* 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 )

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 November 21, 1783, in Annonay, France, the first untethered manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d ' Arlandes in a hot air balloon created on December 14, 1782 by the Montgolfier brothers.

On November 4, 1782, taffeta was used by Joseph Montgolfier of France to construct a small, cube-shaped balloon.

Ross's heirs, the Lindsay brothers, sold the estate to Thomas Balfour in 1782.

She was born after the early deaths of her two elder brothers: Octavius ( 23 February 1779-3 May 1783 ) and Alfred ( 22 September 1780-20 August 1782 ).

The first permanent settlers following that era were the families of Pierre Bois and Joseph Richard, who arrived in 1782, although both brothers John and Paul Chiasson along with many other French settlers like the AuCoin family were believed to have predated Bois, Richard and Robin by over 100 years.

Basel was distinguished for its mathematicians, such as Leonhard Euler ( 1707 – 1783 ), and three members of the Bernoulli family, the brothers Jakob ( 1654 – 1705 ) and Johann ( 1667 – 1748 ), and the latter's son Daniel ( 1700 – 1782 ).

Basel was particularly distinguished for its mathematicians, such as Leonhard Euler ( 1707 – 1783 ), and three members of the Bernoulli family refugees from Antwerp, the brothers Jakob ( 1654 – 1705 ) and Johann ( 1667 – 1748 ), and the latter's son Daniel ( 1700 – 1782 ).

The first water caterpillar was developed by Desblancs in 1782 and propelled by a steam engine.

* 1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.

These types of integrals seem first to have attracted Laplace's attention in 1782 where he was following in the spirit of Euler in using the integrals themselves as solutions of equations.

The reverse of the medal has the motto taken from the Great Seal of the United States, "" (" He Has Favored Our Undertakings ") and the date "" ( 1782 ) which is the date of America's first decoration, the Badge of Military Merit, now known as the Purple Heart.

General Chakri succeeded him in 1782 as Rama I, the first king of the Chakri dynasty.

The first registering thermometer was designed and built by James Six in 1782, and the design, known as Six's thermometer is still in wide use today.

The first official acceptance of the Unitarian faith on the part of a congregation in America was by King's Chapel in Boston, which settled James Freeman ( 1759 – 1835 ) in 1782, and revised the Prayer Book into a mild Unitarian liturgy in 1785.

* 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 ).

** Nicholas Cooke, first Governor of Rhode Island ( d. 1782 )

The Banksia genus was first described and named by Carolus Linnaeus the Younger in his April 1782 publication Supplementum Plantarum ; hence the full name for the genus is " Banksia L. f ." The genus name honours the English botanist Sir Joseph Banks, who collected the first Banksia specimens in 1770, during James Cook's first expedition.

In France, where the term cercle is most usual, the first was Le Club Politique ( 1782 ), and during the French Revolution such associations proved important political forces ( see Jacobins, Feuillants, Cordeliers ).

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 originally appeared in Book VI of the first part ( finished in 1767, published in 1782 ) of Rousseau's putative autobiographical work, Les Confessions.

Joseph made his first definitive experiments in November 1782 while living in the city of Avignon.

The lifting force was so great that they lost control of their craft on its very first test flight on 14 December 1782.

However, the first use of the concept of Young's modulus in experiments was by Giordano Riccati in 1782 – predating Young by 25 years.

The Great Seal was first used publicly in 1782.

On June 13, 1782, the Congress turned to its Secretary Charles Thomson, and provided all material submitted by the first three committees.

It was first used by Thomson on September 16, 1782, to verify signatures on a document which authorized George Washington to negotiate an exchange of prisoners.

It was cut sometime between June and September, 1782 ( i. e. between the design being accepted and its first use ), although the exact date is not known.