24 February 1782PeaceFrederick North Guildford, 2nd
Parliament votes to abandon the American War of Independence
Historical records for Great Britain in 1782, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Parliament votes to abandon the American War of Independence
Resigns after Britains defeat
Parliament enacts legislation empowering the Crown to negotiate peace with the US
Appointed Home Secretary
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
Captures the French ship of the line, Pegase
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
Appointed Leader of the House of Commons
Appointed Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1st term
Birth of Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon
Publication of "A history of the Corruption of Christianity"
Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1st term
William Herschel begins a survey program in 1782 using larger telescopes and was able to resolve the stars in all 33 of the known globular clusters. When William Herschel began his comprehensive survey of the sky using large telescopes in 1782 there were 34 known globular clusters. Herschel discovered another 36 himself and was the first to resolve virtually all of them into stars
The French commander De Grasse, who had been responsible for the victory at Chesapeake is captured and taken back to Britain as a prisoner. Hood takes part in a British fleet under Rodney which defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet which was planning an invasion of Jamaica
Appoined King's Astronomer
Appointed "The King's Astronomer"
Appointed Lord Privy Seal, 2nd term
James watt patents a double-acting rotary steam engine
Raised to the peerage after the Battle of the Saints
Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 2nd term
Appointed Privy Councillor
Escorts convoy operations connected with Quebec and North America.
Hood takes part in a British fleet under Rodney which defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet which was planning an invasion of Jamaica
Serves under Rockingham but resigns when he is succeeded by Shelburne
Appointed Treasurer of the Navy, 1st term
Commences peace negotiations
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