Timeline March 1782

Events in March 1782 4

• 1782 Publication of Les Liaisons dangereuses Choderlos de Laclos's epistolary novel scandalizes Paris Pierre Choderlos de Laclos published his epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses in Paris. The book's frank depiction of aristocratic seduction and manipulation scandalized French society and became an immediate bestseller. It is now regarded as a classic of French literature.
• 1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre Pennsylvania militia kill unarmed Christian Lenape Pennsylvania militiamen rounded up and killed roughly ninety-six unarmed Christian Lenape at the Moravian mission village of Gnadenhutten in Ohio. The victims, mostly converts who had taken no part in the war, were bludgeoned to death after being falsely accused of raiding frontier settlements. The massacre provoked outrage and intensified frontier violence between settlers and Native Americans.
• 1782 – 1850 John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) Died 31 March 1850, aged 68 Calhoun served as US Vice President, Secretary of State, and a senator from South Carolina, becoming the leading political theorist and defender of slavery and states' rights in the antebellum South. His final Senate speech, read aloud as he was too ill to deliver it, warned against the compromise measures then before Congress. He died in Washington weeks before the Compromise of 1850 was passed.
• 1782 Lord North's Ministry Falls British government collapses after Yorktown defeat Frederick North resigned as Prime Minister after his government lost the confidence of Parliament following the defeat at Yorktown. The Marquess of Rockingham formed a new ministry committed to ending the war with the American colonies. The change in government opened the way for peace negotiations with the United States.