782 — John Goodricke notices that the brightness variations of Algol are periodic and proposes that it is partially eclipsed by a body moving around it
After two more years, Congress formed a third committee on May 4, 1782, this time consisting of John Rutledge, Arthur Middleton, and Elias Boudinot.
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.
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