* 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 – 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.

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

He also served a one-year term as the President of the Continental Congress, and was a U. S. Senator from Virginia from 1789 to 1792, serving during part of that time as one of the first Presidents pro tempore of the United States Senate.

Design for the U. S. Capitol, " An Elevation for a Capitol ", by James Diamond was one of many submitted in the 1792 contest, but not selected.

This was codified in the 1792 Mint and Coinage Act, and by the Federal Government's use of the " Bank of the United States " to hold its reserves, as well as establish a fixed ratio of gold to the U. S. dollar.

In 1791, he served a year in the Second United States Congress as a U. S. Representative of Georgia but lost his seat during a debate over his residency qualifications and declined to run for re-election in 1792.

In 1792, New York City and other U. S. cities celebrated the 300th anniversary of his landing in the New World.

The U. S. acquired the last remaining tract, the Erie Triangle, through a separate treaty and sold it to Pennsylvania in 1792.

The first U. S. dollar coins were not issued until April 2, 1792, and the peso continued to be officially recognized and used, along with other foreign coins, until February 21, 1857.

* April 5, 1792: President George Washington used the veto for the first time, vetoing a bill designed to apportion representatives among U. S. states.

| style =" font-size: 80 %" | Resigned June 1, 1792, to become U. S. Senator from Kentucky.

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.

A hero of the American Revolution, he later served as a member of the New York Assembly ( 1792 – 1793 ) and as a congressman in the U. S. House of Representatives ( 1793 – 1794 ) from that district.

* Arthur Lee ( diplomat ) ( 1740 – 1792 ), U. S. envoy to France

The U. S. based its claim in part on Robert Gray's entry of the Columbia River in 1792 and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

The first was built in 1792, when Philadelphia was still the U. S. capital, and began operation in 1793.

* George M. Dallas ( 1792 – 1864 ), U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the eleventh Vice President of the United States

* John Giles Adams ( 1792 – 1832 ), U. S. militia commander at the Battle of Stillman's Run during the 1832 Black Hawk War

Although the " eagle "- based nomenclature for gold U. S. coinage is often assumed to be a nickname, the " eagle ," " half-eagle " and " quarter-eagle " were specifically given these names in the Act of Congress that originally authorized them (" An Act establishing a Mint, and regulating Coins of the United States ", section 9, April 2, 1792 ).

Although technically part of Kentucky at its statehood in 1792, the land did not come under definitive U. S. control until 1818, when Andrew Jackson and Isaac Shelby purchased it from the Chickasaw Indians.

Alexander Martin ( 1740November 10, 1807 ) was the fourth and seventh Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 1782 to 1784 and from 1789 to 1792.

** Abbott Lawrence ( 1792 – 1855 ): U. S. Congressman, founder of Lawrence, Massachusetts

* Thomas Parker ( district attorney ) ( 1760 – 1820 ), U. S. District Attorney for South Carolina 1792 – 1820 ; resided in Charleston, South Carolina