WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1782
Find out what all happened January to December 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: 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)

Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke. (6. May 1782)

The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens. (7. January 1782)

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

Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca. (5. February 1782)

Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage. (15. January 1782)

American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America. (27. February 1782)

The Montgolfier brothers' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight. (14. December 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 War of Independence: Battle of the Saintes begins. (9. April 1782)

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

American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán. (16. March 1782)

King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) founded the Chakri dynasty. (6. April 1782)

Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale. (14. March 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. (21. April 1782)

American Revolutionary War: French troops begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts. (11. January 1782)

The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States. (20. June 1782)

Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (27. March 1782)