* 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.

Lucy Jr. married John Hardcastle in Derby in 1792 and their daughter, Mary, married Francis Boott, the physician.

John Gordon ( 1792 – 1869 ), younger brother of the fourth Earl, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy.

He did not stand for re-election in 1792, and was a presidential elector for John Adams in the 1796 election.

* 1723 – John Burgoyne, British general ( d. 1792 )

General George Washington at Trenton by John Trumbull, Yale University Art Gallery ( 1792 ).

* 1747 – John Paul Jones, American navy commander ( d. 1792 )

* John Brown ( Kentucky ) ( 1757 – 1837 ), U. S. representative ( VA, 1789 – 1792 ) and U. S. senator ( KY, 1793 – 1805 ); member of Continental Congress from Virginia

* 1718 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman ( d. 1792 )

This settlement was different from the Freetown settlement and colony founded in 1792 by Lt. John Clarkson and the Nova Scotian Settlers under the auspices of the Sierra Leone Company

While in Revolutionary Paris in 1792, the 22-year-old Wordsworth made the acquaintance of the mysterious traveller John " Walking " Stewart ( 1747 – 1822 ), who was nearing the end of a thirty-years ' peregrination from Madras, India, through Persia and Arabia, across Africa and all of Europe, and up through the fledgling United States.

* May 11 – John Herschel, English astronomer ( b. 1792 )

* September 4 – John Pascoe Fawkner, Australian pioneer, settler and politician, Melbourne, Victoria ( b. 1792 )

* May 28 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1792 )

* February 24 – John Burgoyne, British general ( d. 1792 )

* July 6 – John Paul Jones, American naval captain ( d. 1792 )

* June 8 – John Smeaton, English civil engineer ( d. 1792 )

* November 3 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman ( d. 1792 )

* May 25 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1792 )

His mother, Anne Becher ( 1792 – 1864 ) was the second daughter of Harriet Becher and John Harman Becher, who was also a secretary ( writer ) for the East India Company.

Anne Becher, born 1792, was " one of the reigning beauties of the day ," and a daughter of John Harmon Becher ( Collector of the South 24 Parganas district d. Calcutta, 1800 ), of an old Bengal civilian family " noted for the tenderness of its women.

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet, KH, FRS ( 7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871 )

J. C. Calhoun's wife since 1811, Floride Calhoun, ( 1792 – 1866 ), was the daughter of South Carolina United States Senator and lawyer John E. Colhoun, ( 1750 – 1802 ).

The city of Freetown was founded in 1792 by Abolitionist John Clarkson as a land for freed African American slaves, called the Nova Scotian who had fought on the side with British during the American Revolutionary War.