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File:Tuileries Henri Motte.jpg August 10 : French Revolution leaders send troops to storm the Tuilleries Palace and capture King Louis XVI.Template:C18 year in topic
File:Unzen pyroclastic and lahar deposits.jpg May 21 : Mount Unzen erupts. Template:Year article header
Events
January 9 – The Treaty of Jassy ends the Russian Empire 's war with the Ottoman Empire over Crimea .[ 1] January 25 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.February 18 – Thomas Holcroft produces the comedy The Road to Ruin February 20
March 1 – Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor , the last emperor, takes office.March 7 – A settlement is formed in Sierra Leone in West Africa as a home for freed slaves.[ 4] March 16 – Assassination of Gustav III : 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 then succeeded by his 14-year-old son, Gustav IV Adolf .March 20 – A new capital of North Carolina , and 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 .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 – The National Legislative Assembly (France) agrees that the guillotine should be used for judicial executions.
April 2 – The Coinage Act is passed, establishing the United States Mint .[ 2] 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, beginning the French Revolutionary Wars and the War of the First Coalition .April 21 – Tiradentes , a leading figure in the Inconfidência Mineira conspiracy, is executed in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil .April 25
May 11 – Robert Gray's Columbia River expedition : Captain Robert Gray , on the Columbia Rediviva Columbia River .[ 2] 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 – 1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami : An old lava dome collapses in Kyūshū , Japan, due to activity of Mount Unzen volcano; the resulting avalanche and tsunami kill about 14,300 people.May 29 – The Great Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is disbanded following the Russian invasion of Poland .June 1 – Kentucky becomes the 15th state of the United States of America.[ 2] June 4 – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Great Britain.June 13
File:Valmy Battle painting.jpg September 20 : Battle of Valmy .
File:Mount Hood reflected in Mirror Lake, Oregon.jpg October 29 : Mount Hood is named.
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Tipu Sultan invades Kerala , India, but is repulsed.Hungarian astronomer Franz Xaver von Zach publishes The Tables of the Sun , an essential early work for navigation.
Claude Chappe successfully demonstrates the first semaphore line , between Paris and Lille.Scottish engineer William Murdoch begins experimenting with gas lighting .
George Anschutz constructs the first blast furnace in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania .
Mary Wollstonecraft 's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Barthélemy Catherine Joubert , future French general, becomes sub-lieutenant.Johann Georg Albrechtsberger becomes Kapellmeister in Vienna .The State Street Corporation is founded, in Boston , Massachusetts .
The Insurance Company of North America (later Chubb ) is founded in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania .
Shiloh Meeting House, predecessor of Shiloh United Methodist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, is founded.
The first written examinations in Europe are held at the University of Cambridge in England.
The composer Ludwig van Beethoven moves to Vienna from Bonn to study with Haydn . He would live in Vienna for the rest of his life.
James Johnstone establishes that Vancouver Island is an island .
Births
File:Rossini c. 1850-litho-F Perrin.jpeg Gioachino Rossini File:Thaddeus Stevens - Brady-Handy-crop.jpg Thaddeus Stevens File:IX. Piusz pápa.jpg 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 )[ 12] March 3 – Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler , German church historian (d. 1854 )March 4
March 7 – John Herschel , English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871 )[ 13] 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 of Lord Byron (d. 1860 )May 18 – Margaret Ann Neve , Guernesiaise supercentenarian (d. 1903 )May 21 – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis , French engineer and scientist (d. 1843 )[ 14] June 13 – William Austin Burt , American inventor, "father of the typewriter" (d. 1858 )June 16 – John Linnell , English painter (d. 1882 )[ 15] June 21 – Ferdinand Christian Baur , German theologian (d. 1860 )
File:Percy Bysshe Shelley by Alfred Clint.jpg Percy Bysshe Shelley File:John-Russell-1st-Earl-Russell (cropped).jpg 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 )[ 16] July 27 – Maria Quitéria , Brazilian national heroine (d. 1853 )August 4 – Percy Bysshe Shelley , English poet (d. 1822 )[ 17] August 13 – Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen , queen of William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849 )[ 18] 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 )[ 19] 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 11 – Joseph Higginson , British Royal Marine in the Napoleonic Wars (d. 1881 )October 29 – Thomas Livingstone Mitchell , explorer, Surveyor-General of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1855 )November 4 – Carlos Antonio López , president of Paraguay (d. 1862 )November 10 – Samuel Nelson , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1873 )November 11 – Mary Anne Evans , wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872 )November 28 – Victor Cousin , French philosopher (d. 1867 )[ 20] December 1 – Nikolai Lobachevsky , Russian mathematician (d. 1856 )December 5 – Andrés de Santa Cruz , Peruvian military officer, seventh President of Peru and President of Bolivia (d. 1865 )December 6 – William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849 )date unknown – Nodira , Uzbek poet and stateswoman (d. 1842 )
Deaths
File:Admiral of the White by Thomas Gainsborough.jpg George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney January 17 – George Horne , British academic and Bishop of Norwich (b.1730 )February 15 – John Witherspoon , Scottish American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1723 )February 23 – Sir Joshua Reynolds , English painter (b. 1723 )[ 21] March 1
March 3 – Robert Adam , Scottish architect and designer (b. 1728 )[ 22] March 10 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1713 )[ 23] March 23 – Luís António Verney , Portuguese philosopher and pedagogue (b. 1713 )March 29 – King Gustav III of Sweden (assassinated) (b. 1746 )April 3 – Sir George 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 )[ 24] 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 )[ 25] May 24 – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney , British naval officer (b. 1718 )June 4 – John Burgoyne , British general (b. 1723 )[ 26] June 22 – Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab , Arabian Wahhabi preacher (b. 1703 )
File:Madame la princesse de Lamballe by Antoine-François Callet (circa 1776, Callet).jpg 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 )[ 27] September 3 – Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe , French princess, courtier to Marie Antoinette (killed in September 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 )[ 28] December 8 – Henry Laurens , political leader during the American Revolutionary War , father of John Laurens (b. 1724 )December 15
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↑ "BBC History British History Timeline" . Archived from the original on September 9, 2007. Retrieved September 4, 2007 .↑ Madiou, Thomas (1847). Histoire d'Haïti, Tome I ↑ Blanchard, Anne; Contamine, Philippe (1992). Histoire militaire de la France (in French). 2 : de 1715 à 1871. PUF. p. 264. ISBN 978-2-13-044415-2 ↑ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 232–233. ISBN 978-0-7126-5616-0 ↑ Barros Arana, Diego (2000) [1886]. "Capítulo XVII". Historia General de Chile VII (2 ed.). Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universitaria . pp. 66–70. ISBN 956-11-1535-2 ↑ Eric J. Evans, The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783-1870 (Routledge, 2014)
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