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1792

This article is about the year 1792. For the 1792 bourbon whiskey, see 1792 (bourbon).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1760s 1770s 1780s – 1790s – 1800s 1810s 1820s
Years:	1789 1790 1791 – 1792 – 1793 1794 1795

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Year 1792 (MDCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1792

April 24: Guillotine (1792 model, left).

January 9 – The Treaty of Jassy ends Russia's war with the Ottoman Empire over Crimea.
February 20 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
March 1 – Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, the last emperor, takes office.
March 16 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot in the back by Jacob Johan Anckarström at a midnight masquerade at the Royal Opera in Stockholm; he lives until March 29, and is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
March 20 – A new capital of North Carolina and county seat of the newly formed Wake County is established after North Carolina State Senator and surveyor William Christmas submits his design for the city. A few months later the capital is officially named Raleigh in honor of Sir Walter Raleigh.

April 2 – The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
April 5 – United States President George Washington vetoes a bill designed to apportion representatives among U.S. states. This is the first time the presidential veto is used in the United States.
April 20 – France declares war against Austria.
April 21 – Tiradentes, prime figure in the Inconfidência Mineira plot, is executed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
April 24 – The guillotine is first used experimentally in France.
April 25
- Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
- La Marseillaise, the French national anthem, is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
May 8 – Revenue Commission established.^[where?]
May 11 – Captain Robert Gray becomes the first white man to enter the Columbia River.
May 17 – The Buttonwood Agreement is signed, beginning the New York Stock Exchange.
May 18 – War in defence of the constitution: Russia invades Poland.
May 21 – An old lava dome collapses in Kyūshū, Japan when Mount Unzen volcano erupts; the resulting avalanche and tsunami kills about 14,300 people.
June 1 – Kentucky becomes the 15th state of The United States of America
June 4 – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Great Britain.
June 13 – Vancouver becomes the first European to enter Burrard Inlet.
June 13 – Prussia declares war against France

August 10 – French Revolution: The Tuileries Palace is stormed, and Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
September – George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney sails from Portsmouth to China.
September 2 – During what becomes known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic Church bishops and more than 200 priests.
September 11 – Six men steal some of the former French Crown jewels from a warehouse where the revolutionary government had stored them.
September 20 – Battle of Valmy: French revolutionary army defeats Prussians under the Duke of Brunswick after 7-hour artillery duel.
September 21 – The French Convention abolishes the monarchy and establishes the First Republic.
September 22 – The Era of the historical French Republican Calendar begins.

October 12 – The first Columbus Day celebration in the USA is held in New York, 300 years after his arrival in the New World.
October 13 – Foundation of Washington, DC: The cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion, known as the White House after 1818, is laid.
October 29 – Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Samuel Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton, who spots the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
December 3 – George Washington is re-elected President of the United States.
December 26 – The trial of Louis XVI of France begins.

The Baptist Missionary Society is founded in Kettering, England.
Dominique-Jean Larrey, chief surgeon of the Grand Armee of France, creates the first ambulance wagons specifically designed as ambulances.
Tipu Sultan invades Kerala in India, but is repulsed.
Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, an astronomer, publishes The Tables of the Sun, an essential early work for navigation.
Claude Chappe successfully demonstrates the first semaphore line, between Paris and Lille.
William Murdoch begins experimenting with gas lighting.
George Anschutz constructs the first blast furnace in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Thomas Holcroft produces the play Road to Ruin in London.
Barthelemy Catherine Joubert, later general, becomes sub-lieutenant.
Johann Georg Albrechtberger becomes Kapellmeister in Vienna.
The State Street Corporation is founded.
Shiloh Meeting House, predecessor of Shiloh United Methodist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, is founded.
Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is published.

The first written examinations in Europe are held at Cambridge University, England.