1792 Calendar
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1792 Historical Event(s)
April 5, 1792
– U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
April 20, 1792
– France declares war on Austria, the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
April 25, 1792
– La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
June 1, 1792
– Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
June 4, 1792
– Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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.
September 22, 1792
– Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
September 26, 1792
– Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
October 29, 1792
– 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.
December 11, 1792
– French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
Who Were Born On 1792?
January 12, 1792
– Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (d. 1841)
February 8, 1792
– Queen Caroline Augusta of Bavaria of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1873)
March 4, 1792
– Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861)
June 16, 1792
– John Linnell, English landscape painter (d. 1882)
June 19, 1792
– Gustav Schwab, German author (d. 1850)
June 21, 1792
– Ferdinand Christian Baur, German theologian (d. 1860)
October 12, 1792
– Christian Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1860)
November 26, 1792
– Sarah Grimké, American abolitionist and feminist (d. 1873)
December 7, 1792
– Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Dutch literator (d. 1857)