1792

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Year 1792 (MDCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1792
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events of 1792

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April 24: Guillotine (1792 model, left).

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May 21: Mount Unzen (Japan) erupts.

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June 1: Kentucky statehood.

January - June

January 9 - Treaty of Jassy ends Russian war with Ottoman Empire over Crimea.
February 20 - The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
March 16 - King Gustav III of Sweden shot in the back by Jacob Johan Anckarström at a midnight masquerade at the Royal Opera in Stockholm; he lives until March 29, to be succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
March 20 - A new capital of North Carolina and county seat of the newly formed Wake County is established after North Carolina State Senator and surveyor William Christmas submits his design for the city. A few months later the capital is officially named Raleigh in honor of Sir Walter Raleigh.
April - France goes to war against Austria and Prussia.
April 2 - The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
April 5 - United States President George Washington vetos a bill designed to apportion representatives among U.S. states. This is the first time the presidential veto has been used in the United States.
April 20 - France declares war against Austria.
April 21 - Tiradentes, prime figure in the Inconfidência Mineira plot, is executed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
April 24 - First experimental use of the guillotine in France.
April 25
- Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
- "La Marseillaise", the French national anthem, composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
May 11 - Captain Robert Gray becomes the first white man to enter the Columbia River.
May 17 - Buttonwood Agreement is signed, beginnings of New York Stock Exchange
May 21 - Old lava dome collapses in Kyūshū, Japan when Mount Unzen volcano erupts: resulting avalanche and tsunami kills about 14,300 people.
June 1 - Kentucky is admitted as the 15th U.S. state and as one of its first orders of business ratifies all twelve articles of the Bill of Rights, including one that is technically still pending for consideration.
June 4 - Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Great Britain.

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September 20: Battle of Valmy.

July - December

August 10 - French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace - Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
September 2 - During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughtered three Roman Catholic Church bishops and more than two hundred priests.
September 11 - Six men steal some of the former French Crown jewels from a warehouse where the revolutionary government used to store them.
September 20 - Battle of Valmy - French revolutionary army defeats Prussians under Duke of Brunswick after 7-hour artillery duel.
September 21 - French convention abolishes the monarchy and establishes the First Republic.
September 22 - Beginning of the Era of the historical French Republican Calendar.
October 12 - First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York; 300 years after.
October 13 - Foundation of Washington, DC. The cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion, known as the White House since 1818, is laid.
October 29 - Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Samuel Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton, who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
December 3 - George Washington is re-elected President of the United States.
December 26 - Trial of Louis XVI of France begins.

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October 13: Washington, DC founded.

Undated

Baptist Missionary Society is founded in Kettering, England.
Dominique-Jean Larrey, chief surgeon of the Grand Armee of France, created the first ambulance wagons specifically designed as ambulances.
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, last emperor, takes office.
Russia invades Poland: War in defence of the constitution.
King John VI takes over from his insane mother in Portugal.
Tipu Sultan invades Kerala in India, but is repulsed.
George Vancouver explores Puget Sound, becomes first European to see Mount Rainier.
Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, an astronomer, publishes "The Tables of the Sun", an essential early work for navigation.
Claude Chappe successfully demonstrates the first semaphore line, between Paris and Lille.
William Murdoch begins experimenting with gas lighting.
George Anschutz constructs first blast furnace in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Thomas Holcroft produces the play Road to Ruin in London.
Barthelemy Catherine Joubert, later general, becomes sub-lieutenant.
Johann Georg Albrechtberger becomes Kapellmeister in Vienna.
State Street Corporation is founded.
Shiloh Meeting House, predecessor of Shiloh United Methodist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia is founded.
Publication of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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October 29: Mount Hood is named.

First written examination in Europe were held at Cambridge University, England.

Ongoing events

French Revolution (1789-1799).
French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802).

Births

**1792 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1792 MDCCXCII
Ab urbe condita	2545
Armenian calendar	1241 ԹՎ ՌՄԽԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-52 – -51
Berber calendar	2742
Buddhist calendar	2336
Burmese calendar	1154
Chinese calendar	4428/4488-12-8 (辛亥年十二月初八日) — to — 4429/4489-11-18 (壬子年十一月十八日)
Coptic calendar	1508 – 1509
Ethiopian calendar	1784 – 1785
Hebrew calendar	5552 – 5553
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1847 – 1848
- Shaka Samvat	1714 – 1715
- Kali Yuga	4893 – 4894
Holocene calendar	11792
Iranian calendar	1170 – 1171
Islamic calendar	1206 – 1207
Japanese calendar	Kansei 4 (寛政4年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2452 (皇紀2452年)
Korean calendar	4125
Thai solar calendar	2335
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