WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO NOVEMBER 1782
Find out what all happened July to November 1782

American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks – the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown. (19. August 1782)

American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar. (13. September 1782)

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. (7. August 1782)

American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia see Raid on Lunenburg (1782). (1. July 1782)

First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail. (16. July 1782)

American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris – In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris). (30. November 1782)