* 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 – 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.

The term ' the 10th of August ' is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on the 10th of August, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814.

In 1792 the Republic of Rauracia, a revolutionary French client republic, was created.

Charles Xavier Joseph de Franque Ville d ' Abancour ( 4 July 1758 – 9 September 1792 ) was a French statesman, minister to Louis XVI.

Jacques le fataliste ( written in 1773, but not published until 1792 in German and 1796 in French ) is similar to Tristram Shandy and The Sentimental Journey.

* 1792 – French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.

* 1792 – Nicolas Charlet, French painter ( d. 1845 )

The Bourbon monarchy was destroyed by the French people in 1792 — it would be restored after Napoleon, then destroyed again with the Restoration of the House of Bonaparte.

The French Revolutionary Wars started in 1792 and ultimately featured spectacular French victories that facilitated the conquest of the Italian Peninsula, the Low Countries and most territories west of the Rhine – achievements that had eluded previous French governments for centuries.

The following day – 22 September 1792, the first morning of the new Republic – was later retroactively adopted as the beginning of Year One of the French Republican Calendar.

* The Origins of the French Revolution, The French Revolution: The Moderate Stage, 1789 – 1792, and The French Revolution: The Radical Stage, 1792 – 1794, three essays from The History Guide: Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History

This usage was modified on 22 September 1792 when the Republic was proclaimed and the Convention decided that all public documents would be dated Year I of the French Republic.

Years appear in writing as Roman numerals ( usually ), with epoch 22 September 1792, the beginning of the ' Republican Era ' ( the day the French First Republic was proclaimed, one day after the Convention abolished the monarchy ).

Translated in Latin under the name Domine, Salvum Fac Regem, it became the French anthem until 1792 .< ref > see the sheet music available online:

The emerging currents of secular humanist thought which had inspired Bentham also informed the French Revolution, and when the newly-formed National Constituent Assembly began drafting the policies and laws of the new republic in 1792, groups of militant ' sodomite-citizens ' in Paris petitioned the Assemblée nationale, the governing body of the French Revolution, for freedom and recognition.

In the years following the Revolution the poetic device " Columbia " was used as a symbol of both Columbus and America, King's College of New York changed its name in 1792 to Columbia, and the new capitol in Washington was subtitled District of Columbia.

Indeed, there was initially a debate as to whether the calendar should celebrate the Revolution, i. e., 1789, or the Republic, i. e., 1792.

* 987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France till the French Revolution in 1792.

* 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.

The British government had somewhat mixed reactions to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, and when war broke out on the Continent in 1792, it initially remained neutral.

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

Bourbon monarchs ruled Navarre ( from 1555 ) and France ( from 1589 ) until the 1792 overthrow of the monarchy during the French Revolution.

As a result of these complications Pius VI was led into a series of half measures which gave little satisfaction to either party: although it is perhaps largely due to him that the Order was able to escape dissolution in White Russia and Silesia ; at only one juncture did he ever seriously consider its universal re-establishment, namely in 1792, as a bulwark against the ideas of the French Revolution ( 1789 ).

The French Revolution of 1789 had a significant impact throughout Europe, which only increased with the arrest of King Louis XVI of France in 1792 and his execution in January 1793 for " crimes of tyranny " against the French people.

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

In 1792, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, the Austrians, then in the United Provinces, laid siege to Lille.

The Sorbonne itself was suppressed by decree of 5 April 1792, after the French Revolution.

The first political prisoner to be executed was Collenot d ' Angremont of the National Guard, followed soon after by the King's trusted collaborator in his ill-fated attempt to moderate the Revolution, Arnaud de Laporte, both in 1792.

On September 11, 1792, while Louis XVI and his family were confined in the Palais des Tuileries near the Place de la Concorde during the early stages of the French Revolution, a group of thieves broke into the Garde-Meuble ( Royal Storehouse ) and stole most of the Crown Jewels during a five-day looting spree.

In 1792, under the French Revolution, the first communication network was developed to enable the quick transporting of information in a warring and unsafe country.