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Birthday November 2, 1782

• The temperature on November 2, 1782 was about 4.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1782: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 5 » Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
  • March 16 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
  • March 16 » Anglo-Spanish War (1779): Action of 16 March 1782.
  • August 7 » George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
  • August 19 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks: The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
  • November 30 » American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1766 » Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal († 1858)
• 1777 » Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor and translator († 1822)
• 1795 » James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States († 1849)
• 1799 » John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon († 1885)
• 1799 » Titian Peale, American entomologist and photographer († 1885)
• 1808 » Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French author and critic († 1889)