* 1782 – Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace invent the ice-calorimeter

Jean Baptiste Antoine Marcellin Marbot ( August 18, 1782 – November 16, 1854 ), French soldier, son of General Jean Antoine Marbot ( 1754 – 1800 ), who died in the defence of Genoa under Masséna, was born at La Riviere ( Correze ).

The world ’ s first ice-calorimeter, used in the winter of 1782 – 83, by Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace, to determine the heat evolved in various chemical change s, calculations which were based on Joseph Black ’ s prior discovery of latent heat.

* Louis Antoine Dazemard de Lusignan ( 1782 )

Roederer's son, Baron Antoine Marie Roederer ( 1782 – 1865 ), also became a noted political figure.

* Louis Antoine Dazemard de Lusignan ( 1782 )

Antoine Lavoisier is credited as the first to blow oxygen-of which he was co-discoverer-through a blowpipe to support the combustion of charcoal, in 1782.

However, the first Parisian restaurant worthy of the name was the one founded by Beauvilliers in 1782 in the Rue de Richelieu, called the Grande Taverne de Londres.

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.

In 1782 Hood introduced Nelson to the future King William, Duke of Clarence who was then a serving naval officer in New York.

In 1782, William White, the father of the Episcopal Church, wrote in his pamphlet The Case of the Episcopal Churches in the United States Considered, " it would seem, that their future continuance can be provided for only by voluntary associations for union and good government ".

Among notable guests were King Augustus II the Strong ( 1726 to 1727 and again in 1729 ), King Augustus III and his wife and sons Prince Francis Xavier and Prince Charles ( 1744 and 1752 ), Prince Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland ( twice in 1759 ), Bishop Ignacy Krasicki ( 1760 ), King Stanisław August Poniatowski ( occasionally ), Emperor Joseph II Habsburg ( 1780 ), Grand Duke Paul, future Tsar Paul I of Russia, with his wife ( 1782 ), King Louis XVIII of France ( 1798 ), French, English, Turkish and Russian envoys and Italian actress.

In 1782 Taksin sent his armies under Chakri, the future Rama I of Rattanakosin, to invade Cambodia, but while they were away a rebellion broke out in the area around the capital.

Recognizing the value of an important hostage, Washington approved in 1782 a plan to capture the son of King George III, The Prince William ( the future king, William IV ), during the young naval officer's posting to New York.

In 1782 the Komödienhaus ( comedy house ), the first definite sign of the future of theatres in Frankfurt, was built on today's Rathenauplatz.

** Princess Sophie of France ( 1734 – 1782 ), daughter of Louis XV,

Louis Philippe was tutored by the Countess of Genlis, beginning in 1782.

The death of Cato ( La mort de Caton d ' Utique ) was also a popular theme in revolutionary France, being sculpted by Philippe-Laurent Roland ( 1782 ) and painted by Bouchet Louis André Gabriel, Bouillon Pierre, and Guérin Pierre Narcisse in 1797.

Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily sometimes known as Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies ( Maria Amalia Teresa ; 26 April 1782 – 24 March 1866 ) was a Princess of Naples and Sicily and later the Queen of the French from 1830 – 1848, consort to Louis Philippe I.

Emmanuel-Armand de Vignerot du Plessis de Richelieu, duc d ' Aiguillon ( July 31, 1720 – 1782 ) was a French soldier and statesman and a nephew of Louis François Armand du Plessis, duc de Richelieu.

He married Marie Adélaïde ( sometimes Adélaïde Marie ) de Montholon ( Mâcon, 11 or 16 October 1767-1848 ), Lady of Madame Victoire of France, daughter of Louis XV, on 16 April 1782 at Paris, France, with whom he had two daughters.

When the collection of the duc d ' Aumont was sold by auction in Paris in 1782 so many objects niounted by Gouthière were bought for Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette that it is not difficult to perceive the basis of the belief that they were actually made for the court.

On 1 November 1802, in Karlsruhe, Frederick William married Princess Marie Elisabeth of Baden ( 7 September 1782 Karlsruhe – 20 April 1808 Bruchsal ), daughter of Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden.

Friedrich Fröbel ( 1782 – 1852 ) opened a Play and Activity institute in 1837 in the village of Bad Blankenburg in principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Thuringia, which he renamed Kindergarten on June 28, 1840 to mark the four-hundredth anniversary of Gutenberg's invention of movable type.

But the first opera house was not opened until 1782 and served for a century before being replaced at the end of the 19th century.

He opened it to the public in 1782, over forty years before the Charleston Museum, which is generally considered the first of all American museums.

In 1776, the exhibition moved to the Palais Royal and, in 1782, Curtius opened a second exhibit, the Caverne des Grands Voleurs, a precursor to the later chamber of horrors, on Boulevard du Temple.

Belper opened in 1778 and Milford in 1782.

St Patrick's, Carlow College, founded in 1782 by Dr James Keefe, then Roman Catholic Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, and his co-adjutor Bishop Daniel Delany, and opened in 1793, is a college in Carlow, Ireland.

Although the bridge was opened to traffic by the end of 1778, a new scheme for the balustrade and the completion of the south western corner were not finished until 1782 and 1790 respectively.

This branch opened in 1782 and is now the longest continuously operated branch in America.

It gained its Act of Parliament in 1772 and opened in 1782.

Caroline died after only one year of marriage, on 28 December 1782 having succumbed to smallpox.

Sakukawa Kanga ( 1782 – 1838 ) had studied pugilism and staff ( bo ) fighting in China ( according to one legend, under the guidance of Kosokun, originator of kusanku kata ).

* Honoré Mirabeau, Des Lettres de Cachet et des prisons d ' état ( Hamburg, 1782 ), written in the dungeon at Vincennes into which his father had thrown him by a lettre de cachet, one of the ablest and most eloquent of his works, which had an immense circulation and was translated into English in 1788.

Attempts by governor John Skottowe ( 1764 – 1782 ) to regularise the sale of arrack and punch led to some hostility and desertions by a number of troops who stole boats and were probably mostly lost at sea — however, at least one group of seven soldiers and a slave succeeded in escaping to Brazil in 1770.

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.

Daniel Bernoulli (; ) ( 8 February 1700 – 17 March 1782 ) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.

Metastasio ( 1698 – 1782 ) ( real name Pietro Trapassi ) was one of the most highly regarded librettists in Europe.

* John Brown ( 1738 – 1812 ), militia captain during the Revolutionary War, served as one of the state Treasurers ( 1782 – 1784 ), and served in the North Carolina state legislature ( 1784 – 1787 ).

From 1782 to 1810, the proportion of free blacks to the total black population in Virginia increased from less than one percent to 7. 2 percent, and more than 30, 000 blacks were free.

The history of the tract of land where what is now Maeystown is situated, began sometime after 1782, when a soldier of the American Revolution, one James McRoberts, staked a claim of 100 acres ( Survey 704 ; Claim 316 ), he subsequently left the Illinois Territory for Tennessee, where he married Mary Fletcher-Harris, and returned in 1797, adding another to his holdings.

* Samuel Guthrie ( U. S. physician ), one of the discoverers of chloroform, and inventor of the percussion compound for firearms, which superseded flints ( 1782 – 1848 ).

Farinelli () ( 24 January 170516 September 1782 ), was the stage name of Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi (), celebrated Italian castrato singer of the 18th century and one of the greatest singers in the history of opera.

Two bills were put before Parliament in 1782, one for the Birmingham and Fazeley, and a rival one from the Birmingham Canal for a branch from Wednesbury to Walsall.

In 1782, they obtained an agreement from the Oxford Canal Company that they would complete the route to the River Thames at Oxford, one from the Coventry Canal that they would extend their canal from Atherstone to Fazeley, and agreed that they would complete the Coventry Canal's route from Fazeley as far as Whittington, as the Coventry Canal company could not finance the whole route.

Richard Wilson ( 1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782 ) was a Welsh landscape painter and one of the founder members in 1768 of the Royal Academy.

Though a conforming Jew, and though contributing liberally toward the support of the synagogue, D ' Israeli appears never to have cordially or intimately mixed with the community ; only on one occasion did he serve in a minor office — that of inspector of charity schools in the year 1782.

The ministerial changes of 1782 involved a more extensive upheaval among office-holders than any since 1714, virtually replacing one administration with another drawn from opposition ".

His ancestors included two well-known men of the Greek War of Independence, namely his paternal grandfather and namesake Ioannis Papadiamantopoulos ( 1766 – 1826 ), born in Corinth but of ultimately Epirote ancestry, ( he was executed after the fall of Missolonghi ) and his maternal granduncle Iakovos Tombazis ( c. 1782 – 1829 ), a renowned Arvanite from Hydra, who became one of the first admirals of the Greek navy.

They had three children together: Richard ( 1708 – 1782 ), an eccentric, playwright and artist whose engravings for Thomas Gray ’ s ‘ A Long Story ’ were published in 1753, and two daughters, one named Johanna.

A native of Geneva, he became one of the democratic leaders of the Geneva Republic, and in 1782 was forced to take refuge to the Kingdom of Great Britain, after the armed interference of France, the Kingdom of Sardinia and Berne in favour of the patrician party.

Opie was introduced, prior to March 1782, at the court of King George III, who purchased one of his pictures and commissioned him to produce a portrait of Mary Delaney.

In 1782 he first exhibited at the Royal Academy and in December of that year was married to Mary Bunn-though the match proved to be an unhappy one and they were eventually divorced in 1796 after her elopement.

The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 is one of Britain's largest oil paintings ; it depicts the defeat of the floating batteries at Gibraltar during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.