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* 1792 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet ( d. 1822 )
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* 1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
* 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.
* 1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands ( present day Belgium ), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
* 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 – Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
* 1792 – La Marseillaise ( the French national anthem ) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1792 and Percy
Bishop Percy was next subjected to a furious onslaught in the preface to a collection of Ancient Songs ( printed 1787, dated 1790, published 1792 ).
Admiral Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland KG, PC, FRS ( 15 December 1792 – 12 February 1865 ), styled Lord Algernon Percy until 1816 and known as The Lord Prudhoe between 1816 and 1847, was a British naval commander, explorer and Conservative politician.
Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem ( 1813 ) is the title of the first large poetic work written by the famous English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley ( 1792 – 1822 ).
The most famous graves are those of English poets John Keats ( 1795 – 1821 ) and Percy Bysshe Shelley ( 1792 – 1822 ).
* Edward John Trelawny ( 1792 – 1881 ), English author, friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, beside whose ashes he is buried
Thomas Jefferson Hogg ( 24 May 1792 – 27 August 1862 ) was a British barrister and writer best known for his friendship with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Born in 1792, Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a child of the Age of Enlightenment, was expelled from England's Oxford University in 1811 for submitting to the Dean an anonymous pamphlet that he wrote entitled, The Necessity of Atheism.
1792 and English
Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA ( 16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792 ) was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the " Grand Style " in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect.
By the late 18th century Lyme Regis had become a popular seaside resort, especially after 1792 when the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars made travel to the European mainland dangerous for the English gentry, and increasing numbers of wealthy and middle class tourists were arriving there.
The song, originally titled " Chant de guerre pour l ' Armée du Rhin " ( English: " War Song for the Army of the Rhine ") was written and composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792.
In early 1792 British navigator George Vancouver explored Puget Sound and gave English names to the high mountains he saw.
* Hagaparken is part of the National City Park, was initiated by king Gustav III ( 1771 – 1792 ), planned and carried out in the English landscaping style.
See also F Hardy, Memoirs of Lord Charlemont ( London, 1812 ); Warden Flood, Memoirs of Henry Flood ( London, 1838 ); Francis Plowden, Historical Review of the State of Ireland ( London, 1803 ); Alfred Webb, Compendium of Irish Biography ( Dublin, 1878 ); Sir Jonah Barrington, Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation ( London, 1833 ); WJ O ' Neill Daunt, Ireland and her Agitators ; Lord Mountmorres, History of the Irish Parliament ( 2 vole., London, 1792 ); Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III ( 4 vols., London, 1845 and 1894 ); Lord Stanhope, Life of William Pitt ( 4 vols., London, 1861 ); Thomas Davis, Life of JP Curran ( Dublin, 1846 ) this contains a memoir of Grattan by DO Madden, and Grattan's reply to Lord Clare on the question of the Union ; Charles Phillips, Recollections of Curran and some of his Contemporaries ( London, 1822 ); JA Froude, The English in Ireland ( London, 1881 ); JG McCarthy, Henry Grattan: an Historical Study ( London, 1886 ); Lord Mahon's History of England, vol.
John Smeaton,, ( 8 June 1724 – 28 October 1792 ) was an English civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses.
Plans for a major canal to link Bristol and Poole, and therefore to make travel from the Bristol Channel to the English Channel easier and safer, were proposed in 1792.
There are English verse translations by Richard Polwhele ( 1792 ) and imitations by H. J. Pye, poet laureate ( 1795 ), and an Italian version by F. Cavallotti, with text, introduction and notes ( 1898 ).
This play was translated into English, with some adaptations, by actress and playwright Elizabeth Inchbald in 1792.
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