What Happened in May 1782

Famous Birthdays

May 16 John Sell Cotman, English water color artist, born in Norwich, England (d. 1842)
May 26 Joseph Drechsler, Czech composer, born in Vlachovo Březí, Czech Republic (d. 1852)
May 28 Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk, Dutch painter, born in Amsterdam (d. 1810)

May 8 Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (1756-1777), dies at 82
May 15 Richard Wilson, Welsh landscape painter, dies at 67
May 16 Daniuel Charles Solander, botanist, dies
May 20 Carlo Giovanni Testori, Italian violinist, composer, pedagogue, and musicologist (La musica raggionata), dies at 68
May 20 Christoph Gottlieb Schröter, German organist (St Nikola Church, Nordhausen, 1732-82), composer, and inventor of the tangent piano, dies at 82
May 20 William Emerson, British mathematician (b. 1701)