* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )

* 1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.

* 1792 – Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen ( d. 1849 )

* 1792 – Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor ( b. 1732 )

* 1794 – U. S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

* 1792 – Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.

* 1741 – Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian ( d. 1792 )

* 1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands ( present day Belgium ), beginning the French Revolutionary War.

* 1792 – The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.

* 1792 – Maximilian Hell, Hungarian astronomer ( b. 1720 )

* 1792 – U. S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.

* 1792 – France declares war against the " King of Hungary and Bohemia ", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.

* 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.

* 1792 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet ( d. 1822 )

* 1792 – Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.

* 1792 – Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary, leading member of Inconfidência Mineira ( b. 1746 )

Khuman Singh Guman Singh ( 1765 – 1792 ) Durg Singh

* 1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.

* 1792 – La Marseillaise ( the French national anthem ) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

* Analytical Review 12 ( 1792 ): 241 – 249 ; 13 ( 1792 ): 418 – 489.

* Christian Miscellany 1 ( 1792 ): 209 – 212.

During the War of the First Coalition ( 1792 – 1797 ), the Directoire had replaced the National Convention.

During the Rococo era Portraiture was an important component of painting in all countries, but especially in Great Britain, where the leaders were William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 ), in a blunt realist style, and Francis Hayman ( 1708 – 1776 ), Angelica Kauffman who was Swiss, ( 1741 – 1807 ), Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), in more flattering styles influenced by Antony Van Dyck ( 1599 – 1641 ).

During the chaos of the French Revolution the university started to gradually disappear, and in 1792 the university was abandoned and closed.

During the French Revolution, in 1792, the tapestry was confiscated as public property to be used for covering military wagons.

During the Russo-Turkish War of 1787 – 1792, on 25 September 1789, a detachment of Russian forces under Ivan Gudovich took Khadjibey and Yeni Dünya for the Russian Empire.

During his reign, Quang Trung envisioned many reforms but died by unknown reason on the way march south in 1792, at the age of 40.

During his time at the herbarium, Lamarck's wife gave birth to three more children before dying on September 27, 1792.

During the French Revolution, the National Convention or Convention, in France, comprised the constitutional and legislative assembly which sat from 20 September 1792 to 26 October 1795 ( the 4th of Brumaire of the year IV under the French Republican Calendar adopted by the Convention ).

During the insurrection of 10 August 1792, when the populace of Paris stormed the < span lang =" fr "> Tuileries </ span > and demanded the abolition of the monarchy, the Legislative Assembly decreed the provisional suspension of King < span lang =" fr "> Louis XVI </ span > and the convocation of a " national convention " which should draw up a constitution.

During the peak of their influence, roughly 1792 to 1795, the sans-culottes provided the principal support behind the two far-left factions of the Paris Commune, the Enragés and the Hébertists.

During his visit to Tortola between October 1790 and October 1792, Thornton learned of the design competitions for the U. S. Capitol and the President's House to be erected in the new Federal City on the banks of the Potomac.

During Chénier's lifetime only his Jeu de paume ( 1791 ) and Hymne sur les Suisses ( 1792 ) had been published.

During the Russo-Turkish War of 1787 – 1792 the Russian Army commander Alexander Suvorov successfully the fortress of Izmail on December 22, 1790.

During a contentious period in February 1792, Andrew Ellicott, who had been conducting the original boundary survey of the future District of Columbia ( see: Boundary Stones ( District of Columbia )) and the survey of the federal city under the direction of the Commissioners, informed the Commissioners that L ' Enfant had not been able to have the city plan engraved and had refused to provide him with the original plan ( of which L ' Enfant had prepared several versions ).

During the same period ( 1792 – 1793 ) he designed Robert Morris ' mansion in Philadelphia, which was never finished because of his delays and Morris ' bankruptcy.

During the Polish-Russian war which broke out in 1792, Chrzanów was occupied by Russian ( 1792 – 1793 ) and Prussian troops ( 1793 – 1795 ).

During the French Revolution in 1792, she left France with her governess, Madame de Genlis.

During the reigns of Louis XV ( 1715 – 1774 ) and Louis XVI ( 1774 – 1792 ), several ministers, most notably Turgot and Necker, proposed revisions to the French tax system so as to include the nobles as taxpayers, but these proposals were not adopted because of resistance from the parlements ( provincial courts of appeal ).

During the Panic of 1792, which further depressed land sales, Macomb was taken to debtor's prison with over $ 300, 000 in debt.

During the French Revolution, the Legislative Assembly was the legislature of France from 1 October 1791 to September 1792.

During the years 1792 to 1918 Tyczyn and the southern part of Poland known as Galicia became part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.

During the eighteenth century Joseph Damer ( created Baron Milton in 1762 and later created the Earl of Dorchester in 1792 ) owned Roscrea but the titles died out on the death of his son the 2nd earl of Dorchester in 1808.

During the French Revolution, he commanded the Armée du Nord ( the military of France ) during the period between the fall of the Ancien Régime under Louis XVI in 1792 and the formation of the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804, and created Marshal of France on 28 December 1791, but resigned in 1792 after several reverses.