* 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 – 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.

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.

* 1782 – John Field, Irish composer ( d. 1837 )

* 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.

* 1782 – John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1850 )

* 1782 – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, British statesman ( d. 1859 )

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.

* January 28 – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1782 )

* April 10 – John Pringle, Scottish physician ( d. 1782 )

* February 25 – John Wood, the Younger, English architect ( d. 1782 )

* January 23 – John Field, Irish composer ( b. 1782 )

* March 31 – John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States ( b. 1782 )

The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782, by John Singleton Copley

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.

John Eager Howard in Uniform, painted in 1782 by Charles Willson Peale

* 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.