* 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.

Mount St. Helens was sighted by Vancouver in May 1792, from near the mouth of the Columbia River.

Mount Vernon was incorporated on June 28, 1792, and was named for George Washington's Virginia estate.

Dupont writes that this is very possible because of two things: 1 ) the township was created in 1792, the year that George Washington was reelected as President, and 2 ) because Vernon Township's first Masonic Lodge in 1820 was named Mount Vernon ( Washington was also a Freemason during his life ), likely after Washington's Virginia residence.

* Stephen Moore, 3rd Earl Mount Cashell ( 1792 – 1883 ), Anglo-Irish aristocrat, son of the above

Mount Hood was first seen by European explorers in 1792 and is believed to have maintained a consistent summit elevation, varying by no more than a few feet due to mild seismic activity.

In 1792, Mount Unzen in Japan erupted (), causing part of the volcano to collapse into the sea.

In 1792, Lieutenant William Broughton, sailing with the expedition of George Vancouver to the Northwest Coast of North America, named Mount Hood in present-day Oregon, and Hood's Canal in present-day Washington, after Hood.

Klallam pole for netting ducks, Mount Rainier as seen from Admiralty Inlet, in engraving made in 1792 by John Sykes

* 1792: Captain William Bligh anchors to Adventure Bay for a second time and names Table Mountain ( now Mount Wellington )

" Scott included Mount Henneth ( 1781 ), Barham Downs ( 1784 ), and James Wallace ( 1792 ) in his series of Ballantyne novels.

* Stephen Moore, 3rd Earl Mount Cashell ( 1792 – 1883 )

In the following year, Commander George Vancouver and the officers of HMS Discovery made the Europeans ' first recorded sighting of Mount St. Helens on 19 May 1792, while surveying the northern Pacific Ocean coast.

John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute PC, FRS ( 30 June 1744 – 16 November 1814 ), styled Lord Mount Stuart until 1792 and known as The Earl of Bute between 1792 and 1794, was a British nobleman.

Lord Mount Stuart married Lady Elizabeth McDouall-Crichton, daughter of the Patrick McDouall-Crichton, 6th Earl of Dumfries, and his wife Margaret ( née Crauford ), on 12 October 1792.

On 9 June 1792 he fought a duel with a Captain Cuthbert of the Guards, when the latter refused to let the former's carriage pass through Mount Street in London where some rioting had been taking place.

Mount Nelson was originally named ' Nelson's Hill ' by Captain William Bligh ( of Mutiny on the Bounty fame ) in 1792 in honour of David Nelson, the botanist of the Bounty mission, as " he was the first white man on it " when the Bounty visited ' Van Diemens Land ' on its way to Tahiti.

One of the explanations advanced for the Valle dei Grigi is that it is the result of the collapse of a sector of the mountain, as occurred during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens and the 1792 eruption of Mount Unzen.

Hood Canal was named by the Royal Navy Captain George Vancouver on May 13, 1792, in honor of Admiral Lord Samuel Hood of that navy.

* October 29-Mount Hood was named on October 29, 1792, as Lt. Broughton observed its peak from Belle Vue Point at the southern tip of Sauvie Island during his travels up the Columbia River, writing A very high, snowy mountain now appeared rising beautifully conspicuous in the midst of an extensive tract of low or moderately elevated land ( location of today's Vancouver, Washington ) lying S 67 E., and seemed to announce a termination to the river.

Hood became close friends with the commander of his prize, the Baron de Peroy, and during the peace of 1783 – 1792 paid a long visit to France as his former prisoner's guest.