1792 - What happened in 1792 ?

January 1792

Wednesday 25:

The London Corresponding Society is founded

February 1792

Saturday 04:

George Washington is unanimously elected to a second term as President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.

Monday 20:

The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.

March 1792

Friday 16:

King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.

Thursday 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.

April 1792

Monday 02:

The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.

Thursday 05:

U.S. 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.

Friday 20:

France declares war on Austria.

Saturday 21:

Tiradentes, a revolutionary who was leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged.

Wednesday 25:

"La Marseillaise" (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

May 1792

Friday 11:

Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented Caucasian to visit the Columbia River.

Thursday 17:

The New York Stock Exchange is formed.

June 1792

Friday 01:

Kentucky becomes the 15th state of the United States.

Monday 04:

Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Great Britain.

August 1792

Friday 10:

French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.

September 1792

Sunday 02:

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.

Friday 21:

The French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy.

Saturday 22:

primidi Vendemière of year I of the French Republican Calendar

October 1792

Friday 12:

First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York

Saturday 13:

In Washington, DC, the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.

Monday 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.

December 1792

Tuesday 11:

King Louis XVI of France goes on trial for treason

Wednesday 26:

Final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris