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* 1782: Badge of Military Merit: The first formal system for rewarding acts of individual gallantry by American soldiers was established by George Washington when he issued a field order on August 7, 1782, for a Badge of Military Merit to recognize those members of the Continental Army who performed " any singular meritorious action ".
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1782 and Badge
* 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle.
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.
The original Purple Heart, designated as the Badge of Military Merit, was established by George Washington — then the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army – by order from his Newburgh, New York headquarters on August 7, 1782.
But in 1782 the Badge of Military Merit was established, and mostly awarded to non-officers.
For this reason, the Badge of Military Merit is generally considered the first decoration of the U. S. military, even though it was created two years after the Fidelity Medallion, in 1782.
In August 1782, General Washington created the Badge of Military Merit, to be issued " whenever any singularly meritorious action is performed ... not only instances of unusual gallantry, but also of extraordinary fidelity and essential service in any way.
1782 and Military
* El Presidio Real de Santa Bárbara founded on April 12, 1782 – responsible for the defense of all installations located within the Second Military District ( the missions at San Fernando, San Buenaventura, Santa Barbara, Santa Inés, and La Purísima, along with
The village was part of the Central New York Military Tract, land set aside in 1782 for veterans of the American Revolution.
In 1782 he was named architect and controller-general of the Ecole Militaire ( Military School ).
The presidio was built by Spain in 1782, with the mission of defending the Second Military District in California.
1782 and first
The first water caterpillar was developed by Desblancs in 1782 and propelled by a steam engine.
* 1782 – The Montgolfier brothers ' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight.
* 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.
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 ).
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.
** 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.
1782 and formal
Although the Dutch Republic did not enter into a formal alliance with the United States and their allies, U. S. ambassador ( and future President ) John Adams managed to establish diplomatic relations with the Dutch Republic, making it the second European country to diplomatically recognize the Continental Congress in April 1782.
A formal concept of the city was laid out by his son, Sarfraz Khan in 1782.
The formal process was initiated in 1780 and land was added to the public domain from 1782 onward.
Known by the courtesy title of comte de Chinon during the lifetime of his distinguished grandfather, he was married in 1782 at the age of fifteen to Rosalie de Rochechouart, a deformed child of twelve, with whom his relations were never more than formal.
1782 and system
* Friedrich Christoph Oetinger ( 1702 – 1782 ) German pietist, for the study of the " divine system of relations "
Represented in a system of spherical coordinates, Laplace's spherical harmonics are a specific set of spherical harmonics that forms an orthogonal system, first introduced by Pierre Simon de Laplace in 1782.
In 1782, Thomas Gilbert finally succeeded in passing an Act that established poor houses solely for the aged and infirm and introduced a system of outdoor relief for the able-bodied.
The system of corregimientos to mark the subdivisions of the territory was ended in 1782, and replaced with Intendencias by another ruling of Charles III.
Titumir (; 1782 – 1831 ) was a rebel against the Zamindars and British colonial system in 19th century Bengal, a part of British India.
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.
His chief bureaucratic successes were the creation of a true cabinet system of government in 1778 and the creation of Spain's first national bank, the National Bank of San Carlos, in 1782.
1782: The voting system is criticised by Thomas McGrugar in " Letters of Zeno "
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