Events from the year 1782 in the United States. January 7 – The first American commercial bank (Bank of North America) opens in Philadelphia. January 15 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the United States Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.

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.

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Historical Events for the Year 1782. 7th January » The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens. 11th January » American Revolutionary War: French troops Siege of Brimstone Hill called begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts.

January 1782 The evacuation of loyalists begins. Largely unwelcome in the new United States, about 100,000 Americans who remained loyal to the crown find new lives in Britain, Canada, and British colonies in the West Indies.

Events from the year 1782 in the United States. President of the Confederation Congress: John Hanson (until November 4), Elias Boudinot (starting November 4) January 3 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Videau's Bridge. January 7 – The first American commercial bank (Bank of North America) opens in Philadelphia.

Telluride minerals are first discovered in a gold mine in Kleinschlatten, Transylvania (modern-day Zlatna, Romania) by Austrian mineralogist Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein.; Winter 1782–83 – Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace begin to use the world's first ice calorimeter to determine the heat evolved in various chemical changes (calculations based on Joseph Black's prior ...

Nov 13, 2009 · In 1782, the newly elected British Prime Minister Lord Shelburne saw American independence as an opportunity to build a lucrative trade alliance with the new nation without the administrative...