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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.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
January 9 – The
Treaty of Jassy ends the
Russian Empire 's war with the
Ottoman Empire over
Crimea .
[1]
February 18 –
Thomas Holcroft produces the comedy
The Road to Ruin in London.
February 20
March 1 –
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor , the last emperor, takes office.
March 7 – A settlement is formed in
Sierra Leone in West Africa as a home for freed slaves.
[4]
March 16 –
Assassination of Gustav III : King
Gustav III of Sweden is shot in the back by
Jacob Johan Anckarström , at a midnight
masquerade at the Royal Opera in Stockholm; he lives until
March 29 , and is then succeeded by his 14-year-old son,
Gustav IV Adolf .
March 20 – A new capital of
North Carolina , and seat of the newly formed
Wake County , is established after North Carolina
State senator and surveyor William Christmas submits his design for the city. A few months later, the capital is officially named
Raleigh , in honor of Sir
Walter Raleigh .
March 22 –
Haitian Revolution :
Battle of Croix-des-Bouquets – Black slave insurgents gain a victory in the first major battle of the revolution.
[5]
March 25 – The
National Legislative Assembly (France) agrees that the
guillotine should be used for judicial executions.
April–June
April 2 – The
Coinage Act is passed, establishing the
United States Mint .
[2]
April 5 – United States President
George Washington
vetoes a bill designed to apportion representatives among
U.S. states . This is the first time the presidential veto is used in the United States.
April 20 – France declares war against Austria, beginning the
French Revolutionary Wars and the
War of the First Coalition .
April 21 –
Tiradentes , a leading figure in the
Inconfidência Mineira conspiracy, is executed in
Rio de Janeiro ,
Brazil .
April 25
May 11 –
Robert Gray's Columbia River expedition : Captain
Robert Gray , on the
Columbia Rediviva , becomes the first white man to discover the mouth of the
Columbia River .
[2]
May 17 – The
Buttonwood Agreement is signed, beginning the
New York Stock Exchange .
May 18 –
War in Defence of the Constitution : Russia invades Poland.
May 21 –
1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami : An old lava dome collapses in
Kyūshū , Japan, due to activity of
Mount Unzen volcano; the resulting
avalanche and
tsunami kill about 14,300 people.
May 29 – The
Great Sejm of the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is disbanded following the
Russian invasion of Poland .
June 1 –
Kentucky becomes the 15th state of the United States of America.
[2]
June 4 – Captain
George Vancouver claims
Puget Sound for Great Britain.
June 13
July–September
September 20 :
Battle of Valmy .
October–December
October 29 :
Mount Hood is named.
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
January 12 –
Johann Arfvedson , Swedish chemist (d.
1841 )
February 17 –
Karl Ernst von Baer , German naturalist (d.
1876 )
February 29 –
Gioachino Rossini , Italian composer (d.
1868 )
[11]
March 3 –
Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler , German church historian (d.
1854 )
March 4
March 7 –
John Herschel , English mathematician and astronomer (d.
1871 )
[12]
April 1 –
Karl Gottlob Zumpt , German classical scholar (d.
1849 )
April 2 –
Francisco de Paula Santander , President of Colombia (d.
1840 )
April 4 –
Thaddeus Stevens , American politician (d.
1868 )
April 23 –
Thomas Romney Robinson , Irish astronomer and physicist (d.
1882 )
April 25 –
John Keble , English churchman and poet (d.
1866 )
May 10 –
Willie Person Mangum , American politician (d.
1861 )
May 13 –
Pope Pius IX (b. Giovanni Mastai-Ferretti), Italian churchman (d.
1878 )
May 15 –
James Mayer de Rothschild , German-born banker (d.
1868 )
May 17 –
Anne Isabella Milbanke , English wife of
Lord Byron (d.
1860 )
May 18 –
Margaret Ann Neve , Guernesiaise
supercentenarian (d.
1903 )
May 21 –
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis , French engineer and scientist (d.
1843 )
[13]
June 13 –
William Austin Burt , American inventor, "father of the typewriter" (d.
1858 )
June 16 –
John Linnell , English painter (d.
1882 )
[14]
June 21 –
Ferdinand Christian Baur , German theologian (d.
1860 )
July–December
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
July 7 –
William Henry Smith , English newsvendor and bookseller (d.
1865 )
July 10 –
Frederick Marryat , British naval captain and novelist (d.
1848 )
[15]
July 27 –
Maria Quitéria , Brazilian national heroine (d.
1853 )
August 4 –
Percy Bysshe Shelley , English poet (d.
1822 )
[16]
August 13 –
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen , queen of
William IV of the United Kingdom (d.
1849 )
[17]
August 18 –
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell ,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d.
1878 )
August 22 –
John Church Hamilton , American historian (d.
1882 )
August 26 –
Manuel Oribe , 2nd President of Uruguay (d.
1857 )
[18]
September 2 –
Vicente Ramón Roca , 3rd President of Ecuador (d.
1858 )
September 19 –
William Backhouse Astor, Sr. , American business tycoon (d.
1875 )
September 26 –
William Hobson , first Governor of New Zealand (d.
1842 )
October 29 –
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell , explorer, Surveyor-General of New South Wales, Australia (d.
1855 )
November 4 –
Carlos Antonio López , president of
Paraguay (d.
1862 )
November 10 –
Samuel Nelson ,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.
1873 )
November 11 –
Mary Anne Evans , wife of
Benjamin Disraeli (d.
1872 )
November 28 –
Victor Cousin , French philosopher (d.
1867 )
[19]
December 1 –
Nikolai Lobachevsky , Russian mathematician (d.
1856 )
December 5 –
Andrés de Santa Cruz , Peruvian military officer, seventh
President of Peru and
President of Bolivia (d.
1865 )
December 6 –
William II of the Netherlands (d.
1849 )
date unknown –
Nodira , Uzbek poet and stateswoman (d.
1842 )
Deaths
January–June
George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney
January 17 –
George Horne , British academic and
Bishop of Norwich (b.
1730 )
February 15 –
John Witherspoon , Scottish American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b.
1723 )
February 23 – Sir
Joshua Reynolds , English painter (b.
1723 )
[20]
March 1
March 1 –
Angelo Emo , Venetian admiral and statesman (b.
1731 )
March 3 –
Robert Adam , Scottish architect and designer (b.
1728 )
[21]
March 10 –
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1713 )
[22]
March 23 –
Luís António Verney , Portuguese philosopher and pedagogue (b.
1713 )
March 29 – King
Gustav III of Sweden (assassinated) (b.
1746 )
April 3 – Sir
George Pocock , British admiral (b.
1706 )
April 4 –
James Sykes , American politician (b.
1725 )
April 14 –
Maximilian Hell , Slovakian astronomer (b.
1720 )
April 20 –
Matthias von Schoenberg , Catholic author (b.
1732 )
[23]
April 23 –
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt , German theologian, adventurer (b.
1741 )
April 30 –
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich , English statesman (b.
1718 )
May 10 –
John Stevens , American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. c.
1715 )
May 12 –
Charles Simon Favart , French dramatist (b.
1710 )
[24]
May 24 –
George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney , British naval officer (b.
1718 )
June 4 –
John Burgoyne , British general (b.
1723 )
[25]
June 22 –
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab , Arabian Wahhabi preacher (b.
1703 )
July–December
Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe
July 3 –
Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b.
1721 )
July 18 –
John Paul Jones , American-born naval captain (b.
1747 )
July 21 –
Richard Hancorne , British Royal Navy officer (b.
1754 )
July 29 –
René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou , Chancellor of France (b.
1714 )
August 3 –
Richard Arkwright , English inventor (b.
1732 )
August 5 –
Frederick North, Lord North ,
Prime Minister of Great Britain (b.
1732 )
[26]
September 3 –
Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe , French princess, courtier to
Marie Antoinette (killed in
September Massacres ) (b.
1749 )
September 8 –
Charles d'Abancour , French statesman (killed in September Massacres) (b.
1758 )
September 16 –
Nguyễn Huệ , Vietnamese emperor (b.
1753 )
September 18 –
August Gottlieb Spangenberg , German religious leader (b.
1704 )
September 25 –
Adam Gottlob Moltke , Danish statesman (b.
1710 )
September 29 –
George Browne , Russian-Irish field-marshal (b.
1698 )
October 7 –
George Mason , American patriot (b.
1725 )
October 14 –
Sophie Charlotte Ackermann , German actress (b.
1714 )
October 21 –
Anders Rudolf du Rietz , Swedish general, count and politician (b.
1722 )
October 22 –
Guillaume Le Gentil , French astronomer (b.
1725 )
October 28
November –
Samuel Hearne , English explorer, fur-trader, author and naturalist (b.
1745 )
December 7 –
Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (Laboras de Mezières), French novelist (b.
1714 )
[27]
December 8 –
Henry Laurens , political leader during the
American Revolutionary War , father of
John Laurens (b.
1724 )
December 15
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