WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO NOVEMBER 1792
Find out what all happened April to November 1792

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

First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York City. (12. October 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)

Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered. (21. April 1792)

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

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

France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars. (20. 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)

In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid. (13. October 1792)

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

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

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

France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War. (28. April 1792)

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

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

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