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Birthday September 22, 1782

• The temperature on September 22, 1782 was about 15.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. 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
  • March 8 » Gnadenhutten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity, are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indian tribes.
  • March 16 » Anglo-Spanish War (1779): Action of 16 March 1782.
  • March 27 » Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • 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.
  • September 13 » American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
  • 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

• 1743 » Quintin Craufurd, Scottish author († 1819)
• 1762 » Elizabeth Simcoe, English-Canadian painter and author († 1850)
• 1765 » Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician and philosopher († 1822)
• 1788 » Theodore Hook, English composer and educator († 1841)
• 1791 » Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist († 1867)
• 1819 » Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian and academic († 1897)