Events in History in 1792

Apr 5 George Washington casts 1st presidential veto

Apr 14 France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars
Apr 20 Amidst the French Revolution, France declares war on Austria and Prussia, beginning the French Revolutionary Wars

Apr 21 Brazilian revolutionary Tiradentes, is hanged, drawn and quartered in Rio de Janeiro
Apr 25 Guillotine first used in France, executes highwayman Nicolas Pelletier
Apr 25 "La Marseillaise", later the national anthem of France, is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg
May 7 Captain Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
May 8 British Captain George Vancouver sights and names Mt Rainier, Washington
May 8 US establishes the military draft
May 11 Columbia River discovered & named by US Captain Robert Gray
May 12 Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented
May 16 Denmark abolishes slave trade
May 17 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
May 19 Russian army enters Poland
May 21 Mount Unzen on Japan's Shimabara Peninsula, erupts creating a tsunami, killing about 15,000; Japan's deadliest volcanic eruption
Jun 1 Kentucky admitted as 15th US state
Jun 4 Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain
Jun 12 Captain George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver, British Columbia

Jun 13 King Louis XVI dissmisses French government

Jun 21 Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil & Mexicana off Vancouver, British Columbia
Jul 8 France declares war on Prussia
Jul 11 Prussia army moves into French territory
Jul 25 Dutch patriots exiles found "Bataafs Legion"
Jul 25 The Brunswick Manifesto issued to population of Paris promising vengeance if French Royal Family harmed
Jul 30 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time
Jul 31 Cornerstone laid for 1st US government building: US Mint in Philadelphia
Aug 10 A large scale insurrection against the French monarchy occurs in Paris

Aug 10 Papers from the Tuileries Palace, proving the Comte de Mirabeau had secret dealings with the court are revealed

Aug 13 Revolutionaries imprison French royals, including Marie Antoinette

Aug 29 British man o'war HMS Royal George capsizes at Spithead; more than 800 killed
Sep 2 September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
Sep 11 The French Blue gem (later the Hope Diamond) is stolen with other French crown jewels from Royal storehouse in Paris during Reign of Terror
Sep 20 French defeat Prussians at Valmy
Sep 21 French Revolution: The National Convention passes a proclamation announcing the formal abolition of the French monarchy
Sep 22 French First Republic formed by the National Convention, stripping French king of his powers

Sep 26 Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France

Oct 12 First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York

Oct 13 "Old Farmer's Almanac" is 1st published and edited by Robert Thomas
Oct 13 Cornerstone laid for the Executive Mansion (White House) in Washington
Oct 29 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.
Nov 6 Battle of Jemappes: French army beats Holy Roman Empire
Nov 14 Captain George Vancouver is first Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay

Nov 25 Benjamin Banneker first publishes his Farmer's Almanac

Dec 5 George Washington re-elected as US President
Dec 8 1st cremation in US: Henry Laurens
Dec 11 France's King Louis XVI goes on trial, accused of high treason and crimes against the state
Dec 15 1st life insurance policy issued in US (Philadelphia)
Dec 17 Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city
Dec 26 Trial of French King Louis XVI, court hears the kings defense brought by Raymond Desèze