1782 in Great Britain
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1782 in Great Britain:

Other years

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Sport

1782 English cricket season

Events from the year 1782 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Frederick North, Lord North, Tory (to 22 March), Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Whig (to 1 July), William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Whig

Events

12 April: Battle of the Saintes.

• 25 January–26 January - American Revolutionary War: Battle of St. Kitts between French and British fleets.
• 5 February - Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.^[1]
• 17 February - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Sadras between French and British fleets.
• 19 March - Frederick North, Lord North resigns as Prime Minister because of recent setbacks in the American Revolutionary War.^[2]
• 27 March - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister.^[3] His new Whig administration opens peace talks with the Americans, with Thomas Grenville being sent to Paris to negotiate with Benjamin Franklin.^[1]
• 1 April - Rockingham appoints the first Home Secretary (William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne) and Foreign Secretary (Charles James Fox).^[2]
• 12 April - American Revolutionary War: A British fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a French fleet under the Comte de Grasse in the West Indies at the Battle of the Saintes.^[4]
• 12 April - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Providien.
• 17 May
  • Parliament repeals the Ireland Act of 1720 allowing the Parliament of Ireland legislative independence.^[1]
  • Treaty of Salbai ends the First Anglo-Maratha War.^[1]
• 25 May–12 June - American Revolutionary War: Crawford expedition.
• 4 July - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne becomes Prime Minister following the death of Rockingham.^[5]
• 6 July - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Negapatam between British and French fleets.
• 19 August - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks.
• 3 September - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trincomalee between French and British fleets.
• 20 October - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape Spartel.
• 30 November - American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalised in the Treaty of Paris).^[1]

Ongoing events

• Second Anglo-Mysore War 1780–1784

Undated

• Parliament extends James Watt's patent for the steam engine to the year 1800.

Births

• 5 January - Robert Morrison, Protestant missionary to China (died 1834)
• 10 August - Charles James Napier, general and Commander-in-Chief in India (died 1853)
• 1 November - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1859)

Deaths

• 18 January - John Pringle, physician (born 1707)
• 27 April - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, politician (born 1710)
• 20 May - William Emerson, mathematician (born 1701)
• May - Richard Wilson, painter (born 1714)
• 14 June - Edward Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier solider and courtier (born 1740)
• 1 July - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister (born 1730)
• 27 December - Henry Home, Lord Kames, advocate and philosopher (born 1697)

References

See also