1782 in France

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Events from the year 1782 in France :

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XVI ^[1]

Events

Battle of Saint Kitts

• 25-26 January – Battle of Saint Kitts (American Revolutionary War): A French fleet under the Comte de Grasse clashes with the British in the West Indies
• 17 February – Battle of Sadras (Anglo-French War (1778–1783)): A French fleet under the Baillie de Suffren clashes with the British in the Bay of Bengal
• 22 February – Capture of Montserrat from the British
• 12 April – Battle of the Saintes: A French fleet under de Grasse is defeated by a British fleet under Admiral Rodney
• 19 April – Battle of the Mona Passage: Four French ships are captured by the British
• 6 July – Battle of Negapatam: A French fleet clashes with the British in the Bay of Bengal
• 14 December – The Montgolfier brothers first test fly a hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2 km (1.2 mi) ^[2]
• Ironworks at Le Creusot established; first smelting with coke in France ^[3]

Arts and culture

Music

• 1 January – First performance of the opera Colinette à la cour

Births

• 18 August – Marcellin Marbot, general (died 1854)
• 28 August – Antoine Maurice Apollinaire d'Argout, statesman, minister and governor (died 1858)

Full date missing

• Charles-René Laitié, sculptor (died 1862)

Deaths

Jacques de Vaucanson

• 4 January – Ange-Jacques Gabriel, architect (born 1698)
• 2 March – Princess Sophie of France, princess (born 1734)
• 6 August – Nicolas Chédeville, composer (born 1705)
• 21 November – Jacques de Vaucanson, inventor and artist (born 1709) ^[4]

References

1. "BBC - History - King Louis XVI". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
2. Gillispie, Charles Coulston (1983). The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783-1784. Princeton University Press. p. 21. ISBN   0-691-08321-5.
3. Dupont, Étienne (1862). Traite pratique de la jurisprudence des mines, minieres, forges et carrieres: a l'usage des exploitants, maitres de forges, ingenieurs, et des fonctionnaires, ressortissant aux ministeres des travaux publics, de l'interieur et de la justice (in French). Dunod. p. 109.
4. Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1928). "Vaucanson, Jacques de". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 24 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 611. Retrieved 10 May 2015.