1782 in the United States

1782 in the United States
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Years:	1779 1780 1781 – 1782 – 1783 1784 1785
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Events from the year 1782 in the United States.

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 U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
• February 5 – In Ohio, the Gnadenhutten massacre of Native Americans takes place in which 29 men, 27 women, and 34 children are killed by white militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by another Native American group.
• March 8 – American Revolutionary War: Gnadenhutten massacre
• March 22 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Little Mountain

April–June

June 11:Crawford expedition: Native Americans burning Colonel William Crawford at the stake.

June 20: Great Seal of the United States

• May 25–June 12 – American Revolutionary War: Crawford expedition
• June 20 – Congress accepts Charles Thomson's design for the Great Seal of the United States. The Bald Eagle becomes the national bird of the United States.^[1]

July–September

• July 1 – American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
• August 7 – George 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).
• August 8 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Piqua
• August 15–17 – American Revolutionary War: Siege of Bryan Station
• August 19 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks
• August 26 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of the Combahee River

October–December

• November 30 – American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized in the Treaty of Paris).

Undated

• In the summer of 1782 the Dutch banker Nicolaas van Staphorst leads discussions with John Adams over a loan to the United States of five million guilders, at that time a considerable sum.
• The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates Washington, North Carolina.

Ongoing

• American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
• Articles of Confederation in effect (1781–1788)

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Ongoing

• American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
• Articles of Confederation in effect (1781–1788)

References

External links

• Media related to 1782 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons