The 1782 resolution adopting the seal blazons the image on the reverse as " A pyramid unfinished.

In spite of the large British military presence in the colonies and its continued control of several major cities, in early 1782, the British parliament passed a resolution suspending further offensives against the Americans.

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.

* 1782 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U. S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.

* 1782 – The U. S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.

* Thomas, Douglas H. John Hanson, President of the United States in Congress Assembled, 1781 – 1782.

He served two terms in the Continental Congress ( 1774 – 1775, and 1782 – 1784 ).

Continental Congress 1782 and 1783.

Robert Morris, the Minister of Finance, persuaded Congress set up the Bank of North America, in 1782.

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.

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.

It took six years, three committees, and the contributions of fourteen men before the Congress finally accepted a design ( which included elements proposed by each of the three committees ) in 1782.

After two more years, Congress formed a third committee on May 4, 1782, this time consisting of John Rutledge, Arthur Middleton, and Elias Boudinot.

Barton then came up with another design, which the committee submitted back to Congress on May 9, 1782, just five days after being formed.

On June 13, 1782, the Congress turned to its Secretary Charles Thomson, and provided all material submitted by the first three committees.

The design was submitted to Congress on June 20, 1782 and was accepted the same day.

Benson Lossing claimed it was used by all the Presidents of the Congress after 1782, probably to seal envelopes on correspondence sent to the Congress, though only examples from Thomas Mifflin are documented.

It was named for Thomas Burke, a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1781 and Governor of North Carolina from 1781 to 1782.

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.

* Joseph Trumbull ( 1782 – 1861 ), state governor, later Connecticut representative to the US Congress.

* Elias Boudinot ( 1740 – 1821 ), President of the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1783.

He was a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1782 until 1783, and also from 1785 until 1787, serving as its president for five months from June 6 to November 5, 1786 after the resignation of John Hancock.

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

While in Delaware, the Chews rented their house on Third Street to Don Juan de Miralles ( Spanish representative to the American government ); the Marquis de Chastellux ( principal liaison officer between the French Commander-in-Chief and George Washington ); and to George and Martha Washington, from November 1781 to March 1782, during the Second Continental Congress.

On June 21, 1782 he deserted his post outside Savannah, Georgia and took his arms and equipment.

The first registering thermometer was designed and built by James Six in 1782, and the design, known as Six's thermometer is still in wide use today.

Named for Giovanni da Capistrano, a 15th century theologian and " warrior priest " who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy, San Juan Capistrano has the distinction of being home to the oldest building in California still in use, a chapel built in 1782 ; known alternately as " Serra's Chapel " and " Father Serra's Church ," it is the only extant structure where it has been documented that the padre Junipero Serra celebrated mass.

In his writings, Griffith declared that the Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1800 was illegal and that, consequently, the Anglo-Irish dual monarchy which existed under Grattan's Parliament, and the so-called Constitution of 1782 was still in effect.

Amidst all of the work generated by these publishing enterprises, Boydell still found time to be alderman of Cheap ward in 1782, master of the Stationers ' Company in 1783, sheriff of London in 1785, and Lord Mayor of London in 1790.

In summer 1782 a new British government came to power, who still hoped to achieve a reconciliation with America.

By March 2, 1782 tobacco production was established in Luzon, with La Union, Ilocos, Abra, Cagayan Valley and Nueva Ecija ( still part of Pampanga at the time ) as the centers for planting, growing, harvesting and processing tobacco.

Shelburne was made Prime Minister in 1782 following Rockingham's death with the American War still being fought.

He delivered the Latin oration in June, 1782, it is still preserved in the Yale University Library.

Boletus edulis was first described in 1782 by the French botanist Pierre Bulliard and still bears its original name.

Hermitage Mill was the first to be built, in 1782, and still stands on Hermitage lane.

Following the Rosicrucian example, an Egyptian imagery pervaded the European Freemasonry of the time and its imagery, such as the eye on the pyramid — still depicted on the Great Seal of the United States ( 1782 ), which appears on the United States one-dollar bill — and the Egyptian references in Mozart's Masonic-themed Die Zauberflöte ( The Magic Flute, 1791 ), and his earlier unfinished " Thamos ".

The lifting force was so great that they lost control of their craft on its very first test flight on 14 December 1782.

In August 1782, he learned of a British force movement to gather supplies and left his post to join Mordecai Gist in an attempt to intercept them.

Caldwell and McKee's force laid siege to Bryan Station on August 15, 1782, killing all of the settlers ' livestock and destroying their crops, but withdrew after two days when they learned that Kentucky militiamen were on the way.

On 8 August 1782 Hearne and his complement of 38 civilians were confronted by a French force under the comte de La Pérouse composed of three ships, including one of 74 guns, and 290 soldiers.

In August 1782, another British-Indian force defeated the Kentucky militia at the Battle of Blue Licks.

In 1782 they used their newly powerful position to force the Crown to grant the landed Ascendancy self-rule and a more independent parliament (" Grattan's Parliament ").

But importantly, because Arnold's balance spring patents were in force ( each for 14 years ) Earnshaw could not use the helical balance spring until the 1775 patent lapsed in 1789 and in the case of the 1782 patent, 1796.

It was the Volunteers of 1782 which would launch a paramilitary tradition in Irish politics, a tradition, whether nationalist of unionist, has continued to shape Irish political activity with the ethos of " the force of argument had been trumped by the argument of force ".

On July 13, 1782, in one of the final actions of the American Revolutionary War, the settlement was completely destroyed by a force of The King's 8th Regiment out of Fort Niagara " The King's, or 8th Regiment-Detroit Garrison " and British-allied American Indians led by Guyasuta.