1792 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1792?
- January 25, 1792 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.
- 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.
- March 29, 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm’s Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
- 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 28, 1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
- May 11, 1792 – Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River.
- May 15, 1792 – War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
- June 1, 1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
- 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 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 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 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
- October 13, 1792 – In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
- 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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