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

In France, there was Lettres persanes ( 1721 ) by Montesquieu, followed by Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse ( 1761 ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Laclos ' Les Liaisons dangereuses ( 1782 ), which used the epistolary form to great dramatic effect, because the sequence of events was not always related directly or explicitly.

The earliest known use of an expert witness in English law came in 1782, when a court that was hearing litigation relating to the silting-up of Wells harbour in Norfolk accepted evidence from a leading civil engineer, John Smeaton.

He was elected as the second president under the Articles of Confederation, and the President of the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1783.

In November 1782, he was elected as President of the Continental Congress for a one-year term.

However it was also in France that a new form of printing developed, the Bibliothèque bleue, and many grimoires published through this circulated amongst an ever-growing percentage of the populace, in particular the Grand Albert, the Petit Albert ( 1782 ), the Grimoire du Pape Honorious and the Enchiridion Leonis Papae.

" Watt found by experiment in 1782 that a ' brewery horse ' was able to produce 32, 400 foot-pounds per minute.

Henry Home, Lord Kames ( 169627 December 1782 ) was a Scottish advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver.

At the request of Madame d ' Epinay, who was anxious to protect her privacy, however, the police ordered him to stop, and the Confessions was only partially published in 1782, four years after his death.

Monroe was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1782.

In 1782, the Society of Schwenkfelders was formed, and in 1909 the Schwenkfelder Church was organized.

The treatise was published after his liberation in 1782 under the title Les Lettres de cachet et des prisons d ' etat and was widely read throughout Europe.

* 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.

The town was settled about 1782.

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.

Martin Van Buren was born in the village of Kinderhook, New York, on December 5, 1782, about 25 miles ( 40 km ) south of Albany, New York.

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.

In 1782, the remainder of the collection was sold piecemeal to private parties by Joseph II, who was a lover of the Arts rather than the Sciences.

The well-known English Masonic writer, Dr. George Oliver ( 1782 – 1867 ), in his " Historical Landmarks ", 1846, carried the story forward and even claimed that King Charles II was active in his attendance at meetings — an obvious invention, for if it had been true, it would not have escaped the notice of the historians of the time.

A check of the website Old Bailey for " Associated Records 1674-1834 " for an alleged trial in December 1801 and hanging of Sweeney Todd for January 1802 shows no reference ; the only murder trial for this period is that of a Governor / Lt Col. Joseph Wall who was hanged 28 January 1802 for killing a Benjamin Armstrong on 10 July 1782 on the isle of Gorée, West Africa, and the discharge of a Humphrey White in January 1802.

In December 1782 the pope appointed Dom Gregory as the Bishop of Tivoli, near Rome.

After Lord North's ministry collapsed in 1782, the Whig Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham was appointed Prime Minister.

January 5, 1782, he was appointed lieutenant of Westmoreland County to succeed Col. Archibald Lochry, who had been captured and killed while on an Indian expedition.

When North finally resigned under the strains of office and the disastrous American war in March 1782 and was gingerly replaced with the new ministry of the Marquess of Rockingham, Fox was appointed Foreign Secretary.

Soon after his return from the continent Barry had been chosen a member of the Royal Academy of Arts ; and in 1782 he was appointed professor of painting in the room of Mr Penny with a salary of £ 30 a year.

In 1782 he was appointed Prime Minister for a second time ( with Charles James Fox and Lord Shelburne as secretaries of state ) and, upon taking office, pushed for an acknowledgement of the independence of the United States, initiating an end to British involvement in the American War of Independence.

Then in 1782 he was appointed to the New Hampshire Supreme Court despite not being a lawyer.

In 1782 Colebrooke was appointed to a writership in India.

He was promoted to major general in 1782, the last man appointed to that rank by Congress.

He was appointed colonel of the 2nd Horse Grenadier Guards ( now 2nd Life Guards ) on 26 March 1782 before being promoted to major-general on 20 November 1782.

Suspicion had arisen, however, as to the financial management of the Admiralty, of which Dundas had been treasurer between 1782 and 1800 ; in 1802 a commission of inquiry was appointed, which reported in 1805.

After enumerating its defects and needs, Washington appointed him its commander in August 1782.

In 1782, Buckingham was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire ; in July of the same year, he became a member of the Privy Council and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the Ministry of Lord Shelburne.

In 1782, Sam Adams created the third Congress and appointed a design artist, William Barton of Philadelphia, to bring a proposal for the national seal .< ref > MacArthur, John D. ( 2011 ).

Meantime he wrote two treatises, Essai sur l ' électricité ( 1781 ) and Physique générale et particulaire ( 1782 – 1784 ), which gained him the friendship of Buffon, who in 1785 appointed him subdemonstrator in the Jardin du Roi, and proposed that he continue Buffon's Histoire naturelle.

Chichester was surveyor-general of ordnance in Lord Rockingham's 2nd ministry ( 1782 ), and Chief Secretary for Ireland in the coalition ministry of 1783 ( when he was also appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland ).

In November 1779 he was appointed Lord President of the Council, and left office with North in March 1782.

Galvez appointed Rodríguez Miró acting Governor of Louisiana on January 20, 1782.

He was appointed superintendent of the port of Charleston in 1782 before returning to England.

He was appointed a Councillor of State and Director of the State Education Commission in 1781, then also as Director of a new Censorship Commission in 1782.

From the beginning of his parliamentary career Roche ranged himself on the side of the government, and for his services he was granted a pension, appointed chamberlain to the viceregal court, and on 30 November 1782 was created a baronet.

Secretary of the Catholic Committee from 1782, he was appointed by them to draft a new relief bill in 1788: despite controversy within the English Catholic community over the extent to which the Catholic condition should be assimilated to that of Protestant dissenters, a bill passed on 24 June 1791.

He was appointed High Sheriff of County Galway in 1782.