WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1792
Find out what all happened January to September 1792

Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain. (4. June 1792)

The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed. (25. July 1792)

La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. (25. April 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. (10. August 1792)

U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States. (5. April 1792)

War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia. (15. May 1792)

Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal. (16. August 1792)

Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being. (22. September 1792)

The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint. (2. April 1792)

Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States. (1. June 1792)

The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored. (11. September 1792)

During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers. (2. September 1792)

Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River. (11. May 1792)

The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy. (21. September 1792)

Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine. (25. April 1792)

King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people. (13. August 1792)

The New York Stock Exchange is formed. (17. May 1792)

Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France. (26. September 1792)

French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy. (20. September 1792)

The London Corresponding Society is founded. (25. January 1792)