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Events from the year1792 in the United States.

• President:George Washington (no political party-Virginia)
• Vice President:John Adams (F-Massachusetts)
• Chief Justice:John Jay (New York)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. (Pro-Admin.-Connecticut)
• Congress:2nd

• February 20 – ThePostal Service Act, establishing theUnited States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
• March 20 – A new capital ofNorth Carolina and county seat of the newly formedWake County is established after North CarolinaState Senator and surveyor William Christmas submits his design for the city. A few months later the capital is officially namedRaleigh in honor of SirWalter Raleigh.

• April 2 – TheCoinage Act is passed establishing theUnited States Mint.
• April 5 –United States PresidentGeorge Washingtonvetoes a bill designed to apportion representatives amongU.S. states. This is the first time the presidential veto is used in the United States.
• May 10 – Union Bank is founded inBoston. In 1925 it merges with State Street Trust Company, now known as theState Street Corporation^[1]
• May 11 –Robert Gray's Columbia River expedition: CaptainRobert Gray becomes the first explorer to enter theColumbia River.
• May 17 – TheButtonwood Agreement is signed, beginning theNew York Stock Exchange.
• June 1 –Kentucky becomes the 15th state ofThe United States of America (seeHistory of Kentucky).
• June 4 –Isaac Shelby is inaugurated as the firstgovernor of Kentucky.
• June 9 – Denmark recognizes the independence of the United States.^[2]

• October 12 – The firstColumbus Day celebration in the United States is held inNew York City, 300 years after his arrival in the New World.
• October 13 – Foundation ofWashington, D.C.: The cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion, known as theWhite House after 1818, is laid.
• October 29 –Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after British AdmiralLord Hood byLt. William Broughton of theVancouver Expedition, who spots the mountain near the mouth of theWillamette River.
• December 3 –George Washington is re-electedPresident of the United States.

• George Anschutz constructs the firstblast furnace inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• Shiloh Meeting House, predecessor of Shiloh United Methodist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, is founded.
• Pearson & Sons bakery, earliest predecessor ofNabisco, opens in Massachusetts.

• Northwest Indian War (1785–1795)

• February 15 –Floride Calhoun,Second Lady of the U.S. as wife ofJohn C. Calhoun (died1866)
• March 4
  • Isaac Lea, conchologist, geologist, and publisher (died1886)
  • Samuel Slocum, inventor (died1861)
• April 4 –Thaddeus Stevens, politician (died1868)
• May 10 –Willie Person Mangum, politician (died1861)
• June 13 –William Austin Burt, inventor ("Father of the typewriter") (died1858)
• July 10 –George M. Dallas, 11thvice president of the United States from 1845 to 1849 (died1864)
• September 1 –Chester Harding, portrait painter (died1866)
• September 7 –David J. Baker, U.S. Senator from Illinois in 1830 (died1869)
• September 19 –William Backhouse Astor, Sr., business tycoon (died1875)
• September 22 –John James Appleton, diplomat, born inFrance (died1864)
• November 10 –Samuel Nelson,Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died1873)
• November 15 –Isaac Toucey, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1851 to 1857 (died 1869)
• November 26 –Sarah Grimké, abolitionist and suffragist (died 1873)
• December 5 –James Guthrie, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1865 to 1868 (died 1869)
• Date unknown –Robert H. Adams, U.S. Senator from Mississippi in 1830 (died1830)

• February 15 –John Witherspoon, signatory of the Declaration of Independence (born1723)
• April 4 –James Sykes, delegate to the Continental Congress (born1725)
• May 10 –John Stevens, New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress (born c.1715)
• July 18 –John Paul Jones, sailor and the U.S.'s first well-known naval fighter in theAmerican Revolution (born1747 in Great Britain)
• October 7 –George Mason, patriot, statesman and delegate (born1725)
• December 8 –Henry Laurens, 5thpresident of the Continental Congress, signatory of theArticles of Confederation, father ofJohn Laurens (born1724)

• Timeline of United States history (1790–1819)

• Edward Thornton. The United States through English Spectacles in 1792–1794. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 9, No. 2 (July, 1885), pp. 214–222.
• Narrative of John Heckewelder's Journey to the Wabash in 1792. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 12, No. 2 (July, 1888), pp. 165–184.
• Lists of Foreigners Who Arrived at Philadelphia, 1791–1792. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 24, No. 2 (1900), pp. 187–194.
• Max Farrand. The First Hayburn Case, 1792. The American Historical Review, Vol. 13, No. 2 (January, 1908), pp. 281–285.
• F. W. Howay, T. C. Elliott. Voyages of the "Jenny" to Oregon, 1792–94.Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 3 (September, 1929), pp. 197–206.
• J. Neilson Barry. Broughton, up Columbia River, 1792. Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 4 (December, 1931), pp. 301–312.
• Lawrence Kinnaird. The Significance of William Augustus Bowles' Seizure of Panton's Apalachee Store in 1792. The Florida Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 3 (January, 1931), pp. 156–192.
• J. Neilson Barry. Columbia River Exploration, 1792. Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 1 (March, 1932), pp. 31–42.
• Harold Kirker. The New Theater, Philadelphia, 1791–1792. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 22, No. 1 (March, 1963), pp. 36–37.
• Loren K. Ruff. Joseph Harper and Boston's Board Alley Theatre, 1792–1793. Educational Theatre Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1 (March, 1974), pp. 45–52.
• James P. Whittenburg. "The Common Farmer (Number 2)": Herman Husband's Plan for Peace between the United States and the Indians, 1792. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 34, No. 4 (October, 1977), pp. 647–650.
• R. David Edmunds. "Nothing Has Been Effected": The Vincennes Treaty of 1792. Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 74, No. 1 (March 1978), pp. 23–35.
• Helen Hornbeck Tanner. The Glaize in 1792: A Composite Indian Community. Ethnohistory, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Winter, 1978), pp. 15–39.
• James P. Walsh. "Mechanics and Citizens": The Connecticut Artisan Protest of 1792. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 42, No. 1 (January, 1985), pp. 66–89.
• Michael L. Kennedy. A French Jacobin Club in Charleston, South Carolina, 1792–1795. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 91, No. 1 (January, 1990), pp. 4–22.
• Don Alexander Hawkins. The Landscape of the Federal City: A 1792 Walking Tour. Washington History, Vol. 3, No. 1, Special Bicentennial Issue: Washington D.C., 1791–1991 (Spring/Summer, 1991), pp. 10–33.
• David J. Cowen. The First Bank of the United States and the Securities Market Crash of 1792. The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 60, No. 4 (December, 2000), pp. 1041–1060.
• Jim Mockford. Before Lewis and Clark, Lt. Broughton's River of Names: The Columbia River Exploration of 1792. Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 106, No. 4 (Winter, 2005), pp. 542–567.

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