* 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.

On March 14, 1782 he received the appointment of Superintendent General and Inspector General of Indian affairs.

Robert Morris, as Superintendent of Finance, helped to open the Bank of North America in 1782, and has been accordingly called by Thomas Goddard " the father of the system of credit and paper circulation in the United States.

Robert Morris, the Minister of Finance, persuaded Congress set up the Bank of North America, in 1782.

* April 21 – Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility ( b. 1782 )

* August 1 – Robert Morrison, Scottish Protestant missionary to China ( b. 1782 )

He worked for a time in Edinburgh and in 1782 he moved to London where ( after meeting architects Robert Adam and Sir William Chambers ) he was involved in building additions to Somerset House there.

Dr. Robert Morrison was born in 1782 and became a pastor at age 16, and establishing the school in Malacca.

* Charles Russell Lowell, Sr. ( 1782 – 1861 ), Unitarian pastor, son of The Old Judge, father of James Russell, and great-great grandfather of Robert Lowell

* Hughes Felicité Robert de Lamennais ( 1782 – 1854 ), priest, philosophical and political writer

Robert Burns published his own version in 1782, and modern versions abound.

The second son, Thomas Townshend ( 1701 – 1780 ), was member of parliament for the University of Cambridge from 1727 to 1774 ; his only son, Thomas Townshend ( 1733 – 1800 ), who was created Baron Sydney in 1783 and Viscount Sydney in 1789, was a secretary of state and Leader of the House of Commons from July 1782 to April 1783, and from December 1783 to June 1789 again a secretary of state, Sydney in New South Wales being named after him ; his grandson, John Robert Townshend ( 1805 – 1890 ), the 3rd viscount, was created Earl Sydney in 1874, the titles becoming extinct at his death.

She served 17 months in the army, as " Robert Shurtliff ", of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was wounded in 1782 and honorably discharged at West Point in 1783.

On May 20, 1782, she tried enlisting in the army time successfully enlisting in the army on the master of Master Noah Taft of Uxbridge, under the name of her deceased brother, Robert Shurtliff Sampson, and his / her residence as Uxbridge, Massachusetts.

In 1782 Robert Tunstall, son of the builder of the first bridge, obtained consent to replace the bridge and work began on 4 June 1783, the anniversary date of the first bridge opening to the public.

* Lord Robert Manners ( 1758 – 1782 )

Some of the early novels of Charles Robert Maturin ( 1782 – 1824 ) covered ground similar to that covered by Edgeworth.

* Peter Robert Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby, 2nd Baron Gwydyr ( 1782 – 1865 )

Women were not allowed to join the army, but in 1782 Deborah disguised herself as a man and joined the 4th Massachusetts Regiment, going by the name of Robert Shurtliff of Uxbridge and soon saw action in the front lines against the British.

* June 24: Robert Monckton, army officer and colonial administrator ( died 1782 )

* Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet ( 1782 – 1863 )

Lord Westmorland married Sarah Anne Child ( 28 August 1764-9 November 1793 ), the only daughter and heiress of wealthy banker, Robert Child, against her father's wishes, at Gretna Green on 20 May 1782.

Robert Morrison ( 1782 – 1834 ) in his Chinese dictionary ( 1819 ) as one of the seven sorts of black tea " commonly known by Europeans ".

* Robert Williams ( hymn-writer ) ( 1782 – 1818 ), blind hymn-writer from Anglesey

* Robert Kingston ( 27 February 1781 – 1782 )

* Robert Morrison ( missionary ) ( 1782 – 1834 ), first Protestant missionary to China in 1807