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In 1792, John Graves Simcoe, the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, named the western end of Lake Ontario " Burlington Bay " after the town of Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England ,.
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* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )
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 )
* 1792 – John Linnell, English painter ( d. 1882 )
* 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.
1792 and Graves
Ontario Governor John Graves Simcoe named Wolfe island in General James Wolfe's honour in 1792.
Renamed Newark by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe in 1792, he made it the first capital of Upper Canada ( now the province of Ontario ), The first provincial parliament was convened at the Navy Hall on September 17, 1792.
The first boundaries of Hastings County were established 1792 by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe.
The settlement for European-Canadians was facilitated when the county was created by Upper Canada's founding lieutenant-governor John Graves Simcoe on July 16, 1792.
The county was created in 1792 and named by John Graves Simcoe in honour of the English County.
John Graves Simcoe changed the name in 1792 honouring an old town in Lincolnshire.
Over the centuries, Hemyock Castle had many notable owners including Lord Chief Justice Sir John Popham and General Sir John Graves Simcoe the first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada in 1792.
Like many other places in Niagara, it was renamed by John Graves Simcoe, the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada in 1792.
The bay was named in 1792 by John Graves Simcoe, the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, for the former name of the town of Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
The castle was also owned by General Sir John Graves Simcoe the first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada in 1792.
In 1792 John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant-Governor of the province of Upper Canada, assisted with the formation of the Agricultural Society of Upper Canada based at Niagara on the Lake to further the development of agriculture in Upper Canada.
Between 1792 and 1795, John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, resided in Johnstown.
1792 and Simcoe
Elisabeth Simcoe who lived in Quebec city in 1792 for more than a year wrote about the Canadians, "(…) their coats are tied round with a coloured sash.
1792 and first
Compositae were first described in 1792 by the German botanist Paul Dietrich Giseke.
* 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 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
The patriotic society of the commune was one of the first 21 created in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in spring 1792, by the envoys of the departmental administration.
After a few presidents of the Provisional Junta, there were again consuls of the republic, 14 March 1841 – 13 March 1844 ( ruling jointly, but occasionally styled " first consul ", " second consul "): Carlos Antonio López Ynsfrán ( b. 1792 – d. 1862 ) + Mariano Roque Alonzo Romero ( d. 1853 ) ( the lasts of the aforementioned juntistas, Commandant-General of the Army )
He then entered the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company as a fur trader and in 1792 completed his first significant survey, mapping a route to Lake Athabasca ( presently straddling the Alberta / Saskatchewan border ).
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 Electoral College elected Washington unanimously as the first president in 1789, and again in the 1792 election ; he remains the only president to have received 100 percent of the electoral votes.
Vancouver was the first European to enter Burrard Inlet on 13 June 1792, naming it after his friend Sir Harry Burrard.
Vancouver did eventually learn of the river before he finished his survey — from Robert Gray, captain of the American merchant ship that conducted the first Euroamerican sailing of the Columbia River on 11 May 1792, after first sighting it on an earlier voyage in 1788.
The French National Convention, the first elected Assembly of the First Republic ( 1792 – 1804 ), on the 4th of February 1794, under the leadership of Maximilien Robespierre, abolished slavery by law in France and all its colonies.
After the first great victory of the French revolutionary troops at the Battle of Valmy on 20 September 1792, the French First Republic was proclaimed the next day, on 21 September 1792.
Spain, Naples, Great Britain, and the Netherlands joined Austria and Prussia in The First Coalition ( 1792 – 1797 ), the first major concerted effort of multiple European powers to contain Revolutionary France.
* 987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France till the French Revolution in 1792.
The first meeting of the nine-member Legislative Council and sixteen-member Legislative Assembly took place at Newark on September 17, 1792.
* 1792 – Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River.
The first legislation on the subject was The Militia Act of 1792 which provided, in part:
There was an economic revival ( mechanization of textile manufacture, first trains ...) after the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars ( 1792 – 1815 ).
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.
In 1792, the first iron-cased rockets were successfully developed and used by Hyder Ali and his son Tipu Sultan, rulers of the Kingdom of Mysore in India against the larger British East India Company forces during the Anglo-Mysore Wars.
It began as a colony of freed American slaves on March 11, 1792, Blacks voted for the first time in elections, as did women.
On March 11, 1792, Nathaniel Gilbert, a white preacher, prayed and preached a sermon under the large Cotton Tree, and Reverend David George preached the first recorded Baptist service in Africa.
* Rufus M. Porter ( 1792 – 1884 ), first
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