1782 in France explained

Events from the year 1782 in France:

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Louis XVI^[1]

Events

• 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 2km (01miles)^[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

• 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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - King Louis XVI . www.bbc.co.uk . 24 June 2022.
2. Book: Gillispie, Charles Coulston. The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783-1784. Princeton University Press. 1983. 0-691-08321-5. 21.
3. Book: Dupont, Étienne . 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 . 1862 . Dunod . 109 . fr.
4. Encyclopedia: Vaucanson, Jacques de . 611 . . 24 . 1928 . 2 . Blangstrup, Chr. . Christian Blangstrup . J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel . Copenhagen . da . 10 May 2015 .