He administrated the fire brigade during the fire in 1782.

* 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful " grand assault " during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

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 ).

Charles Lee ( February 6, 1732 – October 2, 1782 ) was a British soldier who served as a General of the Continental Army during the American War of Independence.

Though most of the Mission complex, including the quadrangle and convento, has either been altered or demolished outright during the intervening years, the façade of the Mission chapel has remained relatively unchanged since its construction in 1782 – 1791.

Boone was elected to the first of his three terms in the Virginia General Assembly during the Revolutionary War, and fought in the Battle of Blue Licks in 1782.

The English used them with great effect during the siege of Gibraltar, especially on September 13, 1782, when the French floating batteries were destroyed, together with a large part of the Spanish fleet.

Around Monte Rosa, the Vincent family, Josef Zumstein ( 1783 – 1861 ), and Giovanni Gnifetti ( 1801 – 1867 ) did good work during the half century between 1778 and 1842, while in the Eastern Alps the Archduke John ( 1782 – 1850 ), Prince F. J. C. von Schwarzenberg, archbishop of Salzburg ( 1809 – 1885 ), Valentine Stanig ( 1774 – 1847 ), Adolf Schaubach ( 1800 – 1850 ), above all, P. J.

Johnson's mother was considered a heroine for her actions during Simon Girty's raid on Bryan's Station in August 1782.

* 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 ).

It was built in 1782, extended during the Victorian era, and by the early 21st century used as a Masonic hall.

Originally known as Mingo Bottom, it was the starting point for the ill-fated Crawford expedition against hostile Indians in 1782, during the American Revolutionary War.

This community remained neutral during the American Revolutionary War, but ninety-six Lenape were massacred in 1782 in the Gnadenhütten massacre by American militia in retaliation for raids carried out by other bands.

A grant of land on which Monaca now stands was granted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by patent, bearing the date September 5, 1787, to Colonel Ephraim Blaine ( 1741 – 1804 ), who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, from 1778 to 1782 as commissary-general of the Northern Department, and paternal great-grandfather of James G. Blaine.

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.

* L ' Indien, was a frigate built in 1778 during the American Revolutionary War ; renamed South Carolina she served with the South Carolina Navy before the British captured her in 1782

The legendary history of this Buddha image is traced to India, five centuries after the Lord Buddha attained Nirvana, till it was finally enshrined in Bangkok at the Wat Phra Kaew temple in 1782 during Rama I's reign ( 1782 – 1809 ).

The epic stories formed the basic information to draw the paintings during the reign of King Rama I ( 1782 – 1809 ).

At least five times between 1712 and 1782, Tecumseh's village was attacked by colonials and later American armies, as the Shawnee had allied with the British during the American Revolutionary War.

It was capital of Thailand from 1767 to 1782, during the reign of King Taksin, after the previous capital Ayutthaya was sacked by the Burmese.

In a particular irony, Sinn Féin, which as a republican party fought for Irish independence during the Anglo-Irish War, was founded by a man, Arthur Griffith, who sought to restore the King, Lords and Commons of Ireland and the 1782 constitution to the centre of Irish governance, and the College Green Houses of Parliament to its position as the home of an Irish parliament.

British forces were gradually evacuated from America during 1782 and 1783.

* 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.

In July 1782, in a change of government, Thomas Townshend became Secretary of State for Home and American Affairs ,, and assumed responsibility for organising an expedition against Spanish America.

* 1732 – Charles Lee, British-born American Revolutionary War figure ( d. 1782 )

John Adams served as an American envoy to France from 1778 until 1779 and to the Netherlands from 1780 until 1782, and the younger Adams accompanied his father on these journeys.

* 1782 – American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia see Raid on Lunenburg ( 1782 ).

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

* American President: Martin Van Buren ( 1782 – 1862 ) at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia

* 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.

* Micah Williams ( 1782 – 1837 ), American painter

* 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris – In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles ( later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris ).

After the failure of Lord North's ministry ( 1770 – 1782 ) in March 1782 due to Britain's defeat in the American Revolutionary War and the ensuing vote of no confidence by Parliament, the Marquess of Rockingham reasserted the Prime Minister's control over the Cabinet.

* Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy ( The American ) ( 1782 – 1846 ), adventurer

* September 4 – Paul Spooner, American lieutenant governor of Vermont ( 1782 – 1787 ) ( b. 1746 )

* October 24 – Daniel Webster, American statesman ( b. 1782 )

* October 22 – William Miller, American Baptist preacher ( b. 1782 )

** William Crawford, American soldier and surveyor ( d. 1782 )

During the American War of Independence the Bahamas fell to Spanish forces under General Galvez in 1782.

The North administration left power in March 1782 following the American Revolution, and a coalition of the Rockingham Whigs and the former Chathamites, now led by the Earl of Shelburne, took its place.

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.

American privateers not only fought naval battles but also raided numerous communities in British colonies, such as the Raid on Lunenburg, Nova Scotia ( 1782 ).