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 1781 Nash instigated action against Jane for separation on grounds of adultery, the case was tried at Hereford in 1782, Charles who was found guilty was unable to pay the damages of £ 76 and subsequently died in prison.

During 1781 and 1782, Brant tried to keep the disaffected western Iroquois nations loyal to the Crown before and after the British surrendered at Yorktown in October 1781.

On May 20, 1782, she tried enlisting in the army time successfully enlisting in the army on the master of Master Noah Taft of Uxbridge, under the name of her deceased brother, Robert Shurtliff Sampson, and his / her residence as Uxbridge, Massachusetts.

Arrested in 1778, tried for and acquitted of treason in 1782, he was then charged with the murder of a member of the posse sent to capture him in 1778.

Josiah Wedgwood used it to manufacture Jasper ware and tried to keep the source secret, but after a visit in 1782 by two Frenchmen, a local farmer, James Smithels, exported the mineral to Germany, charging five guineas per ton.

In 1782, Allen's brother Heber died at the relatively young age of 38.

The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 | The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, 13 September 1782.

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 British Royal Navy scored a major victory over France in 1782 at the Battle of the Saintes and France finished the war with huge debts and the minor gain of the island of Tobago.

He traveled to Germany and France between 1782 and 1785, and upon his return to London, became a leading member of the Grand Professional Concerts at the Hanover Square Rooms in Soho.

* 1782 – Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.

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

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.

An order by governor Daniel Corneille ( 1782 – 1787 ) banning garrison troops and sailors from punch-taverns, only allowing them to drink at army canteens, led to a mutiny over Christmas 1787 when some 200 troops skirmished with loyal troops over a three day period.

He also fought with Lord Howe at Gibraltar in 1782.

The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782, by John Singleton Copley

The premiere took place on 16 July 1782, at the Burgtheater in Vienna.

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

He left Rome on 27 February 1782, and, though magnificently received by the Emperor, his mission proved a fiasco ; he was, however, able a few years later to curb those German archbishops who, in 1786 at the Congress of Ems, had shown a tendency towards independence.

Dr. Robert Morrison was born in 1782 and became a pastor at age 16, and establishing the school in Malacca.

* 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

Serra was also present at the founding of the Presidio of Santa Barbara on April 21, 1782, but was prevented from locating the mission there because of the animosity of Governor Felipe de Neve.

The chapel at Mission San Juan Capistrano, built in 1782, is thought to be the oldest standing building in California.

In January 1782 he was elected to a new State Assembly at Jacksonborough and left his troops to take up his seat.