The island was fully explored in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver.

After Whidbey circumnavigated the island in June 1792, Vancouver named the island in his honor.

The island was originally named Quadra's and Vancouver's Island in commemoration of the friendly negotiations held by Spanish Commander of the Nootka Sound settlement Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, and British Naval Captain George Vancouver on Nootka Sound in 1792, to find a solution to the Nootka Crisis.

“ Réunion ” was the name given to the island in 1793 by a decree of the Convention with the fall of the House of Bourbon in France, and the name commemorates the union of revolutionaries from Marseille with the National Guard in Paris, which took place on 10 August 1792.

Peng Chau is known for its small island lifestyle, accessibility to fresh seafood, and several temples located around the island ( including a Tin Hau temple built in 1792 ).

In the morning of June 13, 1792, the two ships under Galiano sailed into Boundary Bay and verified that Point Roberts was not an island, which was thus renamed Punta Cepeda.

Ontario Governor John Graves Simcoe named Wolfe island in General James Wolfe's honour in 1792.

The island was named on May 28, 1792, by the explorer George Vancouver after his friend James Vashon of the Royal Navy.

* Clachan Bridge linking the island of Seil to the Scottish mainland ( completed 1792 )

The island itself however is named after the French explorer Bruni d ' Entrecasteaux who explored the Channel region and discovered it to be and island in 1792.

French Captain Pierre François Péron ( not to be confused with François Péron ) was marooned from 1792 to 1795 on the island.

The volcanic island is a potentially active volcano which last erupted in 1792.

When French explorer Bruni D ' Entrecasteaux first saw this island in 1792 it was the forests that impressed him.

Initially destined for a religious career, he left his native island during the French Revolution, and entered the Army in 1792.

By 1792, slaves controlled a third of the island.

The island was later settled by United Empire Loyalists and renamed Amherst Island in 1792 in honour of Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, who was commander-in-chief of British forces in North America.

George Mason IV acquired the island in 1735 upon the death of his father and John Mason, the son of George Mason IV, inherited the Island in 1792 and owned it until 1833.

* In 1792 the Russian subject Adam Laxman visited the island of Hokkaido.

The island was first noted by British explorer George Vancouver in 1792, as part of his exploration of Puget Sound, though it was not named.

Although often visited by local people, the island was apparently uninhabited when British colonists settled it in 1792.

Andreas Calvos was born in April 1792 in Greece on the island of Zacynthos ( then occupied by the Venetian Republic ), the elder of the two sons of Ioannes Calvos and Andriane Calvos ( née Roucane ).

The matter was considered and reconsidered, and finally opposed, but in spite of many objections, the Court granted a charter on January 9, 1792.

When the Jacobin faction seized control of the Revolutionary government in 1792, Jean-Jacques Ampère resisted the new political tides, and he was guillotined on November 24, 1793, as part of the Jacobin purges of the period.

In the years following the Revolution the poetic device " Columbia " was used as a symbol of both Columbus and America, King's College of New York changed its name in 1792 to Columbia, and the new capitol in Washington was subtitled District of Columbia.

As Salieri's political position became very insecure he was retired as director of the Italian opera in 1792.

The term ' the 10th of August ' is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on the 10th of August, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814.

The arrival of the Second and Third Fleets placed new pressures on the scarce local resources, but by the time Phillip sailed home in December 1792, the colony was taking shape, with official land-grants and systematic farming and water-supply.

By 1792 the colony was well established, though Sydney remained an unplanned huddle of wooden huts and tents.

In late 1792 Phillip, whose health was suffering from the poor diet, at last received permission to leave, and on 11 December 1792 he sailed in the ship Atlantic, taking with him many specimens of plants and animals.

In 1792 Ansbach was annexed by the Hohenzollerns of Prussia.

This agitation continued in the Ubaye Valley ; a new revolt broke out on 14 June, and famine was declared in April 1792.

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.

In 1792 the Republic of Rauracia, a revolutionary French client republic, was created.

His date of birth was given in his obituary in The Times as 26 December 1792.

The parish register of St. Mary's Newington, London, shows that Babbage was baptised on 6 January 1792, supporting a birth year of 1791.

Charles Xavier Joseph de Franque Ville d ' Abancour ( 4 July 1758 – 9 September 1792 ) was a French statesman, minister to Louis XVI.

He was Louis XVI's last minister of war ( July 1792 ), and organised the defence of the Tuileries Palace during the 10th of August attack.

Abancourt and his fellow-prisoners were murdered in cold blood in massacres on 9 September 1792 at Versailles, and Fournier was unjustly charged with complicity in the crime.

In 1789, Revolutionary France adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and, although short-lived, the National Convention was elected by all males in 1792.

In May 1792, Vancouver was anchored near the southern end of Whidbey Island.

In 1791, the company's stock was bought by the Dutch government, and on 1 January 1792, all territories previously held by the Dutch West India Company reverted to the rule of the States-General of the Dutch Republic.

The unity that was to be symbolized in " The Tennis Court Oath " no longer existed in radicalized 1792.

By 1792 there was no longer consensus that all the revolutionaries at the tennis court were " heroes.

The Bourbon monarchy was destroyed by the French people in 1792 — it would be restored after Napoleon, then destroyed again with the Restoration of the House of Bonaparte.