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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.

Events
January–March January 7 – The first American commercial bank (Bank of North America) opens. • January 15 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the United States Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage. • January 23 – The Laird of Johnstone (George Ludovic Houston) invites people to buy marked plots of land which, when built upon, form the planned town of Johnstone, Scotland, to provide employment for his thread and cotton mills. • February 5 – The Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca. • February 6Singu Min is overthrown as king of Myanmar by his cousin Phaungka Min and 8 days later will be executed by his uncle Bodawpayar. • February 18Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Shirley's Gold Coast expedition lands at Elmina on the Dutch Gold Coast. The British expedition fails to take the fort here but over the next several weeks seizes, with minimal resistance, four small Dutch forts. • February 27 – The British House of Commons votes against further war in America, paving the way for the Second Rockingham ministry and the Peace of Paris. • March 8Gnadenhutten massacre: In Ohio, 29 Native American men, 27 women, and 34 children are killed by colonial militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by another Native American group. • March 27Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain. • March 31 (Easter Sunday) – Mission San Buenaventura is founded in Las Californias, part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. April–June April 6Rama I overthrows King Taksin of Siam (now Thailand) in a coup d'état, and moves the political capital from Thonburi, across the Chao Phraya River to Rattanakosin Island, the historic center of Bangkok. : Battle of the Saintes. • April 12Battle of the Saintes: A British fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a French fleet under the Comte de Grasse, in the West Indies. • April 19John Adams secures recognition of the United States as an independent government by the Dutch Republic. During this visit, he also negotiates a loan of five million guilders, financed by Nicolaas van Staphorst and Wilhelm Willink. • April 21 – A Lak Mueang (city pillar) is erected on Rattanakosin Island, located on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River, by order of King Rama I, an act considered the founding of the capital city of Bangkok. • May 17 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Repeal of Act for Securing Dependence of Ireland Act, a major component of the reforms collectively known as the Constitution of 1782, which restore legislative independence to the Parliament of Ireland. • June 18 – In Switzerland, Anna Göldi is sentenced to death for witchcraft (the last legal witchcraft sentence). • June 20 – The bald eagle is chosen as the emblem of the United States of America. On the same day, the Confederation Congress adopts the design for the Great Seal of the United States. July–September JulyJoseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, receives a visit from Pope Pius VI. • July 1Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. • July 16August 29 – The Masonic Congress of Wilhelmsbad, Germany, one of the most important secret society congresses in history, takes place. High-degree Freemasons from the whole of Europe spend the time deliberating the fate of the rite of Strict Observance, and hierarchy of the governing bodies of world Freemasonry, at the Hanau-Wilhelmsbad spa. • July 16Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail premieres at the Burgtheater in Vienna. • August 7George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit (or the Order of the Purple Heart) to honor soldiers' merit in battle (reinstated later by Franklin D. Roosevelt, and renamed to the more poetic "Purple Heart", to honor soldiers wounded in action). • Étienne Maurice Falconet's Bronze Horseman statue of Tsar Peter the Great is unveiled in Saint Petersburg. • August 19 – A combined British and Native American force defeat Kentucky militiamen in the Battle of Blue Licks in the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War. October–December October 10 – Welsh actress Sarah Siddons, the pre-eminent star of the English stage, makes a triumphant return to the theatre in the title role of David Garrick's new play, Isabella, or The Fatal Marriage. • October 18 • The first franking privilege is granted for official correspondence to be sent at no charge to and from members of the Confederation Congress, at government expense, during periods when the Congress is in session. • John Adams returns to Paris as the first United States Minister to France. • November 4Elias Boudinot of New Jersey is elected the new President of the Congress of the Confederation. • December 16East India Company: Hada and Mada Miah lead a rebellion in the Indian subcontinent against East India Company officer Robert Lindsay and his troops in Sylhet Shahi Eidgah. Date unknown • Chief Kamehameha I of Hawaii gains control of the northern part of the island of Hawaii, after defeating his cousin Kīwalaʻō. • Princess Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova is the first woman in the world to direct a scientific academy, the Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences. • London creates the Foot Patrol for public security. • The British Parliament extends James Watt's patent for the steam engine to the year 1800. • The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates Washington, North Carolina. • In China, the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries is completed, the largest literary compilation in China's history (surpassing the Yongle Encyclopedia of the 15th century). The books are bound in 36,381 volumes (册) with more than 79,000 chapters (卷), comprising about 2.3 million pages, and approximately 800 million Chinese characters. • The first theater in the Baltic, the Riga City Theater, is founded. • Saint Petersburg, Russia has 300,000 inhabitants. == Births ==
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Bean, American politician (d. 1866) • January 11Jean Laforgue, French scholar (d. 1852) • January 12Martin Flint, American politician (d. 1855) • January 13Robert Aspland, English Unitarian minister (d. 1845) • January 14Carl Ferdinand Langhans, German architect (d. 1869) • Stephen Lushington, British judge and Member of Parliament (d. 1873) • Thomas Sergeant, American lawyer and politician (d. 1860) • Peder Tonning, Norwegian politician (d. 1839) • January 15Elkanah Kelsey Dare, American composer (d. 1826) • Nikolaus Wolfgang Fischer, German physician and chemist (d. 1850) • Ōkubo Tadazane, daimyo (d. 1837) • January 18William Gosset, British Member of Parliament (d. 1848) • Daniel Webster, 14th and 19th United States Secretary of State (d. 1852) • January 19Michel Bibaud, Canadian writer (d. 1857) • John J. Chappell, American politician (d. 1871) • William Eden, British soldier and politician (d. 1810) • William Harris, 2nd Baron Harris, British Army general (d. 1845) • January 20Archduke John of Austria, Austrian soldier, imperial regent of the German Empire (d. 1859) • William Nott, British general (d. 1845) • January 21Jan George Bertelman, Dutch composer (d. 1854) • Afanasy Grigoriev, Russian architect (d. 1868) • James Patrick Murray, British politician (d. 1834) • January 22Philip Hamilton, son of American Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton (d. 1801) • Franciszek Ksawery Lampi, Austrian artist (d. 1852) • John Mitford, British naval officer and author (d. 1831) • January 23José Francisco Bermúdez, Venezuelan revolutionary (d. 1831) • January 24Charles K. Williams, American politician (d. 1853) • January 25Johann Michael Ackner, Austrian archaeologist (d. 1862) • January 26William George Keith Elphinstone, British Army general (d. 1842) • Cornelius P. Van Ness, American politician (d. 1852) • January 27John Lea, US epidemiologist (d. 1862) • Titumir, Bengali revolutionary (d. 1831) • January 29Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871) • Daniel Parker, Adjutant general and inspector general of the US Army (d. 1846) • Franciszek Ścigalski, Polish composer and violinist (d. 1846) • January 30Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret, French painter (d. 1863) • James Caulfeild, British politician (d. 1852) • Wincenty Krasiński, nobleman, political activist and military leader (d. 1858) • Ann Taylor, British poet and literary critic (d. 1866) February February 1Bill Johnston, American pirate (d. 1870) • February 2James Chalmers, alleged Scottish inventor of the adhesive postage stamp (d. 1853) • Henri de Rigny, commander of the French squadron at the Battle of Navarino in the Greek War of Independence (d. 1835) • February 3John Macdonald Kinneir, British diplomat (d. 1830) • John Lamont, Scottish sugar planter in Trinidad (d. 1850) • William Pinnock, British publisher and educational writer (d. 1843) • Ansel Sterling, American politician (d. 1853) • February 4Charles William Grant, 5th Baron de Longueuil (d. 1848) • Henry Lee, US political economist (d. 1867) • February 6Fyodor Tolstoy, Russian explorer (d. 1846) • February 8Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, Russian botanist (d. 1854) • Juan Cuevas Perales, Spanish composer (d. 1855) • Malla Silfverstolpe, Swedish salon-holder (d. 1861) • February 9William Havell, British artist (d. 1857) • Philip Shuttleworth, English churchman and academic, Bishop of Chichester (d. 1842) • February 10Robert Hallowell Gardiner, American land owner (d. 1864) • Jean-Marie-Nicolas Lucas de Montigny, French magistrate (d. 1852) • Niels Arntzen Sem, Norwegian politician (d. 1859) • Ashur Ware, United States federal judge (d. 1873) • February 11William Lowndes, American politician, enslaver (d. 1822) • Henri Jean de Rouvroy, Marquis of Saint-Simon, French soldier, diplomat, politician, officer (d. 1865) • February 12Auguste de Schonen, French politician (d. 1849) • February 14Eleanora Atherton, English philanthropist (d. 1870) • Ephraim Sturdivant, American veteran (d. 1868) • February 15John H. Dent, United States Navy officer (d. 1823) • William Miller, American religious leader (d. 1849) • Louis Perrin, Irish politician (d. 1864) • February 17Thomas Baxter, British artist (d. 1821) • February 19Christopher Anderson, theological writer and preacher (d. 1852) • Henry Bentley, English first-class cricketer (d. 1857) • Princess Pauline, Duchess of Sagan, Princess of Courland (d. 1845) • February 22Karl Stefan Aichelburg, Austrian musician (d. 1817) • James Towers English, Irish military commander (d. 1819) • John Gebhard, American politician (d. 1854) • Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann, German mineralogist (d. 1859) • February 23John Wilson Campbell, US federal judge (d. 1833) • Peder Nielsen Hemb, Norwegian politician (d. 1850) • Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl, Australian botanist, entomologist, geologist, physician (d. 1834) • February 24Thomas Uwins, British artist (d. 1857) • February 25William Sturgis, American merchant and politician (d. 1863) • February 26Louise Antoinette Lannes, Duchess of Montebello, French noble (d. 1856) • February 27Marie Thérèse Haze, Belgian Religious Sister and foundress, beatified (d. 1876) • February 28Josef Božek, Czech engineer and inventor (d. 1835) March March 1Suzanne le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, French noblewoman (d. 1829) • March 2Isaac Pocock, English dramatist and painter (d. 1835) • Edward Sheldon, politician (d. 1836) • March 3Joseph Edson, US Marshal for Vermont (d. 1832) • Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville, French writer and librarian (d. 1870) • March 4Gabriel-Alexandre Belle, French writer (d. 1855) • Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss writer (d. 1830) • March 5Wacław Hański, Polish noble (d. 1841) • March 6Andreas Bonnevie, Norwegian politician (d. 1833) • Karoline von Woltmann, German translator and writer (d. 1847) • March 7Henryka Beyer, Polish artist (d. 1855) • Angelo Mai, cardinal and philologist in Italy (d. 1854) • Charles Sterrett Ridgely, American land developer and legislator (d. 1847) • March 8Nicoll Halsey, American politician (d. 1865) • March 9Jean-François Boch, Luxembourgish industrialist and politician (d. 1858) • March 10Ferdinand Gottlieb von Gmelin, German physician, natural historian, chemist and explorer (d. 1848) • Charles Gray, Captain in the Royal Marines (d. 1851) • March 13Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish politician (d. 1863) • Orest Kiprensky, Russian artist (d. 1836) • Jacob Krebs, American politician (d. 1847) • Ivan Leontiev, Imperial Russian general who fought in the Napoleonic Wars (d. 1824) • March 14Thomas Hart Benton, State Senator from Tennessee (d. 1858) • Nathaniel F. Williams, American politician (d. 1864) • March 16William Graham, Indiana politician (d. 1858) • Vasili Krasovsky, Russian writer (d. 1824) • March 17Billy Caldwell, British-Potawatomi and American fur trader (d. 1841) • Franz Körte, German agronomist (d. 1845) • Sophie von Kühn, German noble (d. 1797) • John Styles, English Congregational minister and animal rights writer (d. 1849) • March 18John C. Calhoun, vice president of the United States (d. 1850) • José Gabriel de Silva-Bazán, 10th Marquess of Santa Cruz, Spanish diplomat and politician (d. 1839) • March 19Wilhelm von Biela, Austrian astronomer (d. 1856) • Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby, English politician (d. 1865) • March 20James Tod, English officer of the British East India Company, oriental scholar (d. 1835) • March 21Józef Goldtmann, Polish priest (d. 1852) • March 22James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale, British barrister and judge (d. 1868) • March 23William C. Bradley, American politician (d. 1867) • John Sudam, American politician (d. 1835) • March 24Aglaé Auguié, French court official (d. 1854) • William Owsley, 16th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1862) • March 25Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples and Sicily (d. 1839) • Edward Grey, British Anglican bishop of Hereford (d. 1837) • March 26Charles-Maurice Descombes, French playwright and literary critic (d. 1869) • Benjamin Joseph Frobisher, Canadian politician (d. 1821) • March 29Thomas Bryn, father of the Constitution of Norway, member of Stortinget (d. 1827) • John Dickinson, British inventor (d. 1869) • Stephen Reay, Scottish priest, orientalist (d. 1861) • March 31Jesse Ketchum, Canadian politician (d. 1867) • Louis-Hippolyte Lebas, French architect (d. 1867) • Samuel Prentiss, United States federal judge (d. 1857) April April 1James Daly, 1st Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal, British politician (d. 1847) • George C. Sibley, American explorer and politician (d. 1863) • April 2Johannes West, Inspector of Greenland (d. 1835) • April 3Daniel Garrison, American politician (d. 1851) • William Lyttelton, 3rd Baron Lyttelton, English Whig politician (d. 1837) • Alexander Macomb, United States Army general (d. 1841) • April 4Vincenzo Flauti, Italian mathematician (d. 1863) • George Rowley, British academic (d. 1836) • April 5James R. Manley, American physician (d. 1851) • Edward West, British economist and judge in India (d. 1828) • April 7Marie-Anne Libert, Belgian botanist and mycologist (d. 1865) • April 9Joseph Hunter Bryan, American politician (d. 1839) • April 10María Antonia Santos Plata, Neogranadine rebel leader & heroine (d. 1819) • April 11Abraham Abell, Irish antiquarian (d. 1851) • April 14Carlo Coccia, Italian composer (d. 1873) • April 15Eleazer W. Ripley, American politician (d. 1839) • April 16William Jerdan, Scottish journalist (d. 1869) • Toribio de Luzuriaga, Argentinian military personnel (d. 1842) • April 17Joseph Carne, British geologist and industrialist (d. 1858) • Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne, British diplomat (d. 1853) • April 18Georg August Goldfuss, German paleontologist, mineralogist, zoologist and botanist (d. 1848) • April 21Friedrich Fröbel, German pedagogue (d. 1852) • Samuel Hibbert-Ware, British geologist and antiquarian (d. 1848) • April 23Prince Teimuraz of Georgia, Georgian royal prince and scholar (d. 1846) • April 25Adriano Balbi, Italian geographer (d. 1848) • April 26Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen of France (d. 1866) • April 27Jeptha Vining Harris, Georgia militia Brigadier General (d. 1856) • April 28William Darlington, American physician, botanist, politician (d. 1863) • April 29James Fowle Baldwin, American engineer (d. 1862) May May 1Yevgeny Golovin, Russian general (d. 1858) • May 4James Bathurst, British Army officer (d. 1850) • Friedrich Philipp Ritterich, German ophthalmologist (d. 1866) • John R. Williams, American politician (d. 1854) • May 5Edward Richard Stewart, British politician (d. 1851) • May 6Charles-René Laitié, French sculptor (d. 1862) • Edward Charles Whinyates, English army officer (d. 1865) • May 8Ivan Paskevich, military leader of Ukrainian descent (d. 1856) • May 9Virgil Horace Barber, American Jesuit (d. 1847) • Marcia Van Ness, founded Washington Orphan Asylum in 1815 (d. 1832) • May 10Louis-René Villermé, French economist (d. 1863) • May 12Lippmann Moses Büschenthal, German poet (d. 1818) • May 13Henry A. P. Muhlenberg, American politician (d. 1844) • Johan Gustaf Sandberg, Swedish artist (d. 1854) • Ferdinand de Bertier de Sauvigny, French politician (d. 1864) • May 14John McElroy, Jesuit Priest (d. 1877) • Antoine-Marie Roederer, French politician (d. 1865) • May 16John Sell Cotman, British artist (d. 1842) • May 18John Ferneley, English painter (d. 1860) • Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, Prussian lieutenant-general (d. 1834) • Valerian Madatov, Russian general (d. 1829) • Gilbert C. Russell, American military officer (d. 1861) • May 19Rowland Stephenson, British politician (d. 1856) • Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, Russian prince and Field Marshal (d. 1856) • May 22Hirose Tansō, Japanese poet and writer (d. 1856) • May 23Christopher Crackenthorp Askew, British Royal Navy officer, captain in 1822 (d. 1848) • Charles Fothergill, Canadian politician (d. 1840) • May 26Medora Gordon Byron, British Romantic novelist (d. 1858) • Joseph Drechsler, Czech conductor, music educator, composer and organist (d. 1852) • Erasmo Seguín, head postmaster of San Antonio, Texas (d. 1857) • George Small, Scottish piano manufacturer (d. 1861) • Sir George Strickland, 7th Baronet, British politician (d. 1874) • May 27Antoni Jan Ostrowski, Polish general (d. 1845) • May 28Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, 1st Baronet, British surgeon (d. 1857) • Johann Rombauer, painter from Hungary (d. 1849) • Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk, painter from the Northern Netherlands, 1782–1810 (d. 1810) • May 29James Murray, 1st Baron Glenlyon, British Army general (d. 1837) • May 30John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer, British politician (d. 1845) • May 31Thomas Courtenay, British politician (d. 1841) June June 1Lord William FitzRoy, British Member of Parliament (d. 1857) • Thomas Van Horne, US politician and Ohio State Senator (d. 1841) • Konstantin Poltoratsky, lieutenant general of the Imperial Russian Army (d. 1858) • Ferdinand von Tiesenhausen, Russian noble and military commander (d. 1805) • June 3Charles Waterton, English naturalist, explorer and conservationist (d. 1865) • June 4Frédéric Théodore Faber, Belgian painter (d. 1844) • Christian Martin Frähn, German and Russian numismatist and historian (d. 1851) • June 5Lemuel Williams Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1869) • Ulrik Frederik Anton de Schouboe, Norwegian civil servant and politician (d. 1863) • June 6Vicenta Moguel, Basque writer and translator (d. 1854) • June 7Rowland Alston, English politician (d. 1865) • June 8Seaton Grantland, American politician (d. 1864) • June 9Peter Fisher, Canadian historian (d. 1848) • Alexander Powell, British Tory politician and MP (d. 1847) • June 10Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante, French historian and statesman (d. 1866) • Ole Christian Andersen Nøstvig, Norwegian politician (d. 1852) • June 11Richard Hill, Church of England clergyman in New South Wales (d. 1836) • June 12Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (d. 1851) • Peter Schmidt, Norwegian politician and businessman (d. 1845) • June 13Marie-Anne-Julie Forestier, French painter (d. 1853) • William Bullein Johnson, American Baptist minister (d. 1862) • June 14Anton Aloys Wolf, Prince-Bishop of Laibach (Ljubljana) (d. 1859) • June 15Alexander George Woodford, British Army officer (d. 1870) • June 16Nehemiah Eastman, American congressman for New Hampshire (d. 1856) • Olry Terquem, French mathematician (d. 1862) • June 17Joseph Slater Jr., British portrait painter and draughtsman (d. 1837) • June 18George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney, British Baron (d. 1842) • Marceli Tarczewski, Polish lawyer (d. 1843) • June 19Félicité de La Mennais, French priest, philosopher and political theorist (d. 1854) • June 20Charles Floyd, American explorer (d. 1804) • June 21Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony (d. 1863) • June 24Sir William Heygate, 1st Baronet, British MP (d. 1844) • Juan Larrea, Argentine politician (d. 1847) • Harmanus Peek, American politician (d. 1838) • June 25William O'Brien, Canadian political figure in Nova Scotia (d. 1851) • June 26Fortunée Briquet, French woman of letters (d. 1815) • Juan José Pedro Carrera, Chilean politician (d. 1818) • Peter Paul Dobrée, British classical scholar (d. 1825) • June 29Hans Christian Lyngbye, Danish priest and botanist (d. 1837) • William Stockbridge, American businessman (d. 1850) • June 30William Cathcart, Scottish naval officer (d. 1804) July July 1Pieter Hendrik van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Dutch and French army general (d. 1825) • July 2Adrien de Rougé, French statesman, soldier (d. 1838) • July 3Pierre Berthier, French geologist (d. 1861) • July 4Adèle Duchâtel, French court official (d. 1860) • July 5Mads Lauritz Madsen, Norwegian politician (d. 1840) • Arabella Menage, British actress and dancer (d. 1817) • Rosa Morandi, Italian soprano (d. 1824) • July 6Luis Brión, Venezuelan military officer (d. 1821) • Henri Antoine Jacques, French botanist (d. 1866) • Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca, Spanish Royal (d. 1824) • July 7John Myers Felder, American politician (d. 1851) • Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro, British lawyer, judge and politician (d. 1858) • July 9Tomaso Catullo, Italian noblemen, geologist, paleontologist and zoologist (d. 1869) • Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé, French painter and writer (d. 1859) • July 10Moses Elias Levy, Jewish-American businessman and reformer (d. 1854) • July 12Étienne Marc Quatremère, French orientalist (d. 1857) • July 13Thomas William Taylor, British Army officer (d. 1854) • Charlotte White, American missionary (d. 1863) • July 14Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este, Austrian archduke (d. 1863) • Jesse Elliott, United States Navy officer (d. 1845) • July 16Sophie Ørsted, Danish muse (d. 1818) • Joachim Heinrich Wilhelm Wagener, German banker and patron of the arts (d. 1861) • July 17James Cockle, British surgeon (d. 1854) • July 18Mariano Enrique Calvo, president and vice president of Bolivia (d. 1842) • July 19Jonathan Blewitt, English composer (d. 1853) • Charles Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington, Irish Earl (d. 1829) • Iinuma Yokusai, Japanese botanist and physician (d. 1865) • July 23Johann Heinrich Rosenplänter, Baltic German parish priest and linguist (d. 1846) • July 24John Fox Burgoyne, British Army officer (d. 1871) • William Temple Thomson Mason, American businessman (d. 1862) • July 25Mariano Boedo, Argentine politician (d. 1819) • Lincoln Goodale, American doctor (d. 1868) • Michael Rohde, German botanist (d. 1812) • Sir David Scott, 2nd Baronet, Member of the United Kingdom Parliament (d. 1851) • July 26John Field, Irish pianist, composer and teacher (d. 1837) • July 27Basilio Puoti, Italian lexicographer and literary critic (d. 1847) • July 28Aristaces Azaria, Armenian Catholic abbot and archbishop (d. 1855) • Thomas Burnside, American politician (d. 1851) • July 29François Liénard de la Mivoye, French zoologist and botanist (d. 1862) • Jesse Wharton, American politician (d. 1833) • July 31Oliver H. Prince, American politician (d. 1837) August August 1Johann Casimir Benicken, German jurist and judge (d. 1838) • Eugène de Mazenod, French bishop and saint (d. 1861) • August 2Johannes van Hooydonk, Dutch Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop (d. 1868) • August 4John Kerr, member of the US House of Representatives (d. 1842) • August 6William Spencer, American judge and politician (d. 1871) • August 10Vicente Guerrero, 2nd President of Mexico (d. 1831) • Matsudaira Muneakira, Japanese daimyo (d. 1840) • Charles James Napier, Governor of Sindh, Commander-in-Chief in British India (d. 1853) • August 12Ole Johansen Winstrup, Danish engineer and inventor (d. 1867) • August 13Conrad Ten Eyck, American politician (d. 1847) • August 15Carlo Brioschi, Italian astronomer (d. 1833) • James Smith of Jordanhill, Scottish merchant, geologist and biblical critic (d. 1867) • Charles Lowell, United States Unitarian minister (d. 1861) • Henri de Merode, member of the Belgian Senate and writer (d. 1847) • Faustin Soulouque, President and emperor of Haiti (d. 1867) • August 16Elderkin Potter, American politician and lawyer (d. 1845) • August 17Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri, French stage designer (d. 1868) • Pavel Martynov, Russian Lieutenant General (d. 1838) • August 18Jean-Louis Boisselot, French composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1847) • Marcellin Marbot, French general (d. 1854) • August 20Nicolas-Philibert Adelon, French physician (d. 1862) • Charles Fraser, American painter (d. 1860) • Juliana de Almeida e Oyenhausen, Russian noble (d. 1864) • August 23David Hudson, American politician (d. 1860) • August 25Charles Comte, French lawyer, journalist and political writer (d. 1837) • Joseph Heinrich Gügler, Swiss theologian (d. 1827) • Prince Carl Gustav, Duke of Småland, Swedish prince (d. 1783) • Sylvester Pattie, American frontiersman (d. 1828) • August 28Antoine Maurice Apollinaire d'Argout, French politician (d. 1858) • John Wray, barrister and the first Receiver of the London Metropolitan Police (d. 1869) • August 29John Bowman, American lawyer, banker and politician from New York (d. 1853) • Louis Antoine François de Marchangy, French advocate general, poet and politician (d. 1826) • John Augustine Smith, President of the College of William & Mary (d. 1865) • August 30Christian of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken, Bavarian general (d. 1859) • August 31Joseph H. Crane, American politician (d. 1851) • Edward Russell, American politician (d. 1835) September September 1Frances Alsop, English actor (d. 1816) • Thomas Reade, English army officer and consul in Tunis (d. 1849) • September 2Myndert Van Schaick, American politician (d. 1865) • September 3Benedict Joseph Fenwick, American Catholic bishop (d. 1846) • Christian Ludwig Nitzsch, German zoologist and botanist (d. 1837) • September 5Charles Malcolm, British Royal Navy officer (d. 1851) • Maeda Narinaga, Japanese samurai and daimyo (d. 1824) • September 6Doxachi Hurmuzachi, ethnic Romanian boyar from the Duchy of Bukovina (d. 1857) • September 7Princess Marie of Baden, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel & Brunswick-Oels (d. 1808) • Clark Bissell, American judge and politician (d. 1857) • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, Scottish novelist (d. 1854) • Crown Prince Munhyo, Crown prince of the Kingdom of Korea (d. 1786) • September 8Johan Gørbitz, Norwegian painter (d. 1853) • Mariano Montilla, Venezuelan politician (d. 1851) • September 9Andreas Andersen Feldborg, Danish writer (d. 1838) • Charles-François Painchaud, Quebec priest (d. 1838) • September 10John Ketcham, American politician (d. 1865) • September 11Fisher A. Blocksom, American politician and lawyer from Ohio (d. 1876) • Daniel Gaskell, British politician (d. 1875) • September 13William Wood, Scottish surgeon (d. 1858) • September 14Christian Magnus Falsen, jurist, father of the Constitution of Norway and member of Stortinget (d. 1830) • September 16Daoguang Emperor, Qing-dynasty Chinese emperor (d. 1850) • Hans Nilsen Gubberud, Norwegian politician (d. 1835) • September 17Christoph Hawich, German lithographer and painter (d. 1848) • September 18José Tomás Boves, Spanish general (d. 1815) • September 19Karl von Fischer, German architect (d. 1820) • Vicente Genaro de Quesada, Spanish general (d. 1836) • Robert Sale, British Army general (d. 1845) • John Wroe, British evangelist (d. 1863) • September 20Richard Dunning, 2nd Baron Ashburton, British noble (d. 1823) • Edward John Eliot, English cavalry officer (d. 1863) • September 22Pierre-Dominique Debartzch, Canadian politician (d. 1846) • Fredric Westin, Swedish painter (d. 1862) • September 23Jacques Féréol Mazas, French musician (d. 1849) • Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, German explorer, ethnologist and naturalist (d. 1867) • September 24William Symonds, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1856) • September 25Charles Maturin, Irish writer (d. 1824) • Stephen Price, theatre manager from New York City (d. 1840) • September 27Thomas M. Nelson, American politician (d. 1853) • September 28George Smith, English architect and surveyor (d. 1869) • September 29Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, British politician (d. 1850) October October 3Charles Jared Ingersoll, American politician and writer (d. 1862) • David Johnson, Governor of South Carolina (d. 1855) • Richard Peek, English philanthropist (d. 1867) • October 4James Wadmore, English art collector (d. 1853) • October 6Isidro Barrada, Spanish military personnel (d. 1835) • James Gordon, British Royal Navy officer (d. 1869) • October 7John Duer, American jurist (d. 1852) • Charles Maclaren, Scottish journalist and geologist (d. 1866) • James Lucas Yeo, British naval commander (d. 1818) • October 8Robert Lucas Chance, British glass maker (d. 1865) • October 9Lewis Cass, American military officer, politician, statesman (d. 1866) • Tilly Lynde, American politician (d. 1857) • William Holland Wilmer, American episcopal priest (d. 1827) • October 11Steen Steensen Blicher, Danish writer (d. 1848) • Christian Heinrich Bünger, German anatomist and surgeon (d. 1842) • Georg Andreas von Rosen, Russian army general (d. 1841) • Pierre-Antoine Tabeau, Canadian missionary (d. 1835) • October 12Henry Dodge, American politician and general (d. 1867) • Jared Groce, American planter, slaveowner and settler (d. 1836) • October 13Joseph Nigg, Austrian artist (d. 1863) • October 14James Gilmour, Canadian businessman (d. 1858) • October 15James Elmes, English writer and architect (d. 1862) • October 16Alois Pichl, Austrian architect (d. 1856) • Hamelin Trelawny, British politician (d. 1856) • October 18Joseph M. Street, Iowa pioneer, trader and US Indian Agent (d. 1840) • Karl Friedrich Eusebius Trahndorff, German philosopher (d. 1863) • October 19J. T. Wedgwood, British engraver (d. 1856) • October 20Christian Blom, Norwegian composer (d. 1861) • October 24William Norton Shinn, American politician (d. 1871) • October 25Iosif Ivanovich Charlemagne, Russian architect (d. 1861) • Levi Lincoln Jr., Massachusetts Governor and Congressman (d. 1868) • Sir William Verner, 1st Baronet, British politician (d. 1871) • October 26Carlo Tancredi Falletti di Barolo, Italian politician and mayor (d. 1838) • Charles Goodall, English cricketer (d. 1872) • October 27Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840) • October 28Henry Meigs, American politician (d. 1861) • October 30Lorenzo Maria of Saint Francis Xavier, Italian saint (d. 1856) November November 1Joseph von Blumenthal, Austrian musician (d. 1850) • F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1859) • Adam Ditlev Wedell-Wedellsborg, Dano-Norwegian government official (d. 1827) • November 2Eustoquio Díaz Vélez, Spanish-Argentine general (d. 1856) • November 3Lewis Warrington, United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1851) • November 4John Branch, American politician (d. 1863) • Nanbu Toshitaka, Japanese samurai, 10th daimyō of Morioka Domain, northern Japan (d. 1820) • November 6Maha Bandula, Burmese general (d. 1825) • November 7Friedrich Karl Gustav, Baron von Langenau, Austrian field marshal (d. 1840) • Edward Hawker, Royal Navy officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars (d. 1860) • John Pye, English landscape engraver (d. 1874) • November 11Francis Blackburne, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (d. 1867) • Nathan Dunn, American collector (d. 1844) • Elihu Embree, American abolitionist and newspaper editor (d. 1820) • November 12William Hendricks, American politician (d. 1850) • Granville Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort, British naval commander and Whig politician (d. 1868) • James Wedderburn, Solicitor General for Scotland (d. 1822) • November 13Sir Alexander Grant, 8th Baronet, British politician (d. 1854) • Joseph Kornhäusel, Austrian architect (d. 1860) • Esaias Tegnér, Swedish poet, professor and bishop (d. 1846) • November 16Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto, British politician (d. 1859) • Thomas Whitmore, English politician (d. 1846) • November 17Conrad Graf, German piano maker (d. 1851) • November 19John McCarty, American politician (d. 1851) • November 20Alexander Macdonell of Greenfield, Canadian politician and businessman (d. 1835) • Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os, painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. 1861) • November 21William Tippet, Anglo-Indian Judge and Magistrate (d. 1824) • November 22Richard Bagot, Bishop of Oxford, Dean of Canterbury (d. 1854) • Sophie Swetchine, Russian salon-holder (d. 1857) • November 25George Tillson, American industrialist (d. 1864) • Thomas Contee Worthington, American politician (d. 1847) • November 26Karl Johann Bernhard Karsten, German mineralogist (d. 1853) • Johan Christopher Ræder, Norwegian politician (d. 1853) • November 28John R. Drake, American politician (d. 1857) • November 29Henry Walton Ellis, British Army officer (d. 1815) • November 30Giuseppe Moretti, Italian botanist (d. 1853) December December 2Gerard Thomas Noel, British cleric (d. 1851) • December 3John E. Coffee, American politician (d. 1836) • Henry William Pickersgill, British artist (d. 1875) • December 5Martin Van Buren, 8th president of the United States (d. 1862) • Sir George Warrender, 4th Baronet, British politician (d. 1849) • December 7James Earickson, American politician (d. 1844) • Nicolaus Michael Oppel, German naturalist (d. 1820) • Joseph Trumbull, American politician and lawyer (d. 1861) • December 9Waleria Tarnowska, Polish painter and art collector (d. 1849) • December 10Thomas William Brotherton, British general (d. 1868) • Charles Nicolas Fabvier, French military personnel, politician and diplomat (d. 1855) • Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl, German philosopher, educationist, musicologist and musician (d. 1849) • December 11George Barnes, English archdeacon (d. 1847) • Johann Friedrich Müller, German copperplate engraver (d. 1816) • December 12Marie-Victoire Baudry, Canadian superior general (d. 1846) • December 13John Clitherow, British Army general (d. 1852) • December 16Hans Jakob Oeri, Swiss painter (d. 1868) • Louis-Barthélémy Pradher, French composer, pianist and music educator (d. 1843) • Diego Bautista Urbaneja, Venezuelan politician (d. 1856) • December 17James Fullarton, Scottish soldier who fought in the Kandyan Wars (d. 1834) • December 19Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, Czech botanist, surgeon, doctor and mycologist (d. 1843) • December 21Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier, French composer (d. 1838) • Randolph Isham Routh, British commissariat officer (d. 1858) • December 22Jean Bélanger, Canadian politician (d. 1827) • December 23William Armstrong, American lawyer, civil servant, politician, businessperson (d. 1865) • Johann Anton Weinmann, German botanist (d. 1858) • December 24Therese Brunetti, Austrian actress (d. 1864) • Charles Hubert Millevoye, poet from France (d. 1816) • December 25Victory Birdseye, American politician (d. 1853) • Nathaniel Fish Moore, American university administrator (d. 1872) • December 26Philaret Drozdov, Russian bishop (d. 1867) • December 27Samuel Hood, Anglican Dean of Argyll and The Isles (d. 1872) • Henry Vail, American politician (d. 1853) • December 28Joseph Arnold, English naval surgeon and naturalist (d. 1818) • Matthias Joseph de Noël, German writer and art collector (d. 1849) • Cajetan von Textor, German physician (d. 1860) • December 29François-Joseph Grille, French librarian (d. 1853) • William Lloyd, British army officer (d. 1857) • Benjamin Woodworth, American politician (d. 1874) • December 30John Freeman Milward Dovaston, British poet and naturalist (d. 1854) • Jonas Anton Hielm, Norwegian politician (d. 1848) • December 31Konstantin Bulgakov, Russian diplomat and postal director (d. 1835) • Jean-Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup, French naturalist (d. 1861) == Deaths ==
Deaths
January 2Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735) • January 4Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (b. 1698) • January 18John Pringle, Scottish physician (b. 1707) • January 28Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer and cartographer (b. 1697) • January 30Vasily Dolgorukov-Krymsky, Russian general (b. 1722) • February 9Giuseppe Luigi Assemani, Syrian orientalist (b. 1710) • February 10Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702) • March 1John A. Treutlen, Governor of Georgia (b. 1734) • March 2Sophie of France, French princess (b.1734) • March 9Sava II Petrović-Njegoš, Metropolitan of Cetinje (b. 1702) • March 17Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematical physicist (b. 1700) • April 7Taksin the Great, King of Siam (Thonburi Kingdom) (b. 1734) • April 13Metastasio, Italian poet, librettist (b. 1698) • April 17Baal Shem of London, British Kabbalist (b. 1708) • April 22Josef Seger, Czech composer and organist (b. 1716) • April 28William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (b. 1710) • May 8Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese statesman (b. 1699) • May 15Richard Wilson, British painter (b. 1714) • May 16Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736) • May 20William Emerson, English mathematician (b. 1701) • May 20Axel Lagerbielke, Swedish admiral and statesman (b. 1703) • May 22Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1752) • June 11William Crawford, American soldier and surveyor (burned at the stake by Native Americans) (b. 1732) • June 18John Wood, the Younger, English architect (b. 1728) • June 21Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, German prince (b. 1722) • July 1Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, British statesman, 2-time Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1730) • July 15Farinelli, Italian castrato (b. 1705) • August 27John Laurens, American soldier (b. 1754) • August 31George Croghan, American colonist (b. c. 1718) • September 5Bartolina Sisa, Bolivian indigenous Aymara heroine, rebel leader (b. c. 1750) • September 6Gregoria Apaza, Bolivian indigenous leader (b. 1751) • Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748) • September 14Nicholas Cooke, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1717) • October 2Charles Lee, Continental Army general during the American War of Independence (b. 1732) • November 5James Burrow, British scholar (b. 1701) • November 21Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (b. 1709) • December 7Hyder Ali, Indian general, Sultan of Mysore (b. 1720) • December 11–William Beadle, Anglo-American merchant (b. 1730) • December 16William Cole (antiquary), British antiquarian (b. 1714) • December 27Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish advocate and philosopher (b. 1697) • date unknownChristine Kirch, German astronomer (b. 1696) • Sabina Aufenwerth, German potter (b. 1706) • Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Swedish botanist (b. 1743) == References ==
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