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1792 Calendar

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•  January 25, 1792 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.
•  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 20, 1792 – France declares war on Austria, the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
•  June 4, 1792 – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
•  July 25, 1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
•  September 2, 1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
•  September 21, 1792 – The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy.
•  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.

•  January 8, 1792 – Lowell Mason, American composer (d. 1872)
•  January 12, 1792 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (d. 1841)
•  March 7, 1792 – John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
•  April 12, 1792 – John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, Governor General of British North America (d. 1840)
•  June 16, 1792 – John Linnell, English landscape painter (d. 1882)
•  June 21, 1792 – Ferdinand Christian Baur, German theologian (d. 1860)
•  August 13, 1792 – Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort of the United Kingdom, wife of King William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849)
•  November 28, 1792 – Victor Cousin, French philosopher (d. 1867)
•  December 6, 1792 – King William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849)
•  December 30, 1792 – Sylvester Jordan, German politician and lawyer (d. 1861)