1792

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s

Years: 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791 - 1792 - 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797

Events

January 25 - The London Corresponding Society is founded.
February 20 - The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
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 21 - "Tiradentes," Minas Conspiracy leader in Brazil, is executed in Rio de Janeiro.
April 25 - Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
May 11 - Captain Robert Gray becomes the first white man to discover the Columbia River.
May 17 - Buttonwood Agreement is signed, beginnings of New York Stock Exchange.
June 1 - Kentucky is admitted as the 15th U.S. state.
October 12 - First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York.
October 13 - In Washington, DC, the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
French revolution comes to an end, monarchy is abolished and French Republic is declared on sept 22; Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle composes La Marseillaise aka "Marche pour les arm�es du Rhin".
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, last emperor, takes office.
Treaty of Jassy ends Russian war with Ottoman Empire over Crimea.
Russia invades Poland: War in defence of the consitution.
Swedish king Gustav III is assassinated at a masked ball at the Stockholm opera house, is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
King John VI takes over from his insane mother in Portugal.
George Washington is re-elected as president of the United States.
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 invents 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.

Ongoing events

French Revolution (1789-1799)

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

1792 in literature:
- Letters from an American Farmer - Jean de Crevecoeur

Births

January 12 - Johann Arfvedson, Swedish chemist (+ 1841)
February 10 - Captain Frederick Marryat, English author (+ 1848)
February 17 - Karl Ernst von Baer, naturalist
February 29 - Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer
March 3 - Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler, German church historian (+ 1854)
March 7 - John Herschel, mathematician, astronomer (+ 1871)
April 23 - John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer, physicist (+ 1882)
May 13 - Pope Pius IX (+ 1878)
July 10 - George M. Dallas, American senator, vice-president
June 21 - Ferdinand Christian Baur, theologian (+ 1860)
August 4 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet
August 13 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen-Consort of King William IV of the United Kingdom
August 18 - Lord John Russell, British prime minister
September 26 - William Hobson, first governor of New Zealand (+ 1842)
November 11 - Mary Anne Evans, wife of Benjamin Disraeli
November 28 - Victor Cousin, French philosopher (+ 1867)
December 1 - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician
December 6 - William II of the Netherlands (+ 1849)
Matteo Carcassi, Italian musician, composer
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French engineer, scientist
John Herschel, English mathematician, astronomer
John Keble, English poet, professor (+ 1866)
John Linnell, English painter (+ 1873)
William Henry Smith, English businessman
Karl Gottlob Zumpt, scholar

Deaths

March 29 - King Gustav III of Sweden dies after having been shot by an assassin on March 16
April 23 - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian, adventurer
June 4 - John Burgoyne, British general
July 18 - John Paul Jones, American naval captain
September 8 - Charles d'Abancourt, french statesman, killed
October 7 - George Mason, U.S. Patriot, "Father of the Bill of Rights"
December 15 - Joseph Martin Kraus, composer
Robert Adam, Scottish architect
Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter
Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab, Wahhabi preacher

Monarchs/Presidents

China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)\n