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1782| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 1782 | Scotland [technology] | Scottish engineer James Watt patents the double-acting steam engine, which provides power on both the upstroke and the downstroke of the piston. | | 1782 | Switzerland [human rights] | Ann Goddi, the last person officially executed for witchcraft, is hanged in Switzerland. | | 1782 | France [memoirs] | The first part of the Confessions of the French writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau (written 1765–70) are published posthumously. A very frank (and often unreliable) account of his unusual life, it is a masterpiece of autobiography. The last part appears in 1789. | | 27 February 1782 | America, UK [American Revolution] | The British Parliament orders a halt to British military campaigns in North America. | | 17 May 1782 | India [treaties] | After a British defeat at Wadgaon, India, in January 1779 and largely inconclusive warfare since, the Treaty of Salbai ends the first Anglo-Maratha war with minimal British gains. |
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