Important Historical Events of the year 1792, Year 1792 in History

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What happened in the year 1792?

Date	Event
January 9, 1792	Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed, ending the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–92.
January 12, 1792	Federalist Thomas Pinckney appointed first U.S. minister to Britain.
January 25, 1792	The London Corresponding Society is founded.
February 20, 1792	The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
March 16, 1792	King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
March 29, 1792	King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
April 2, 1792	The Coinage Act is passed by Congress, establishing the United States Mint.
April 5, 1792	United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
April 20, 1792	France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars.
April 21, 1792	Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
April 25, 1792	Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
April 25, 1792	"La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
April 28, 1792	France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
May 17, 1792	The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement.
May 21, 1792	A lava dome collapses on Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimbara on the Japanese island of Kyūshū, creating a deadly tsunami that killed nearly 15,000 people.
June 1, 1792	Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
June 4, 1792	Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
July 25, 1792	The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.
August 10, 1792	French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
August 13, 1792	King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
August 16, 1792	Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
September 2, 1792	During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
September 11, 1792	The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.
September 20, 1792	French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.
September 21, 1792	French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.
September 22, 1792	Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
October 3, 1792	A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.
October 12, 1792	The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.
October 13, 1792	In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
October 29, 1792	Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
November 6, 1792	Battle of Jemappes in the French Revolutionary Wars.
December 11, 1792	French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.