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John Field (July 26, 1782 – January 23, 1837) was an Irish composer and pianist. The Classical era at the time of John Field highlighted the ...

Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer and politician. He was the nominee of the Democratic Party for ...

height and seeming invulnerability. In 1782, the French, under Admiral ... Admiral Hood. Shortly afterward, in April 1782, he was defeated and taken ...

His career included service at the Continental Congress of 1781-1782; member of the state house of representatives 1778-1780, 1785, and 1786; ...

Hyder Ali or Haidar 'Ali (c. 1722 - 1782), was the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India. A soldier-adventurer, Haider ...

seven others. All of them were published in 1782 under the title Poems by William ... * John Gilpin, 1782 * The Task, 1785 * Homer's Iliad and Odyssey ...

(Ch'ing) Hsüan-Tsung) (September 16, 1782 – February 25, 1850) was ... The Daoguang Emperor was born Mianning (綿寧) on September 16, 1782 ...

From 1769 until 1782, she was an annual exhibitor at the Academy, ... more than any artist he knew. In 1782 she lost her father, but became ...

Robert Morrison (born January 5, 1782 in Bullers Green, near Morpeth, Northumberland; died August 1, 1834 in Canton) was a Scottish missionary ...

Mathews, and sister of Governor John Mathews (1782-1783). They had five children but only their son Daniel survived childhood. Elizabeth died in Philadelphia ...

* Boswell: Laird of Auchinleck 1778-1782 * Boswell: The Applause of the Jury, 1782-1785 * Boswell: The English ...

elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1782, he met personally with King ... the first of these being published in 1782. He orignally tracked double ...

of the Académie des Sciences, and, in 1782, secretary of the Académie ... title= Seat 39Académie française | years=1782–1794 | ...

Pietro Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, (January 13, 1698 – April 12, 1782) was an Italian poet best known for his songs ...

known as the Treaty of Salbai, was signed in May 1782, and was ratified by Hastings in June 1782 and by Phadnis in February 1783. The treaty also returned ...

thirteenth century and last carried out in 1782, although not abolished until 1867. ... man was drawn and quartered was in August 1782. The victim, Scottish spy ...

John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was a leading United States senator, vice president, and political philosopher from ...

Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (or Froebel) (April 21, 1782 – ... The Story of Friedrich Froebel, 1782-1852. Autolycus Publications ...

Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (October 27, 1782 – May 27, 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He is one of the ...

friend and associate until his premature death in 1782. ... Under the Tory administration of Lord Frederick North (1770 – 1782 ...

In 1782 appeared Fonvizin's second and best comedy The Minor, which definitely classed him as the foremost of Russian playwrights. His last ...

subsequent ones, was not published until 1782, four years after his death. ... Jacques Rousseau (Les Confessions), 1770, published 1782 ...

was born near Belper, Derbyshire, Britain. In 1782, Slater was apprenticed to a local factory master, Jedediah Strutt, who had been doing business ...

portraiture. The Death of Major Pearson (1782-1784) celebrates the 1781 ... Watson's portrait on December 5, 1782, after listening to George ...

:Vol. X: 3 December 1781 to 6 April 1782. ISBN 0-8078-2419-4. :Vol. XI: 7 April 1782 to 30 September 1782. ISBN 0-8078-2551-4. ...

However, he escaped to France and his son, John (d. 1782) was the father of William Murray Nairne, who was restored to the barony of Nairne in 1824, ...

of the former King Taksin, who had been deposed in 1782, revolted. Prince Tub led the Royal Police against Prince Kasutranuchit. After Prince Kasutranuchit ...

Appleby. He was also a justice of the peace. In 1782 he became Archdeacon of Carlisle. At the suggestion of his friend John Law (son of Edward Law, Bishop ...

*Carlo Broschi (Farinelli) (1705–1782) *Gaetano Majorano (Caffarelli ... *Giovanni Manzuoli (1720–1782) *Gaetano Guadagni (1725–1792) ...

He also fought with Lord Howe at Gibraltar in 1782. Between 1783 and ... |1 January 1782||Lieutenant||HMS Princess Amelia (80) |- ...

|serviceyears= 1757-1782 |rank= Lieutenant Colonel, Brigadier General ... the South Carolina State Senate starting in 1782, and in 1784, in recognition ...

from the time of his father's death in 1782 until his own demise in 1799 ... When his father died in 1782, he succeeded as de facto ruler of Mysore ...

strengths. She followed with Cecilia in 1782, Camilla in 1796, and The ... In 1782, she published Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress, written ...

East. The low point on the frontier came in 1782 with the Gnadenhutten massacre ... outpost at Pensacola, Florida. On May 8, 1782, Gálvez captured the British ...

#039;s General Orders of August 7, 1782, and is the oldest military ... New York headquarters on August 7, 1782, it stated, "Let it be ...

On August 4, 1782, against his father's wishes, he married Constanze ... The year 1782 was an auspicious one for Mozart's career: His ...

#039;s "Badge for Military Merit (1782)" as the Purple Heart. That same year he also successfully advocated for conversion of the ...

on his land. Later, a survey of Cardington in 1782 found that he was paying for the education of 23 children. In 1758, Howard married Henrietta ...

Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862), nicknamed Old Kinderhook, was the eighth president of the United States. He was a key ...

|term_end4 = January 31, 1782 |birthdate = September 17, 1739 ... British from South Carolina. In January, 1782, John Rutledge’s term of ...

during the reign of King Kirti Sri Rajasinha (1747-1782), the famous Buddhist revivalist. In addition to the fifty Buddha statues, a statue of the king ...

Daniel François Esprit Auber (January 29, 1782 – May 13, 1871) was a French composer who became an important contributor to the French opera ...

in the leg and spent the winter of 1781-1782 at Fort Detroit. From 1781 ... Croghan and the westward movement, 1741-1782. The Great Pennsylvania frontier ...

| binomial_authority = (Molina, 1782) }} Vicuña is the common name for a rare, wild, gregarious South American camelid, Vicugna vicugna, found ...

by Johann Karl August Musäus published in 1782-7. The earlier collections, however, made little pretense to strict fidelity to sources. The ...

After Yorktown, Knox was promoted to major general. In 1782, he was given command of the post at West Point. In 1783, he was one of the founders ...

In 1738, Swiss physician and mathematician Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) published Hydrodynamica, which laid the basis for the kinetic theory ...

state legislature) on September 22, 1782, which allowed Lynch to pursue ... and pro-British Tories in his district circa 1782. In these cases only ...

was established in many lodges. In 1782 at the Convent of Wilhelmsbad ... After 1782, this highly secretive society - a secret society that ...

borders. He worked for a time in Edinburgh and in 1782 he moved to London where (after meeting architects Robert Adam and Sir William Chambers) he was ...

was sent to Old Mill Prison, where he died in March 1782, several months after the surrender of the British commander in the field, General Charles Cornwallis ...

Wedgwood to invest in steam-powered engines, and in 1782, Etruria was the first factory to install such an engine. As a result of the close association ...

of Baron Gottfried van Swieten in Vienna around 1782. Van Swieten, during diplomatic service in Berlin, had taken the opportunity to collect as many manuscripts ...

and saw much active service between 1779 and 1782, including participating in the Battle of the Chesapeake. In the memorable engagement of the Battle ...

frigate of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1782, notorious for the mutiny which took place aboard her. * Mutiny on the Bounty happened aboard ...

treaty, which was signed on November 30, 1782. Before these negotiations began, Adams had spent some time in the Netherlands. In July 1780, he ...

meaning "earth") was discovered in 1782 by the Hungarian Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (Müller Ferenc) in Transylvania. Another Hungarian ...

and lodging in place of charitable grants. In 1782, the passing of Gilbert’s Union Act simplified the procedure for parishes to establish workhouses ...

|term_start5 =July 10, 1782 |term_end5 =March 31, 1783 ... After Lord North's ministry collapsed in 1782, the Whig Charles ...

Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum era. Webster first ...

In 1782, Blake met John Flaxman, who was to become his patron. In the same year he met Catherine Boucher. At the time, Blake was recovering from ...

and fought in the Battle of Blue Licks in 1782, one of the last battles of ... Assembly, which was held in Richmond. In 1782, he was elected sheriff of ...

did not believe in the antiquity of the poems. In 1782 a new edition of Rowley's poems appeared, with a "Commentary, in which the antiquity ...

and genre most typifies the Classical era. In 1782, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, founded his Imperial Wind Ensemble in Vienna. Harmoniemusik had ...

his wife asked for a judicial separation in 1782. She was defended by Jean ... published after his liberation in 1782. It exhibits an accurate knowledge ...

isolated the oxide of the metal from molybdenite. In 1782, Hjelm isolated an impure extract of the metal by reducing the oxide with carbon. Molybdenum ...

| established_date3 = 1768–1782 | established_event4 = Rattanakosin ... the Great, until a coup d'etat in 1782. The current Ratthanakosin ...

In 1782, poor law reformer Thomas Gilbert finally succeeded in passing an act that established poor houses solely for the aged and the infirmed ...

of State for the Southern Department from 1779 to 1782, and Lord President of the Council in 1783. He supported Lord Camden's decision against ...

Tory Lord North subsequently resigned in 1782. George III finally accepted ... In 1782, after 12 years in office, the ministry of Lord North collapsed ...

In 1782 he returned to the legislature of his native state, where he served until 1796. Edward was one of the most powerful political leaders ...

finally promoted to full general on November 20, 1782, and later transferred to command the 11th dragoons. Gage died on the Isle of Portland on April ...

John C. Calhoun was born near there on March 18, 1782. Calhoun practiced law in the city before beginning his political career. Calhoun became a congressman ...

Monroe was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1782 and served in the Continental Congress (1783–1786). As a youthful politician ...

| caption = Self-portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782. | birthname = Marie Élisabeth-Louise Vigée | birthdate = 1755|4|16|mf=y ...

*Jane, born in 1782, died in 1897 *Jesse, born in 1784 or 1785; killed by his half-brother, John, in 1812 (No reason is given for the deaths of ...

married a widow, Martha Wayles Skelton (1748-1782). [https://www.whitehouse ... (1780-1781), and a second Lucy Elizabeth (1782-1785). Martha Wayles Skelton ...

language "Methodical Encyclopaedia" of 1782 defines a menagerie as an "establishment of luxury and curiosity." Later on the term was ...

feeling. After her mother’s death in 1782, Mary moved in with Fanny and her family, and worked to support them as well as her younger sisters. ...

Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence . 1782. Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0199570737 * Bentham, Jeremy. Panopticon. 1785. Verso ...

the Same and the Oldest History of the Human Spirit (1782-3) *God. Some Conversations (1787) 1785-95 *Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Humanity ...

William Cowper wrote a popular poem, "Boadicea, an Ode" in 1782. [http://www.bartleby.com/41/320.html Boadicea, an ode], Bartleby.com ...

Thonburi. When Taksin's reign ended in 1782, King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke ... is the Grand Palace, which dates to 1782 and has housed Thailand's ...

Street. The main building was constructed between 1782 and 1793 to a Neo-Palladian design by Matvei Kazakov and rebuilt after Fire of Moscow (1812) ...

In 1782, a gentleman by the name of John Locust discovered the coffin of Queen Catherine at the ruins of the Sudeley Castle chapel. He opened ...

The last eruptive period took place in 1781-1782. This episode ended shortly before the arrival of Lewis and Clark in 1805. The U.S. Geological ...

in controversy over religion and politics. In 1782, he published The History of the Corruption of Christianity, which was officially burned by the ...

of Greek and Roman artifacts to the museum in 1782. In the early nineteenth century, the foundations for the extensive collection of sculptures ...

In June 1782, Jones was appointed to command the 74-gun America, however Congress decided to give the America to the French as replacement for ...

attention was The Nightmare, exhibited in 1782. He painted this after a failed romance with Lavater's niece Anna Landolt and it is thought ...

Two more patents were granted for these in 1781 and 1782. Numerous other improvements that made for easier manufacture and installation were continually ...

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From 1782 to 1818, a wave of slaveholders inspired by the Revolutionary ... Selected Virginia Counties, ca. 1782-1818,] Utah State University ...

[[Image:Mozart (unfinished) by Lange 1782.jpg|thumb|350px|Unfinished ... * John Field (1782-1837) * Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) ...

* Vom Geist der Hebräischen Poesie 1782–1783 * Ideen zur Philosophie ... *Symphony in C sharp minor VB 140 (1782) *Symphony in C minor VB 142 (1783) ...

extorted from the British government in 1782; and, himself an Anglican, he urged co-operation between the different religious sects in Ireland ...

It was translated into a European language in 1782 by French Jesuit Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, as Art Militaire des Chinois, and that name probably ...

concerns the influence of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1782) and Swedenborgian writers on Sadhu Sundar Singh. Sharpe refers to correspondence between Singh ...

In 1782, Marshall entered politics, winning a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, in which he served until 1789, and again from 1795–1796 ...

fell out with his congregation and came to London in 1782, where his friends encouraged him to earn his living at writing. === Early Writing === ...

* Aux insurgents d'Amérique (1782) * Salons ==References== *Bremner, G. Order and Change: The Pattern of Diderot’s Thought. Cambridge: ...

The French captured the colony in 1782 and developed this town, making it their capital city, La Nouvelle Ville. To guard against the dangers ...

Murillo (about 1650), bought by Louis XVI about 1782; Bathsheba at Her Bath, Rembrandt (1654); and Ex Voto, Philippe de Champaigne (1662), seized in ...

* Muling for Emperor Daoguang (1782-1850, the 6th emperor) * Chongling for Emperor Guangxu (1871-1908, the 9th emperor) The Western Qing tombs ...

[http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/1782.htm Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1782]. Retrieved March 21, 2023. In certain situations ...

half-sisters. Martha Jefferson died in 1782, leaving the Hemings family to her husband, Thomas. The Hemings family was at the top of the slave ...

(1350 – 1767), the Taksin Kingdom (1768 – 1782, also known as the Thonburi Kingdom) and the Chakri Kingdom (1782-present). [http://www.thailandsworld ...

offices in the short-lived ministries of 1782 and 1783. He was under-secretary for foreign affairs in the Rockingham ministry, and a secretary ...

175px|Peter Spencer, born a slave in Maryland in 1782, founded the first independent black Christian Church in Delaware in 1813, the A.U.M.P. Church.]] ...

used today. It was coined by Volta in 1782 (derived from the Italian condensatore), with reference to the device's ability to store a higher ...

*The Strange Life of Charles Waterton 1782-1865 (1949) *A Bibliography of the Works of Richard Aldington from 1915 to 1948 (1950) with Alister Kershaw ...

its name by Swedish chemist Torbern Bergman in 1782. He chose "ammonia" because he had obtained "the gas … from sal ammoniac, salt ...

The Glorious First of June (also known as the Third Battle of Ushant, and in France as the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2 or Combat de Prairial) ...

fell to Spanish forces under General Galvez in 1782. After the American Revolution, the British government issued land grants to a group of British ...

by George Washington on August 7, 1782, when he created the Badge of Military Merit, designed to recognize "any singularly meritorious action ...

William Miller (1782-1849), a Baptist who inspired the Seventh Day Adventist movement, had predicted Jesus' return for the year 1843. He ...

criminal judge for the diocese of Arras in March 1782. Though his sister claimed that he immediately resigned to avoid sentencing anyone to death, this ...

Its national significance dates back to June 20 1782, when the Continental Congress officially adopted the current design for the Great Seal ...

*1782: Der Erlkönig (The Alder King) *1790: Römische Elegien (Roman Elegies) *1794: Reineke Fuchs *1797: Der Zauberlehrling (The Sorcerer's ...

*The Faculty of Medicine, including the Medical School (1782) and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (1867). *Harvard Divinity School (1816) ...

tried to help the younger composer. During the years 1782 to 1785, Mozart wrote a set of string quartets thought to be inspired by Haydn's Opus 33 ...

*The Nok Kaeo Version (1782) *CS 1145 Version (1783) *Sanggitiyavamsa--Pali chronicle compiled by Phra Phonnarat, generally discussing Buddhism ...

in France. Félicité Robert de Lamennais (1782-1854) argued that true certitude comes not from individual reason but from the universal consent ...

*KG: Knight of the Garter, 1782 ===Arms=== His arms were those of his two kingdoms, the United Kingdom and Hanover, superimposed:- Quarterly, ...

continued by John Sell Cotman, of Norfolk, 1782-1842, with his neatness and vigor. [[Image:John Constable 008.jpg|thumb|300px|right|An example ...

fighting in the American Revolution, and, in 1782, married the young woman who had nursed him back to health. The Bowies moved a great deal, first settling ...

a member of the Congress of the Confederation from 1782 to 1783, and then retired to open his own law office in New York City. He founded the Bank of ...

French and published in 1772 (re-published in 1782) by the French Jesuit Jean Joseph Marie Amiot. A partial translation into English was attempted by ...

When Ireland experienced an earlier famine in 1782-1783, ports were closed in order to keep home grown food for domestic consumption. Food prices ...

Tokyo was hit by powerful earthquakes in 1703, 1782, 1812, 1855 and 1923. The 1923 earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 8.3 on the Richter ...

studies and was admitted to the bar at Albany in 1782. He began to practice in New York City after its evacuation by the British in the following year ...

eighty men on shore to catch Negroes.” Between 1782 and 1807, Britain traded over one million human lives. In the colonies of the British Empire, ...

Board of Trade and Plantations from 1779 until 1782, when the Board was abolished. The subsequent promise of an embassy position in Paris never materialized ...

*John Hanson (November 5, 1781– November 3, 1782) *Elias Boudinot (November 4, 1782– November 2, 1783) *Thomas Mifflin ...

moved the royal capital back to Amarapura in 1782. He was titled Hsinbyumyashin (Lord of the White Elephants), although he became known to posterity ...

Mozart's Singspiele, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782) and Die Zauberflöte (1791) were an important breakthrough in achieving international ...

in recorded history. Prior to 2004, in 1782 the deadliest recorded tsunami in the Pacific Ocean with 40,000 people killed by a tsunami in the ...

retain the purity of their music and dance. In 1782, the Leniency Edict of Charles III restored some freedoms to the Spanish Gypsies. Their music and ...

accorded the rights of belligerents. In 1782, by act of Parliament, they were officially recognized as prisoners of war rather than traitors ...

was elected superior of the Society in 1782. Pius VII during his captivity in France, had resolved to restore the Jesuits universally; and after ...

death of Major Peirson, John Singleton Copley, 1782-1784.]] The eighteenth century was a period of political tension between Britain and France ...

de Genlis's Adèle et Théodore (1782), Trimmer commissioned sets ... *Sacred History (1782–1785) (six volumes) *The Œconomy of Charity (1786) ...

a law limiting each Jewish family to one son. In 1782, Joseph II abolished most of persecution practices in his Toleranzpatent, on the condition that ...

Spanish descent, and Louise Cabrol (1724–1782), from Geneva.René Sigrist ... In 1782, Marat published his "favorite work," a Plan de ...

[[Image:Tipu Sultan BL.jpg|thumb|300px|Tipu Sultan (1782 – 1799), took Mysore to the height of its military power]] Though illiterate, Haider ...

[[Image:Cebdenjab.jpg|thumb|left|Imperial Prince Cebdenjab (1705-1782). The son a Khalkha Mongol Prince Tseren, Cebdenjab was a Manchu general ...

Whigs, led by the Earl of Shelburne, took power in 1782, only to collapse after Rockingham's death. The new government, led by the radical politician ...

foremost in espousing these new ideals. As early as 1782 he issued the Patent of Toleration for the Jews of Lower Austria, thereby establishing the civic ...

Sicily, the Inquisition functioned until March 30, 1782, when it was abolished by king Ferdinand IV. It is estimated that 200 people were executed during ...

[[Image:Robert Morrison 1782-1834.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Robert Morrison of the London Missionary Society]] As a result of contact with foreign ...

* John C. Calhoun (1782 – 1850), born near Abbeville, a statesman and political philosopher. From 1811 until his death, Calhoun served in the ...

annexed to France from 1782 to 1789 were allowed to send deputations. According to its own rule, the Convention elected its President every fortnight ...

the Bank of San Carlos as it was founded in 1782, it was later renamed to Bank ... pdf The Banco de España, 1782–2017: The history of a central ...

de Laclos in Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) depicts a group of aristocrats playing games of intrigue and amorality. ===The social context=== ...