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 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.

• 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 armées du Rhin".
• Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, last emperor, takes office.
• Treaty of Jassy[?] ends Russian war with Ottoman Empire over Crimea.
• 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.

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
• October 7 - George Mason, U.S. Patriot, "Father of the Bill of Rights"
• 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