Events from the year 1782 in France
Monarch – Louis XVI
25-26 January – Battle of Saint Kitts
17 February – Battle of Sadras
22 February – Capture of Montserrat
19 April – Battle of the Mona Passage
6 July – Battle of Negapatam
1 January – First performance of the opera Colinette à la cour
28 August – Antoine Maurice Apollinaire d'Argout, statesman, minister and governor (died 1858)
Charles-René Laitié, sculptor (died 1862)
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).
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