1792

August 10: French Revolution leaders send troops to storm the Tuilleries Palace and capture King Louis XVI.
1792 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1792
MDCCXCII
French Republican calendar1
I
Ab urbe condita2545
Armenian calendar1241
ԹՎ ՌՄԽԱ
Assyrian calendar6542
Balinese saka calendar1713–1714
Bengali calendar1198–1199
Berber calendar2742
British Regnal year32 Geo. 3 – 33 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2336
Burmese calendar1154
Byzantine calendar7300–7301
Chinese calendar辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
4489 or 4282
    — to —
壬子年 (Water Rat)
4490 or 4283
Coptic calendar1508–1509
Discordian calendar2958
Ethiopian calendar1784–1785
Hebrew calendar5552–5553
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1848–1849
 - Shaka Samvat1713–1714
 - Kali Yuga4892–4893
Holocene calendar11792
Igbo calendar792–793
Iranian calendar1170–1171
Islamic calendar1206–1207
Japanese calendarKansei 4
(寛政４年)
Javanese calendar1718–1719
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4125
Minguo calendar120 before ROC
民前120年
Nanakshahi calendar324
Thai solar calendar2334–2335
Tibetan calendarལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Iron-Boar)
1918 or 1537 or 765
    — to —
ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་
(male Water-Rat)
1919 or 1538 or 766
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1792.
May 21: Mount Unzen erupts.

1792 (MDCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1792nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 792nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 92nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1792, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

  • July 18 – Polish–Russian War: Battle of Dubienka – Soldiers of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, led by Tadeusz Kościuszko, resist an attack from Imperial Russian Army forces five times their size.
  • July 25 – Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, commander of the Allied army issues the Brunswick Manifesto threatening the Parisians with military execution and complete destruction should the French royal family be harmed in any way.
  • August 10 – French Revolution: Insurrection of 10 August 1792 – The Tuileries Palace is stormed and Louis XVI is arrested and taken into custody.
  • August 29–September 2 – War of the First Coalition: Battle of Verdun – Prussian forces defeat French troops led by Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire.[6]
  • August 21 – Royalist Louis Collenot d'Angremont becomes the first person executed by guillotine for political reasons, in Paris.
  • September – Macartney Embassy: George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, sails from Portsmouth in HMS Lion as the first official envoy from Great Britain to China.
  • September 2–7 – French Revolution: September Massacres – Rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops and more than 200 priests, together with at least 1,000 other criminals.
  • September 11 – Six men steal some of the former French Crown Jewels from a warehouse where the revolutionary government has stored them.
  • September 12 – The town of Fort Borbon is founded by Governor Joaquín Alós y Bru. Nowadays it is called Fuerte Olimpo.
  • September 14 – Radical antimonarchist Thomas Paine flees from England to France after being indicted for treason. He is tried in absentia during December and outlawed.[7]
September 20: Battle of Valmy.

October–December

  • October 2 – The Baptist Missionary Society is founded in Kettering, England.
  • October 3 – A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.[8]
  • October 12 – The first Columbus Day celebration in the United States is held in New York City, 300 years after his arrival in the New World.
  • October 13 – Foundation of Washington, D.C.: The cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House after 1818) is laid.
October 29: Mount Hood is named.
  • October 29 – Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after British Admiral Lord Hood by Lt. William Broughton of the Vancouver Expedition, who spots the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
  • November 6
    • War of the First Coalition: Battle of Jemappes – Austrian armies under the command of Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen are defeated in Belgium (at this time part of the Austrian Netherlands) by the French Army led by General Charles François Dumouriez.[9]
    • The second United States presidential election is held. Incumbent President George Washington receives all 132 electoral votes for president, and incumbent Vice President John Adams is re-elected with 77 of 132 votes, with George Clinton receiving 50.[2]
  • November 19 – France's National Convention passes a resolution pledging French support for the overthrow of the governments of other nations.[10]
  • December 3 – George Washington is re-elected president of the United States.
  • December 26 – The trial of Louis XVI of France begins.

Date unknown

  • Tipu Sultan invades Kerala, India, but is repulsed.
  • Hungarian astronomer Franz Xaver von Zach publishes The Tables of the Sun, an essential early work for navigation.
  • Claude Chappe successfully demonstrates the first semaphore line, between Paris and Lille.
  • Scottish engineer William Murdoch begins experimenting with gas lighting.
  • George Anschutz constructs the first blast furnace in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, one of the earliest works of feminist literature, is published in London.
  • Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, future French general, becomes sub-lieutenant.
  • Johann Georg Albrechtsberger becomes Kapellmeister in Vienna.
  • The State Street Corporation is founded, in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • The Insurance Company of North America (later Chubb) is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Shiloh Meeting House, predecessor of Shiloh United Methodist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, is founded.
  • The first written examinations in Europe are held at the University of Cambridge in England.
  • The composer Ludwig van Beethoven moves to Vienna from Bonn to study with Haydn. He would live in Vienna for the rest of his life.
  • James Johnstone establishes that Vancouver Island is an island.

Births

January–June

Gioachino Rossini
Thaddeus Stevens
Pope Pius IX

July–December

Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

Deaths

January–June

George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney

July–December

Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe

References

  1. ^ "Historical Events for Year 1792 | OnThisDay.com". Historyorb.com. 1792. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p169
  3. ^ "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) pp62.
  4. ^ "BBC History British History Timeline". Archived from the original on September 9, 2007. Retrieved September 4, 2007.
  5. ^ Madiou, Thomas (1847). Histoire d'Haïti, Tome I (in French). p. 102.
  6. ^ Blanchard, Anne; Contamine, Philippe (1992). Histoire militaire de la France (in French). Vol. 2 : de 1715 à 1871. PUF. p. 264. ISBN 978-2-13-044415-2..
  7. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 232–233. ISBN 978-0-7126-5616-0.
  8. ^ Barros Arana, Diego (2000) [1886]. "Capítulo XVII". Historia General de Chile (in Spanish). Vol. VII (2 ed.). Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universitaria. pp. 66–70. ISBN 956-11-1535-2.
  9. ^ Eric J. Evans, The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783-1870 (Routledge, 2014)
  10. ^ Robert Bisset, The Reign of George III: To which is Prefixed a View of the Progressive Improvements of England in Property and Strength to the Accession of His Majesty, Volume 2 (Edward Parker, 1822) p855
  11. ^ Henry Sutherland Edwards (1894). Gioachino Rossini, 1792-1861, and His Successors. Sampson Low, Marston & Company. pp. 3–4.
  12. ^ Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Priestley and Weale. 1872. p. 123.
  13. ^ James Willard Nybakken; William W. Broenkow; Tracy Lowell Vallier (2003). Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Marine Sciences. Grolier Academic Reference. p. 252. ISBN 978-0-7172-5946-5.
  14. ^ P. & D. Colnaghi & Co; John Linnell (1973). A Loan Exhibition of Drawings, Watercolours and Paintings by John Linnell and His Circle. Lund Humphries. p. 1787.
  15. ^ "Frederick Marryat: English naval officer and author". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
  16. ^ William Michael Rossetti (1886). Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley: (with New Preface). John Slark. p. 5.
  17. ^ Sarah Brown (2005). A History of the Stained Glass of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Dean and Canons of Windsor. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-9539676-3-6.
  18. ^ Grolier Incorporated (1997). Academic American encyclopedia. Grolier. p. 443. ISBN 978-0-7172-2068-7.
  19. ^ The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine. Houlston and Stonemen. 1867. p. 163.
  20. ^ Joseph Farington (2005). Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Pallas Athene. p. 151. ISBN 978-1-84368-001-7.
  21. ^ Frank N. Magill (September 13, 2013). The 17th and 18th Centuries: Dictionary of World Biography, Volume 4. Routledge. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-135-92414-0.
  22. ^ "History of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
  23. ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Matthias von Schoenberg" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  24. ^ Don Michael Randel (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-674-37299-3.
  25. ^ John Rhodehamel (2001). The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence. Library of America. p. 816. ISBN 978-1-883011-91-8.
  26. ^ "History of Lord Frederick North - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved July 1, 2023.
  27. ^ Samia I. Spencer (2005). Writers of the French Enlightenment. Thomson Gale. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-7876-8132-6.
  28. ^ Burnett R. Toskey (1983). Concertos for Violin and Viola: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia. B.R. Toskey. p. 451. ISBN 978-0-9601054-8-9.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.