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May 21 :Mount Unzen erupts.1792 (MDCCXCII ) was aleap year starting on Sunday of theGregorian calendar and aleap year starting on Thursday of theJulian calendar , the 1792nd year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini (AD) designations, the 792nd year of the2nd millennium , the 92nd year of the18th century , and the 3rd year of the1790s decade. As of the start of 1792, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
January 9 – TheTreaty of Jassy ends theRussian Empire 's war with theOttoman Empire overCrimea .[ 1] January 25 – TheLondon Corresponding Society is founded.February 18 –Thomas Holcroft produces the comedyThe Road to Ruin in London.February 20 March 1 –Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor , the last emperor, takes office.March 7 – A settlement is formed inSierra Leone in West Africa as a home for freed slaves.[ 4] March 16 –Assassination of Gustav III : KingGustav III of Sweden is shot in the back byJacob Johan Anckarström , at a midnightmasquerade at the Royal Opera in Stockholm; he lives untilMarch 29 , and is then succeeded by his 14-year-old son,Gustav IV Adolf .March 20 – A new capital ofNorth Carolina , and 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 .March 22 –Haitian Revolution :Battle of Croix-des-Bouquets – Black slave insurgents gain a victory in the first major battle of the revolution.[ 5] March 25 – TheNational Legislative Assembly (France) agrees that theguillotine should be used for judicial executions.April 2 – TheCoinage Act is passed, establishing theUnited States Mint .[ 2] April 5 – United States PresidentGeorge Washington vetoes a bill designed to apportion representatives amongU.S. states . This is the first time the presidential veto is used in the United States.April 20 – France declares war against Austria, beginning theFrench Revolutionary Wars and theWar of the First Coalition .April 21 –Tiradentes , a leading figure in theInconfidência Mineira conspiracy, is executed inRio de Janeiro ,Brazil .April 25 May 11 –Robert Gray's Columbia River expedition : CaptainRobert Gray , on theColumbia Rediviva , becomes the first white man to discover the mouth of theColumbia River .[ 2] May 17 – TheButtonwood Agreement is signed, beginning theNew York Stock Exchange .May 18 –War in Defence of the Constitution : Russia invades Poland.May 21 –1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami : An old lava dome collapses inKyūshū , Japan, due to activity ofMount Unzen volcano; the resultingavalanche andtsunami kill about 14,300 people.May 29 – TheGreat Sejm of thePolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is disbanded following theRussian invasion of Poland .June 1 –Kentucky becomes the 15th state of the United States of America.[ 2] June 4 – CaptainGeorge Vancouver claimsPuget Sound for Great Britain.June 13 September 20 :Battle of Valmy .October 29 :Mount Hood is named.Tipu Sultan invadesKerala , India, but is repulsed.Hungarian astronomerFranz Xaver von Zach publishesThe Tables of the Sun , an essential early work for navigation. Claude Chappe successfully demonstrates the firstsemaphore line , between Paris and Lille.Scottish engineerWilliam Murdoch begins experimenting withgas lighting . George Anschutz constructs the firstblast furnace inPittsburgh ,Pennsylvania . Mary Wollstonecraft 'sA Vindication of the Rights of Woman , one of the earliest works of feminist literature, is published in London.Barthélemy Catherine Joubert , future French general, becomes sub-lieutenant.Johann Georg Albrechtsberger becomesKapellmeister inVienna .TheState Street Corporation is founded, inBoston ,Massachusetts . TheInsurance Company of North America (laterChubb ) is founded inPhiladelphia ,Pennsylvania . Shiloh Meeting House, predecessor of Shiloh United Methodist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, is founded. The firstwritten examinations in Europe are held at theUniversity of Cambridge in England. The composerLudwig van Beethoven moves toVienna from Bonn to study withHaydn . He would live in Vienna for the rest of his life. James Johnstone establishes thatVancouver Island is anisland .Gioachino Rossini Thaddeus Stevens Pope Pius IX January 12 –Johann Arfvedson , Swedish chemist (d.1841 )February 17 –Karl Ernst von Baer , German naturalist (d.1876 )February 29 –Gioachino Rossini , Italian composer (d.1868 )[ 11] March 3 –Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler , German church historian (d.1854 )March 4 March 7 –John Herschel , English mathematician and astronomer (d.1871 )[ 12] April 1 –Karl Gottlob Zumpt , German classical scholar (d.1849 )April 2 –Francisco de Paula Santander , President of Colombia (d.1840 )April 4 –Thaddeus Stevens , American politician (d.1868 )April 23 –Thomas Romney Robinson , Irish astronomer and physicist (d.1882 )April 25 –John Keble , English churchman and poet (d.1866 )May 10 –Willie Person Mangum , American politician (d.1861 )May 13 –Pope Pius IX (b. Giovanni Mastai-Ferretti), Italian churchman (d.1878 )May 15 –James Mayer de Rothschild , German-born banker (d.1868 )May 17 –Anne Isabella Milbanke , English wife ofLord Byron (d.1860 )May 18 –Margaret Ann Neve , Guernesiaisesupercentenarian (d.1903 )May 21 –Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis , French engineer and scientist (d.1843 )[ 13] June 13 –William Austin Burt , American inventor, "father of the typewriter" (d.1858 )June 16 –John Linnell , English painter (d.1882 )[ 14] June 21 –Ferdinand Christian Baur , German theologian (d.1860 )Percy Bysshe Shelley John Russell, 1st Earl Russell July 7 –William Henry Smith , English newsvendor and bookseller (d.1865 )July 10 –Frederick Marryat , British naval captain and novelist (d.1848 )[ 15] July 27 –Maria Quitéria , Brazilian national heroine (d.1853 )August 4 –Percy Bysshe Shelley , English poet (d.1822 )[ 16] August 13 –Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen , queen ofWilliam IV of the United Kingdom (d.1849 )[ 17] August 18 –John Russell, 1st Earl Russell ,Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d.1878 )August 22 –John Church Hamilton , American historian (d.1882 )August 26 –Manuel Oribe , 2nd President of Uruguay (d.1857 )[ 18] September 2 –Vicente Ramón Roca , 3rd President of Ecuador (d.1858 )September 19 –William Backhouse Astor, Sr. , American business tycoon (d.1875 )September 26 –William Hobson , first Governor of New Zealand (d.1842 )October 29 –Thomas Livingstone Mitchell , explorer, Surveyor-General of New South Wales, Australia (d.1855 )November 4 –Carlos Antonio López , president ofParaguay (d.1862 )November 10 –Samuel Nelson ,Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.1873 )November 11 –Mary Anne Evans , wife ofBenjamin Disraeli (d.1872 )November 28 –Victor Cousin , French philosopher (d.1867 )[ 19] December 1 –Nikolai Lobachevsky , Russian mathematician (d.1856 )December 5 –Andrés de Santa Cruz , Peruvian military officer, seventhPresident of Peru andPresident of Bolivia (d.1865 )December 6 –William II of the Netherlands (d.1849 )date unknown –Nodira , Uzbek poet and stateswoman (d.1842 )George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney January 17 –George Horne , British academic andBishop of Norwich (b.1730 )February 15 –John Witherspoon , Scottish American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b.1723 )February 23 – SirJoshua Reynolds , English painter (b.1723 )[ 20] March 1 March 1 –Angelo Emo , Venetian admiral and statesman (b.1731 )March 3 –Robert Adam , Scottish architect and designer (b.1728 )[ 21] March 10 –John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ,Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.1713 )[ 22] March 23 –Luís António Verney , Portuguese philosopher and pedagogue (b.1713 )March 29 – KingGustav III of Sweden (assassinated) (b.1746 )April 3 – SirGeorge Pocock , British admiral (b.1706 )April 4 –James Sykes , American politician (b.1725 )April 14 –Maximilian Hell , Slovakian astronomer (b.1720 )April 20 –Matthias von Schoenberg , Catholic author (b.1732 )[ 23] April 23 –Karl Friedrich Bahrdt , German theologian, adventurer (b.1741 )April 30 –John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich , English statesman (b.1718 )May 10 –John Stevens , American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. c.1715 )May 12 –Charles Simon Favart , French dramatist (b.1710 )[ 24] May 24 –George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney , British naval officer (b.1718 )June 4 –John Burgoyne , British general (b.1723 )[ 25] June 22 –Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab , Arabian Wahhabi preacher (b.1703 )Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe July 3 –Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b.1721 )July 18 –John Paul Jones , American-born naval captain (b.1747 )July 21 –Richard Hancorne , British Royal Navy officer (b.1754 )July 29 –René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou , Chancellor of France (b.1714 )August 3 –Richard Arkwright , English inventor (b.1732 )August 4 –John Burgoyne , British army officer, playwright and politician (b.1722 )August 5 –Frederick North, Lord North ,Prime Minister of Great Britain (b.1732 )[ 26] September 3 –Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe , French princess, courtier toMarie Antoinette (killed inSeptember Massacres ) (b.1749 )September 8 –Charles d'Abancour , French statesman (killed in September Massacres) (b.1758 )September 16 –Nguyễn Huệ , Vietnamese emperor (b.1753 )September 18 –August Gottlieb Spangenberg , German religious leader (b.1704 )September 25 –Adam Gottlob Moltke , Danish statesman (b.1710 )September 29 –George Browne , Russian-Irish field-marshal (b.1698 )October 7 –George Mason , American patriot (b.1725 )October 14 –Sophie Charlotte Ackermann , German actress (b.1714 )October 21 –Anders Rudolf du Rietz , Swedish general, count and politician (b.1722 )October 22 –Guillaume Le Gentil , French astronomer (b.1725 )October 28 November –Samuel Hearne , English explorer, fur-trader, author and naturalist (b.1745 )December 7 –Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (Laboras de Mezières), French novelist (b.1714 )[ 27] December 8 –Henry Laurens , 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