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1792 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1792 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
Monarch – George III
Prime Minister – William Pitt the Younger (Tory)History of William Pitt 'The Younger' - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/william-pitt www.gov.uk 1 July 2023 en
Foreign Secretary – Lord Grenville
Events
January – the investment management business which will become the Charles Stanley Group in London is established as a banking partnership in Sheffield.About Us https://www.charles-stanley.co.uk/about-us Charles Stanley 2021-08-14
25 January – the radical London Corresponding Society is established.https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml BBC History British History Timeline 4 September 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070909012414/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml 9 September 2007
7 March – a settlement is formed in Sierra Leone in West Africa as a home for freed slaves.
23 March – Joseph Haydn premieres his Symphony No. 94 (the "Surprise"), the second of his twelve London symphonies, at the Hanover Square Rooms.
4 June – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain.
21 June – Iolo Morganwg holds the first Gorsedd ceremony, at Primrose Hill in London.
September – Macartney Embassy: George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, sails from Portsmouth in HMS Lion as the first official envoy from the Kingdom of Great Britain to China.
14 September – radical Thomas Paine flees to France after being indicted for treason.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 232–233 978-0-7126-5616-0
29 September – first St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, London (Roman Catholic) consecrated as a chapel.
2 October – Baptist Missionary Society is founded in Kettering.
18 December – the trial of Thomas Paine in absentia for treason begins.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 978-0-14-102715-9 2006 He is outlawed.
Undated
Over 300 petitions are presented to Parliament against the slave trade. The House of Commons pledges to abolish the trade "gradually".http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2007/03/23121622/0 https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20170401195036/http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2007/03/23121622/0 dead 1 April 2017 Scotland and the Slave Trade: 2007 Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, Scottish Executive website 1 September 2007
"Year of the Sheep" in the Scottish Highlands: mass emigration of crofters following Clearances for grazing.
Fox's Libel Act restores to juries the right to determine what constitutes libel; it remains in force until abolition of criminal libel in 2010.
Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna establish the newsagent's business in Little Grosvenor Street, London, which will become W H Smith.http://www.whsmithplc.co.uk/WHSPLC-OC-History1.htm Our Company: History 1792–1900 W H Smith PLC 2008 13 July 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20090627135545/http://www.whsmithplc.co.uk/WHSPLC-OC-History1.htm 27 June 2009 dead
Publications
Thomas Holcroft's Anna St. Ives, the first British Jacobin novel.
Thomas Paine's second edition of Rights of Man, urging the overthrow of the British monarchy.1792 The People's Chronology Everett, Jason M. Thomson Gale 2006
Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, one of the earliest works of feminist literature.
Births
10 February – Frederick Marryat, author (died 1848)
19 February – Roderick Murchison, geologist (died 1871)
7 March – John Herschel, mathematician and astronomer (died 1871)
12 April – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (died 1840)
25 April – John Keble, churchman and poet (died 1866)
17 May – Anne Isabella Milbanke, wife of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (died 1860)
16 June – John Linnell, painter (died 1882)
7 July – William Henry Smith, businessman (died 1865)
4 August – Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (died 1822)
13 August – Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen of William IV (died 1849)
18 August – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister (died 1878)
11 November – Mary Anne Disraeli, wife of Benjamin Disraeli (died 1872)
Deaths
27 January – George Horne, bishop (born 1730)
8 February – Hannah Snell, soldier (born 1723)
23 February – Sir Joshua Reynolds, painter (born 1723)
3 March – Robert Adam, architect (born 1728)
10 March – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister (born 1713)History of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/john-stuart-3rd-earl-of-bute www.gov.uk 19 June 2023 en
3 April – George Pocock, admiral (born 1706)
30 April – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, statesman, First Lord of the Admiralty and rake (born 1718)
24 May – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, naval officer (born 1719)
4 June – John Burgoyne, general (born 1723)
18 July – John Paul Jones, sailor and the United States's first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolution (born 1747)
3 August – Richard Arkwright, inventor (born 1732)
4 August – John Burgoyne, army officer, playwright and politician (born 1722)
5 August – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister (born 1732)History of Lord Frederick North - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/frederick-north www.gov.uk 1 July 2023 en
28 October – John Smeaton, civil engineer (born 1724)
See also
1792 in Wales
References
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