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1782 - Definition and Overview |
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Events
Births
Deaths
- May 15 - Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese prime minister
- May - Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (born 1714)
- September 6 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, Wife of 3rd President Thomas Jefferson (born 1748)
- Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, British Whig politician, prime minister 1765-66 and 1782 (born 1730)
- Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (born 1736)
- Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (born 1698)
- Giovannini, Italian composer
- Hyder Ali, Indian general, sultan of Mysore (born c1722)
- Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematical physicist (born 1700)
- Johann Christian Bach, German composer (born 1735)
- Metastasio, Pen name of Pietro Armando Dominico Trapassi, Italian poet and librettist (born 1698)
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