1782 - What happened in 1782 ?

January 1782

Monday 07:

The first American commercial bank opens (Bank of North America).

Tuesday 15:

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

February 1782

Tuesday 05:

Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.

March 1782

Friday 08:

Gnadenhütten massacre: Almost 100 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio had their skulls crushed with a mallet by Pennsylvanian militiamen in a mass murder.

Wednesday 27:

Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

April 1782

Saturday 06:

Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Thailand, who was overthrown in a coup d'état.

June 1782

Thursday 20:

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

July 1782

Monday 01:

American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

Tuesday 16:

First performance of Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio.

August 1782

Wednesday 07:

George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.

Monday 19:

Battle of Blue Licks: the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Battle of Yorktown.

November 1782

Saturday 30:

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