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Wed Nov 01 2000 at 2:28:14
Born in 1782:
Italian
composer
Niccolò Paganini
.
German
composer
Johann Christian Bach
.
Martin van Buren
, eighth
President of the United States
.
Irish
romantic
poet
John Field
.
American
orator
and
statesman
Daniel Webster
.
English
children's poet
Ann Taylor
.
French
composer
Daniel Auber
.
Scottish
novelist
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
.
English Charismatic religious leader
John Wroe
.
South Carolina
statesman
John Caldwell Calhoun
,
Vice-President of the United States
under
John Quincy Adams
and
Andrew Jackson
.
German educator
Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel
, originator of the
kindergarten
system.
Marie Annonciade Caroline Bonaparte
, sister of
Napoleon Bonaparte
.
American statesman
Thomas Hart Benton
.
Died in 1782:
Mathematician
Daniel Bernoulli
.
French architect
Ange-Jacques Gabriel
.
Events of 1782:
War of American Independence:
(February 4)
Minorca
submits to the Spanish fleet.
There is some fighting in the West, mostly notably the (August 19)
Battle of Blue Licks
in which British troops and Indians attack the settlement of
Daniel Boone
. There is a later retaliatory strike by
George Rogers Clark
.
(May 8) The spanish capture
The Bahamas
from the British.
(September 15) In the climactic attack of the French and Spanish siege of
Gibraltar
, 40,000 troops attack The Rock with a large naval bombardment. The Frennch and Spanish suffer heavy losses and fail to take the stronghold.
(November 30)
Great Britain
acknowledges the independence of the
United States
in provisional articles of peace.
(December 14) The British evacuate
Charleston
,
South Carolina
.
(March)
Lord Frederick North
resigns as
prime minister
of Great Britain. King
George III
appoints Charles Watson-Wentworth, the
Marquis of Rockingham
who dies July 1. The King then appoints William Petty, second Earl of
Shelburne
to the post.
Virginia
passes a law allowing the
Manumission
of
slaves
under certain conditions.
Thomas Jefferson
writes his essay "Commerce between Master and Slave", stating the inherent corruption of slavery and fearing the retribution of
God
for the institution. He keeps
his
slaves, however.
The
Maratha
army under
Shrimant Madhav Rao
defeats a British army, and the
Treaty of Salbai
ends the first
Anglo-Maratha War
.
Bernardo de Galvez
appointed governor of
Mexico
.
1781
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Ramkhamhaeng
Niccolo Paganini
Manumission
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
Stephen Van Rensselaer III
Rochambeau
Daniel Webster
The Philokalia
Bernardo de Galvez
Daniel Bernoulli
Minorca
Thomas Hart Benton
John Field
Japanese History
John C. Calhoun
Napoleon Bonaparte
Gibraltar
Daniel Boone
George III
English
statesman
Martin Van Buren
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