1782 in History

Captures the French ship of the line, Pegase

Captures all of Minorca except for Port Mahon

Appointed Foreign Secretary, 1st term

Appointed Foreign Secretary

Appointed Home Secretary

Appointed Leader of the House of Commons

Marries Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna.

American-British Peace talks begin when Benjamin Franklin meets Richard Oswald

Parliament votes to abandon the American War of Independence

Parliament enacts legislation empowering the Crown to negotiate peace with the US

Puts his signature to the preliminary peace Treaty

Created Baron Rodney of Rodney Stoke, Somerset, by patent, and the House of Commons vote him a pension of 2000 pounds a year

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain

Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States

Resigns after Britains defeat

Appointed Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1st term

The Abduction from the Seraglio premieres at the Burgtheater.

The Treaty of Commerce & Friendship is signed with Holland, negotiated by John Adams

Birth of Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon

Tipu defeats Colonel Braithwaite's East India Company force near the Coleroon in February 1782.

Loses control of the Caribbean to the British

Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Hoods flagship Barfleur, 98 guns. Hood is made an Irish peer for his role in the victory at the Battle of the Saintes

Final sea Battle of the War of American Independence fought between the British West Indies fleet commanded by Admiral Rodney

Introduces the tactic of breaking the line, this Rodney did against de Grasse as the two fleets passed on opposing courses and the French line was forced into more open order by a change of wind.

Rodney's flagship, Formidable has 98 guns. Restores control of Caribbean by defeating a French fleet under de Grasse off Dominica.

with 36 ships of the line and his French counterpart Vice Admiral the Comte de Grasse with 30 ships of the line. Captures 7 ships