1792

1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).

March 16 - King of Sweden Gustav III shot in the back by Jacob Johan Anckarström at a midnight masquerade at the Royal Opera in Stockholm, on March 16, he expired on March 29 succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
March 20 - A new capital of North Carolina and county seat of the newly formed Wake County is estabished 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.

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 20 - France declares war against the Habsburgs.
April 21 - Tiradentes, prime figure in the Inconfidência Mineira plot, is executed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
April 24 - First experimental use of the guillotine in France.
April 25 - Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
April 25 - "La Marseillaise" (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

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
May 21 - Old lava dome collapses in Kyushu, Japan when Mount Unzen volcano erupts - resulting avalanche and tsunami kills about 14300

June 1 - Kentucky is admitted as the 15th U.S. state and as one of its first orders of business ratifies all twelve articles of the Bill of Rights, including one that is technically still pending for consideration.
June 4 - Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Great Britain.

September 2 - During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughtered three Roman Catholic Church bishops and more than two hundred priests.
September 11 - Six men steal some of the former French Crown jewels from a warehouse the revolutionary government uses to store them.
September 20 - Battle of Valmy - French revolutionary army defeats Prussians under Duke of Brunswick after 7-hour artillery duel.
September 21 - French convention abolishes the monarchy and establishes the First Republic.
September 22 - Beginning of the Era of the historical French Republican Calendar.

October 12 - First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York; 300 years after.
October 13 - Foundation of Washington, DC. The cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion, known as the White House since 1818, is laid.
October 29 - Mt. 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.

Baptist Missionary Society is founded in Kettering, England.
Dominique-Jean Larrey, chief surgeon of the Grand Armee of France, created the first ambulance wagons specifically designed as ambulances.
French revolution, culminate year, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle composes La Marseillaise also known as "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.
Russia invades Poland: War in defence of the constitution.
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 begins experimenting with 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.

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