1792 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1792?
- February 20, 1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
- March 16, 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he died on March 29.
- April 5, 1792 – U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
- April 21, 1792 – Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil’s independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
- April 25, 1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
- May 11, 1792 – Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River.
- May 17, 1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
- June 4, 1792 – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- July 25, 1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
- 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 13, 1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
- 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 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.
- September 26, 1792 – Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
- October 12, 1792 – First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
- 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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