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1792
Events from the year 1792 in France.
Incumbents
Monarch: Louis XVI (until 21 September; monarchy abolished)Louis XVI Biography, Reign, Execution, & Facts Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XVI www.britannica.com 25 June 2022 en
The Legislative Assembly (until 21 September)Bentham Jeremy Rights, Representation, and Reform: Nonsense Upon Stilts and Other Writings on the French Revolution 2002 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-924863-6 291 https://books.google.com/books?id=3C1NRsqMt4cC&pg=PA291 en
The National Convention (from 21 September)
Events
March
25 March – The Legislative Assembly agrees that the guillotine should be used for judicial executions.
April
20 April – The Legislative Assembly declares war against Austria, starting the French Revolutionary Wars and War of the First Coalition.
25 April
Highwayman Nicolas Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine in France, in what becomes the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville in Paris.
La Marseillaise, the French national anthem, is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg.
June
13 June – Prussia declares war against France.
20 June – Demonstration of 20 June 1792.
August
280px|thumb|10 August: Storming of the Tuileries (Musée de la Révolution française)
10 August – French Revolution: Insurrection of 10 August 1792 – The Tuileries Palace is stormed and Louis XVI is arrested and taken into custody.
20 August – War of the First Coalition: Battle of Verdun – Prussia defeats France, opening a route to Paris.Parker Geoffrey The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare 2008 Cambridge University Press New York 978-0-521-73806-4 195 https://books.google.com/books?id=yqNj5BlEMtcC&pg=PA195 2012-01-22
21 August – Royalist Louis Collenot d'Angremont becomes the first person executed by guillotine for political reasons, in the Place du Carrousel in Paris.
September
2–19 September – 1792 French National Convention election.
2–7 September – French Revolution: September Massacres – Rampaging mobs in Paris slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops and more than 200 priests, together with at least 1,000 criminals.
9 September – 9 September massacres at Versailles.
11 September – Six men steal some of the former French Crown Jewels from a warehouse, where the revolutionary government has stored them.
14 September – Radical antimonarchist Thomas Paine flees from England to France, after being indicted for treason. He is tried in absentia during December and outlawed.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 232–233 978-0-7126-5616-0
20 September – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Valmy – The French revolutionary army defeats the Prussians under the Duke of Brunswick after a 7-hour artillery duel.
thumb|right|20 September: Battle of Valmy
21 September – French Revolution: A Proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy by the French Convention goes into effect, and the French First Republic is established, effective the following day.
22 September – French Revolution: The Era of the historical French Republican Calendar begins.
November
6 November – War of the First Coalition: Battle of Jemappes – Austrian armies under the command of Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen are defeated in Belgium (at this time part of the Austrian Netherlands) by the French Army led by General Charles François Dumouriez.Eric J. Evans The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783–1870 Routledge 2014
19 November – The National Convention passes a resolution pledging French support for the overthrow of the governments of other nations.Robert Bisset The Reign of George III: To which is Prefixed a View of the Progressive Improvements of England in Property and Strength to the Accession of His Majesty 2 Edward Parker 1822 855
December
26 December – The trial of Louis XVI begins.
Ongoing
French Revolution
French Revolutionary Wars
War of the First Coalition
Full date unknown
Claude Chappe successfully demonstrates the first semaphore line, between Paris and Lille.
Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, future general, becomes sub-lieutenant.
Births
21 May – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, engineer, scientist
1 August – Pierre Solomon Ségalas d'Etchépare, physicianSégal Alain 2008 Outline of the work of Pierre Salomon Ségalas of Etchépare (1792-1875) Histoire des sciences médicales 42 2 199–204 France 0440-8888 19230322
9 August – Charles-François Lebœuf, sculptor
25 August – Jean-Baptiste Duvergier, lawyer
28 November – Victor Cousin, philosopher
Deaths
thumb|right|110px|Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de LamballeJanuary 2025
1 March – Jean Godin des Odonais, cartographer and naturalist
12 May – Charles Simon Favart, dramatist
29 July – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France
21 August – Louis Collenot d'Angremont, counter-revolutionary (guillotined)
23 August – Arnaud II de La Porte, statesman (executed)
25 August – Jacques Cazotte, writer (executed)
3 September
Karl Josef von Bachmann, Swiss Guards commander (guillotined)
Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, princess, courtier to Marie Antoinette (killed in September Massacres)
9 September
Louis Hercule Timoléon de Cossé, 8th Duke of Brissac, military commander (killed in September Massacres)
Claude Antoine de Valdec de Lessart, politician
Charles d'Abancourt, minister (killed in September Massacres)
22 October – Guillaume Le Gentil, astronomer
7 December – Marie Jeanne Riccoboni, novelist
Full date unknown – Nicholas Adam, grammarian
See also
France History Lists
References
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