Year (''' MDCCXCII ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).
: Guillotine (1792 model, left).]]
: Mount Unzen ( Japan ) erupts.]]
: Kentucky statehood.]]
: Battle Of Valmy .]]
- Baptist Missionary Society is founded in Kettering , England .
- Dominique-Jean Larrey , chief surgeon of the Grand Armee of France, created the first ambulance wagons specifically designed as ambulances.
- Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor , last emperor, takes office.
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- King John VI takes over from his insane mother in Portugal .
- Tipu Sultan invades Kerala in India , but is repulsed.
- George Vancouver explores Puget Sound , becomes first European to see Mount Rainier .
- Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach , an astronomer, publishes "The Tables of the Sun", an essential early work for navigation.
- Claude Chappe successfully demonstrates the first Semaphore line, between Paris and Lille.
- William Murdoch begins experimenting with Gas Lighting .
- George Anschutz constructs first Blast Furnace in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania .
- Thomas Holcroft produces the play ''Road to Ruin'' in London .
- Barthelemy Catherine Joubert , later general, becomes sub-lieutenant.
- Johann Georg Albrechtberger becomes Kapellmeister in Vienna .
- State Street Corporation is founded.
- Shiloh Meeting House, predecessor of Shiloh United Methodist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia is founded.
: Mount Hood is named.]]
- January 12 - Johann Arfvedson , Swedish chemist (d. 1841 )
- February 10 - Captain Frederick Marryat , British author (d. 1848 )
- February 13 - John Williams , American scholar (d. 1846 )
- February 17 - Karl Ernst Von Baer , German naturalist (d. 1876 )
- February 29 - Gioacchino Rossini , Italian composer (d. 1868 )
- March 3 - Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler , German church historian (d. 1854 )
- March 4 - Samuel Slocum , American inventor (d. 1861 )
- March 7 - John Herschel , English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871 )
- April 1 - Karl Gottlob Zumpt , German scholar (d. 1894 )
- April 23 - John Thomas Romney Robinson , Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882 )
- April 25 - John Keble , British poet (d. 1866 )
- May 13 - Pope Pius IX (d. 1878 )
- May 15 - James Mayer Rothschild , German-born banker (d. 1868 )
- May 17 - Anne Isabella Milbanke , English wife of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
- May 21 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis , French engineer and scientist (d. 1843 )
- June 15 - John Pascoe Fawkner , Pioneer and newspaper publisher in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (d. 1869 )
- June 16 - John Linnell , British painter (d. 1882 )
- July 7 - William Henry Smith , British businessman (d. 1865 )
- July 10 - George M. Dallas , U.S. Senator and Vice President Of The United States (d. 1864 )
- June 21 - Ferdinand Christian Baur , German theologian (d. 1860 )
- August 4 - Percy Bysshe Shelley , British poet (d. 1822 )
- August 13 - Adelaide Of Saxe-Meiningen , queen of William IV Of The United Kingdom (d. 1849 )
- August 18 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1878 )
- September 19 - William Backhouse Astor, Sr. , American business tycoon (d. 1875 )
- September 26 - William Hobson , first Governor of New Zealand (d. 1842 )
- October 29 - Thomas Livingstone Mitchell , Explorer and Surveyor-General of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1855 )
- November 11 - Mary Anne Evans , wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872 )
- November 28 - Victor Cousin , French philosopher (d. 1867 )
- December 1 - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky , Russian mathematician (d. 1856 )
- December 6 - William II Of The Netherlands (d. 1849 )
- ''date unknown'' - Matteo Carcassi , Italian musician and composer (d. 1853 )
: ''See also .''
- February 23 - Sir Joshua Reynolds , British painter (b. 1723 )
- March 1 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747 )
- March 3 - Robert Adam , British architect (b. 1728 )
- March 10 - John Stuart, 3rd Earl Of Bute , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (b. 1713 )
- March 29 - King Gustav III Of Sweden (assassinated) (b. 1746 )
- April 3
- --- George Pocock , British admiral (b. 1706 )
- --- John Montagu, 4th Earl Of Sandwich , English statesman (b. 1718 )
- April 4 - James Sykes , American politician (b. 1725 )
- April 14 - Maximilian Hell , Slovakian astronomer (b. 1720 )
- April 23 - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt , German theologian and adventurer (b. 1841 )
- April 30 - John Montagu, 4th Earl Of Sandwich , English statesman (b. 1718 )
- May 10 - John Stevens , American delegate to the Continental Congress
- May 12 - Charles Simon Favart , French dramatist (b. 1710 )
- May 24 - George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney , British naval officer (b. 1718 )
- June 4 - John Burgoyne , British general (b. 1723 )
- July 3 - Ferdinand, Duke Of Brunswick (b. 1721 )
- July 18 - John Paul Jones , American naval captain (b. 1747 )
- July 29 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin De Maupeou , Chancellor of France (b. 1714 )
- August 5 - Frederick North, Lord North , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (b. 1732 )
- August 25 - Jacques Cazotte , French writer (b. 1719 )
- September 3 - Princesse De Lamballe , French friend of Marie Antoinette (murdered)
- September 8 - Charles D'Abancourt , French statesman (b. 1758 )
- September 18 - August Gottlieb Spangenberg , German religious leader (b. 1704 )
- September 25 - Adam Gottlob Moltke , Danish statesman (b. 1710 )
- October 7 - George Mason , American patriot (b. 1725 )
- October 22 - Guillaume Le Gentil , French astronomer (b. 1725 )
- October 28
- --- Paul Möhring , German physician and scientist (b. 1710 )
- --- John Smeaton , English civil engineer (b. 1724 )
- December 15 - Joseph Martin Kraus , Swedish composer (b. 1756 )
- ''date unknown'' - Muhammad Ibn Abd-al-Wahhab , Arabic preacher (b. 1703 )
: ''See also .''
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