Salieri's Chimney Sweep and Mozart's work for the same company in 1782, Die Entführung aus dem Serail ( The Abduction from the Seraglio ) would be the only two major successes to emerge from the German singspiel experiment, and only Mozart's opera would survive on the stage beyond the close of the 18th century.

* 1782 – The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.

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

* 1782 – The Montgolfier brothers ' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight.

The French army and navy departed, so the Americans were on their own in 1782 – 83.

: In 1782, work on the Great Siege Tunnels started.

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 ).

He began those duties when he took his seat in Philadelphia on June 14, 1780, serving until 1782.

* 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.

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.

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.

A few months after the birth of her last child, Martha, age 33, died on September 6, 1782.

* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Variations on " Ah vous dirai-je, Maman " ( K. 265 / K. 300e ) ( 1781 or 1782 )

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.

In 1782 Edmund Law, otherwise the mildest of men, was most particular that Paley should add a book on political philosophy to the moral philosophy, which Paley was reluctant to write.

North would go on to dominate politics for the next decade, leading the country until 1782.

He and his sister subsequently moved to Datchet ( then in Buckinghamshire but now in Berkshire ) on 1 August 1782.

Year 1782 ( MDCCLXXXII ) was a common year starting on Tuesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

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

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.

The town is home to Washington College, a private liberal arts college founded in 1782.

Educated at the Jesuit college at Nancy, he became curé ( parish priest ) of Emberménil in 1782.

This petition, along with a second one in 1782, failed in its purpose, despite an attempt by Governor George Clinton in 1780 to create the new college by executive order.

Washington College evolved from the Kent County Free School, an institution of more than 60 years ’ standing in “ Chester Town ,” which by the college ’ s founding date of 1782 had reached considerable strength and importance as a port city.

The Maryland legislature granted its first college charter upon Washington College in April 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.

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.

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.