Historical Events That Occurred in the Year 1792

• The London Corresponding Society is founded.
• George Washington is unanimously elected to a second term as President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
• The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
• Oranges were introduced into Hawaii.
• King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
• King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade at Stockholm's Royal Opera just 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
• The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
• U.S. President George Washington vetoes a bill designed to apportion representatives among U.S. states. This was the first time the presidential veto had been used in the United States.
• France declares war on Austria, the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
• Tiradentes, a revolutionary who was leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged and quartered.
• Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
• "La Marseillaise"
• Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented Caucasian to visit the Columbia River.
• The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
• Kentucky becomes the 15th state of the United States.
• Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Great Britain.
• French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
• French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
• During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops and more than two hundred priests.
• The French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy.
• The French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy.
• primidi Vendemière of year I of the French Republican Calendar
• primidi Vendemière of year I of the French Republican Calendar
• First Columbus Day celebration in the U.S. held in New York
• In Washington, DC, the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion
• Mt. Hood
• French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
• The final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris.

• Joshua Reynolds, English painter
• Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
• Robert Adam, Scottish architect
• John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain
• King Gustav III of Sweden,
• George Pocock, British admiral
• John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman
• James Sykes, American politician
• Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer
• Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer
• John Montagu, Supposed inventor of the sandwich
• John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress
• Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist
• George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, British naval officer
• René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France
• Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor
• John Burgoyne, British general
• Jacques Cazotte, French writer
• August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader
• August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader
• Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman
• Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman
• George Mason, American patriot
• Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer
• Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist
• John Smeaton, English civil engineer
• Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer

• Lowell Mason, American composer
• Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general
• Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist
• Samuel Slocum, American inventor
• John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer
• John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist
• Pope Pius IX
• Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist
• John Linnell, English artist
• Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer
• Gustav Schwab, German author
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet
• Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen of William IV of the United Kingdom
• Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen of William IV of the United Kingdom
• Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure
• Mary Anne Evans, English wife of Benjamin Disraeli
• Sarah Grimke, American abolitionist and feminist
• Victor Cousin, French philosopher
• Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician
• King William II of the Netherlands
• Nicolas Charlet, French painter