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.

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• 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'etat.
• 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

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