1782

1782 (MDCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1782nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 782nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 82nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1782, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1750s  1760s  1770s  – 1780s –  1790s  1800s  1810s
Years:	1779 1780 1781 – 1782 – 1783 1784 1785

1782 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1782 MDCCLXXXII
Ab urbe condita	2535
Armenian calendar	1231 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԱ
Assyrian calendar	6532
Balinese saka calendar	1703–1704
Bengali calendar	1189
Berber calendar	2732
British Regnal year	22 Geo. 3 – 23 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2326
Burmese calendar	1144
Byzantine calendar	7290–7291
Chinese calendar	辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 4478 or 4418     — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 4479 or 4419
Coptic calendar	1498–1499
Discordian calendar	2948
Ethiopian calendar	1774–1775
Hebrew calendar	5542–5543
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1838–1839
- Shaka Samvat	1703–1704
- Kali Yuga	4882–4883
Holocene calendar	11782
Igbo calendar	782–783
Iranian calendar	1160–1161
Islamic calendar	1196–1197
Japanese calendar	Tenmei 2 (天明２年)
Javanese calendar	1707–1708
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4115
Minguo calendar	130 before ROC 民前130年
Nanakshahi calendar	314
Thai solar calendar	2324–2325
Tibetan calendar	阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 1908 or 1527 or 755     — to — 阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 1909 or 1528 or 756

Events

• January 7 – The first American commercial bank opens (Bank of North America).
• January 15 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the United States Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage
• February 5 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
• March 8 – In Ohio the Gnadenhutten massacre of Native Americans takes place in which 29 men, 27 women, and 34 children were killed by white militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by another Native American group.
• April 6 – Rama I succeeded King Taksin of Thailand who was overthrown in an coup d'état.
• April 12 – A British fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a French fleet under the Comte de Grasse at the Battle of the Saintes in the West Indies.
• June 18 – In Switzerland, Anna Goldi in sentenced to death for witchcraft – the last legal witchcraft sentence
• August 7 – 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".
• November 30 – American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized in the Treaty of Paris).
• London creates Foot Patrol for public security
• Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries try to cross the English Channel with a hot-air balloon
• The Parliament of Great Britain extends James Watt's copyright for the steam engine to the year 1800

Births

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Deaths

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