1792 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1792?
- January 25, 1792 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.
- March 16, 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he died on March 29.
- April 2, 1792 – The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
- April 20, 1792 – France declares war on Austria, the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
- April 21, 1792 – Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil’s independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
- April 25, 1792 – La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
- May 11, 1792 – Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River.
- June 1, 1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
- August 10, 1792 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace – Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
- August 16, 1792 – Maximilien Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
- September 2, 1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
- September 11, 1792 – The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house used to store them.
- September 20, 1792 – French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.
- September 22, 1792 – Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
- October 12, 1792 – First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
- October 13, 1792 – In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
- October 29, 1792 – Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
- December 11, 1792 – French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
- December 26, 1792 – The final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris, France.
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