Today in History for Year 1792

Months in Year 1792: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 65 of 65

Jan 9th - Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Jassy
Jan 25th - The London Corresponding Society is founded.
Feb 7th - Austria & Prussia sign anti-French covenant
Feb 7th - D Cimarosa's opera "Il Matrimonio Segreto," premieres in Vienna
Feb 20th - US postal service created, postage 6 cents - 12 cents depending on distance
Feb 21st - Congress passes Pres Succession Act
Feb 23rd - Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G, premieres
Feb 23rd - Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners)
Mar 1st - US Presidential Succession Act passed
Mar 4th - Oranges introduced to Hawaii
Mar 16th - King Gustav III of Sweden is shot Count Anckarström at a masked ball at the Opera; he dies on March 29.
Mar 24th - Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London
Mar 29th - King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera just 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
Apr 1st - Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce
Apr 2nd - US authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins & silver dollar, ½ dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime
Apr 2nd - The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
Apr 5th - George Washington casts 1st presidential veto
Apr 14th - France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars
Apr 20th - France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia
First US President George Washington Apr 21st - Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
Apr 24th - "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Apr 25th - Guillotine 1st used, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier
May 7th - Capt Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
May 8th - British Capt George Vancouver sights, names Mt Rainier, Wash
May 8th - US establishes military draft
May 11th - Columbia River discovered & named by US Capt Robert Gray
May 12th - Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented
May 16th - Denmark abolishes slave trade
May 17th - 24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
May 19th - Russian army enters Poland
Jun 1st - Kentucky admitted as 15th US state
Jun 4th - Capt George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain
Jun 12th - George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver BC
Jun 13th - King Louis XVI fires French government
Jun 21st - Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil & Mexicana off Vancouver, BC
Jul 8th - France declares war on Prussia
Jul 11th - Prussia army moves into French territory
Jul 25th - Dutch patriots exiles finds "Bataafs Legion"
Jul 25th - The Brunswick Manifesto issued to population of Paris promising vengeance if French Royal Family harmed.
Jul 30th - 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time
Jul 31st - Cornerstone laid for 1st US government building: US Mint in Phila
Aug 10th - Mobs in Paris attack palace of Louis XVI
Queen of France Marie Antoinette Aug 13th - Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette
Aug 29th - English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900
Sep 2nd - September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
Sep 11th - The Hope Diamond is stolen with other crown jewels when six men break into house used to store the jewels.
Sep 20th - French defeat Prussians at Valmy
Sep 21st - Collot D'Herbois, first man to propose to abolish the monarchy in France at National Convention
Sep 22nd - 1st First French Republic forms
Sep 26th - Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
Oct 2nd - Baptist Missionary Society forms in London
Oct 12th - First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
Oct 13th - "Old Farmer's Almanac" is 1st published
Oct 13th - Washington lays cornerstone of Executive Mansion (White House)
Oct 29th - Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
Nov 6th - Battle at Jemappes: French army beats Ausrtrians
Nov 14th - Capt George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter SF Bay
Nov 25th - Farmer's Almanac 1st published
Dec 5th - George Washington re-elected US pres
Dec 8th - 1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens
Dec 11th - France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason
Dec 12th - In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn
Dec 15th - 1st life insurance policy issued in US (Phila)
Dec 17th - Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city
Dec 26th - The final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 55 of 55

Jan 8th - Lowell Mason, Medfield Mass, organist/composer (Zebulo)
Jan 12th - Robert Patterson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
Jan 12th - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (d. 1841)
Jan 14th - Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (d. 1865)
Jan 21st - Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma, Fries story teller (Rhymes & Tales)
Feb 8th - Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1873)
Feb 12th - Ferdinand de Braekeleer, Belgian painter
Feb 23rd - Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor
Feb 27th - Don Joaquin B F Espartero, Spanish adventurer/fieldmarshal
Feb 28th - Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist
Feb 29th - Gioacchino Rossini, Pesaro Italy, composer (Barber of Seville)
Feb 29th - Karl Ernst von Baler, Russia, naturalist (discovered human ovum)
Mar 7th - John Herschel, Slough England, William Herschel's son, astronomer
Apr 4th - Thaddeus Stevens, US Radical Republican congressional leader (Rep-R)
Apr 12th - John George Lambton, London, statesman (1st Earl of Durham)
Apr 23rd - John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882)
Apr 25th - John Keble, Anglican priest/founder (Oxford Movement)
Apr 30th - Johann Friedrich Schwencke, composer
May 13th - Pius IX "Pio Nono", [Giovanni-Maria Mastai-Ferretti], Pope (1846-78)
May 21st - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)
Jun 9th - Frederic L G, Earl of Merode, Belgian revolutionary
Jun 16th - Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
Jun 16th - John Linnell, English artist (d. 1882)
Jun 19th - Gustav Schwab, writer
Jul 8th - Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, queen of Bavaria (d. 1854)
Jul 10th - George Mifflin Dallas, (D) 11th VP (1845-49)
Aug 4th - Percy Bysshe Shelley, England, romantic poet (Adonais)
Aug 13th - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen consort of William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849)
Aug 18th - John, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig PM (1846-52, 1865-66)
Aug 26th - Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857)
Sep 5th - Alexis-Charles-Maximilien Thibault, composer
Sep 5th - Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857).
Sep 8th - Joseph Netherclift, composer
Sep 14th - Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane
Sep 27th - George Cruikshank, London, caricaturist (Oliver Twist)
Oct 2nd - Philip Cipriani Hambley Potter, pianist/composer
Oct 3rd - Cipriani Potter, composer
Oct 3rd - Francisco Morazán, Central American statesman
Oct 5th - Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1844)
Oct 12th - Christian Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1860)
Oct 13th - Moritz Hauptmann, composer
Oct 19th - Dirk Donker Curtius, Dutch attorney/minister of Justice (liberal)
Oct 20th - Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer
Oct 20th - Colin Campbell/Lord Clyde, British officer (Sepoy-uprising)
Nov 11th - Mary Anne Evans, English wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872)
Nov 13th - Edward John Trelawney, England, traveler/author (Adv of Younger Son)
Nov 28th - Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education
Dec 1st - Lobachevsky, mathematician
Dec 6th - Abraham J van de Aa, lexicographer (Biographic Dictionary)
Dec 6th - King William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849)
Dec 12th - Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter
Dec 19th - [Andries] Hendrik Potgieter, Cape Colony, settled Transvaal
Dec 20th - Nicolas Charlet, French painter (d. 1845)
Inventor Charles Babbage (Dec 26th) Dec 26th - Charles Babbage, London, inventor (calculating machine), (d. 1871)
Dec 29th - Archibald Alison, Scottish historian (History of Europe)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 40 of 40

Jan 10th - Jean-Louis Laruette, composer, dies at 60
Feb 23rd - Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter (Simplicity), dies at 68
Mar 1st - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
Mar 3rd - Robert Adam, Scottish architect (Syon House, Middlesex), dies at 63
Mar 10th - John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute/English premier (1760-63), dies at 78
Mar 29th - Gustav III, King of Sweden (1771-92), dies of wounds
Apr 3rd - George Pocock, British admiral (b. 1706)
Apr 4th - James Sykes, American politician (b. 1725)
Apr 14th - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (b. 1720)
Apr 21st - Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1746)
Apr 23rd - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer (b. 1741)
Apr 25th - Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, composer, dies at 54
Apr 25th - Nicolas J Pelletier, French highwayman, 1st person guillotined
Apr 30th - Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer, dies at 36
Apr 30th - John Montague 4th Earl of Sandwich, English Naval minister, dies at 73
May 3rd - Carlo Zuccari, composer, dies at 87
May 7th - Aert Schouman, Dutch bird/portrait painter, dies at 82
May 10th - John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress
May 12th - Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710)
May 24th - George Brydges, 1st baron Rodney/admiral, dies
May 24th - Jakob M R Lenz, writer (That Soldier), dies
Jun 4th - John Burgoyne, soldier/playwright, dies
Jun 16th - Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (b. 1738)
Jun 25th - Thomas Peters, Early Sierra Leonean founder (b. 1738)
Jun 30th - Francesco Antonio Rosetti, composer, dies
Jul 18th - John Paul Jones, American naval commander (b. 1747)
Jul 29th - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
Aug 2nd - Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer, dies at 60
Aug 3rd - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732)
Aug 5th - Frederick 7th baron North, English premier (1770-82), dies at 60
Aug 17th - Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer, dies at 38
Aug 25th - Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
Sep 18th - Gottlieb August Spangenberg, founder (Moravian Church in Amer), dies
Sep 25th - Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
Oct 7th - George Mason, American statesman (b. 1725)
Oct 22nd - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
Oct 28th - Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
Oct 28th - John Smeaton, British civil engineer (b. 1724)
Nov 30th - Ernst William Wolf, composer, dies at 57
Dec 15th - Joseph Martin Kraus, composer, dies at 36