* 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 )

* 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.

By the 18th century, however, Geneva had come under the influence of Catholic France, which cultivated the city elite, who tended to be at odds with the ordinary townsfolk – to the point that an abortive revolution took place in 1782.

The Chinatown centered on Yaowarat Road in Bangkok, Thailand, was founded at the same time as the city itself, in 1782.

Daniel Webster was born on January 18, 1782, to Ebenezer and Abigail Webster ( née Eastman ) in Salisbury, New Hampshire, the present-day city of Franklin.

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

Richmond recovered quickly from the war, and by 1782 was once again a thriving city.

It was the French who developed this town and made it their capital city when they captured the colony in 1782.

The British retained control of the city until December 1782.

* Daniel Webster, US congressman and senator from Massachusetts ; 14th and 19th US Secretary of State ; born in 1782 in what was then part of Salisbury, now within the city limits of Franklin

In 1782 the Austrian emperor Joseph II ordered parts of the walls torn down, making it easy for the French to take over the city during the first coalition war in 1794.

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.

He was evacuated from Charleston, South Carolina in 1782 when the British forces abandoned the city.

William Cowper addressed the artificiality of the fast paced city life in his poems Retirement ( 1782 ) and The Winter Nosegay ( 1782 ).

New York's Flatiron Building was not the first building of its triangular ground-plan: aside from a possibly unique triangular Roman temple built on a similarly constricted site in the city of Verulamium, Britannia, the Maryland Inn in Annapolis ( 1782 ), the Gooderham Building of Toronto ( 1892 ), and the English-American Building in Atlanta ( 1897 ) predate it.

A formal concept of the city was laid out by his son, Sarfraz Khan in 1782.

In 1782, Bentham travelled along the Siberian route to China, visiting Kyakhta and its Chinese pendant Naimatchin, and then spending over a month at the border fluvial city of Nerchinsk, where he was able to study Chinese ship designs, particularly those of junks.

After acting as assistant in pharmacies at Quedlinburg, Hanover, Berlin and Danzig successively he came to Berlin on the death of Valentin Rose the Elder in 1771 as manager of his business, and in 1780 he started an establishment on his own account in the same city, where from 1782 he was pharmaceutical assessor of the Ober-Collegium Medicum.

Burmese King Bodawpaya ( 1782 – 1819 ) rebuilt Bago, but by then the river had shifted course, cutting the city off from the sea.

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.

Washington College evolved from the Kent County Free School, an institution of more than 60 years ’ standing in “ Chester Town ,” which by the college ’ s founding date of 1782 had reached considerable strength and importance as a port city.

Ryki received its city charter in 1782 but lost it in 1810.

In 1782 Guardi was commissioned by the Venetian government six canvases to celebrate the visit of the Russian Archdukes in the city, of which only two remain, and two others for that of Pope Pius VI.

The Wiener Zeitung newspaper of 29 June 1782 carried a report from Fiume that, “ in the early days of this month, Mr. von Bolts, Director of the Triestine East India Company, together with the English captain, Mr. Digson, arrived in this city ”.

By 1782, the city population was 2, 194.