* 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.

* 1782 – Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.

The well-known English Masonic writer, Dr. George Oliver ( 1782 – 1867 ), in his " Historical Landmarks ", 1846, carried the story forward and even claimed that King Charles II was active in his attendance at meetings — an obvious invention, for if it had been true, it would not have escaped the notice of the historians of the time.

In 1782, he was appointed " The King ’ s Astronomer " ( not to be confused with the Astronomer Royal ).

* April 6 – first New Year's Day of the solar calendar adopted by Siamese King Chulalongkorn with the 106th anniversary of Bangkok's founding in 1782 as its epoch ( reference date ).

* In Thailand in 1888 King Chulalongkorn decreed a National Thai Era dating from the founding of Bangkok on April 6, 1782.

From 1761 he held the unofficial post of Joint Architect to the King, he was then promoted to his first official post in the Office of Works and was from 1769-1782 Comptroller of the King's Works, his final promotion put him in charge, from 1782 being Surveyor-General and Comptroller a post he kept until his death.

The dynasty has ruled Thailand since the founding of the Ratthanakosin era and the city of Bangkok in 1782 following the end of King Taksin of Thonburi's reign, when the capital of Siam shifted to Bangkok.

The epic stories formed the basic information to draw the paintings during the reign of King Rama I ( 1782 – 1809 ).

* Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand from 1782 to 1809

In 1782, King Rama I ordered Nanthasen to take his father's place, and he ruled until 1793.

He ascended the throne in 1782, after defeating a rebellion which had deposed King Taksin of Thonburi.

It was capital of Thailand from 1767 to 1782, during the reign of King Taksin, after the previous capital Ayutthaya was sacked by the Burmese.

King Rama I moved the capital to Bangkok in 1782.

Taksin ( Royal Institute: Somdet Phra Chao Taksin Maharat ; or The King of the Thonburi Kingdom ; ; ; Teochew: Dên Chao ; Vietnamese: Trịnh Quốc Anh ) ( April 17, 1734 – April 7, 1782 ) was the only King of the Thonburi Kingdom.

At this juncture he was instructed by the new Burmese King, Singun Min or Chingkucha ( 1776 – 1782 ) to evacuate Thai territory.

A parliament that, though Protestant establishment in membership and loyal to the Crown, in 1782 produced the first real attempt at Irish independence, achieving the ' Constitution of 1782 ' that stressed its loyalty to the King by virtue of his Irish, not British Crown.

In a particular irony, Sinn Féin, which as a republican party fought for Irish independence during the Anglo-Irish War, was founded by a man, Arthur Griffith, who sought to restore the King, Lords and Commons of Ireland and the 1782 constitution to the centre of Irish governance, and the College Green Houses of Parliament to its position as the home of an Irish parliament.

In 1778 he took a silver medal for drawing from life, and in 1782 the Academy ’ s highest award, the gold medal for historical painting, his subject being King Lear.

The legendary history of this Buddha image is traced to India, five centuries after the Lord Buddha attained Nirvana, till it was finally enshrined in Bangkok at the Wat Phra Kaew temple in 1782 during Rama I's reign ( 1782 – 1809 ).

Construction of the palace began on 6 May 1782, at the order of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke ( Rama I ), the founder of the Chakri Dynasty, when he moved the capital city from Thonburi to Bangkok.

In 1782, his father crowned himself King of Siam ( later named Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke ) and Chim himself was raised to the title of Prince Isarasundhorn of Siam.

Made of gold in the reign of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke or Rama I in 1782, it is 66 centimeters high and weighs 7. 3 kg, and enamelled in red and green.