Page 4: Historical Events In 1792

Sep 14   Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane.   

Sep 18   Gottlieb August Spangenberg, founder (Moravian Church in Amer), dies.   

Sep 20   French defeat Prussians at Valmy   

Sep 21   1st French Republic forms.   

Sep 21   France is recorded as becoming a republic, abolishing its monarchy.   

Sep 21   The French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy   

Sep 22   Origin of French Republican Era   

Sep 26   Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France   

Sep 27   George Cruikshank, English illustrator and caricaturist is born.   

Sep 27   George Cruikshank, London, caricaturist (Oliver Twist)   

Oct 02   Baptist Missionary Society forms in London.   

Oct 02   Philip Cipriani Hambley Potter, pianist/composer   

Oct 03   Cipriani Potter, composer.   

Oct 12   Columbus Day is 1st celebrated.   

Oct 13   "Old Farmer's Almanac" is 1st published   

Oct 13   Moritz Hauptmann, composer   

Oct 13   Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House).   

Oct 19   Dirk Donker Curtius, Dutch attorney/minister of Justice (liberal).   

Oct 20   Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer   

Oct 29   Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River   

Nov 06   Battle at Jemappes: French army beats Ausrtrians.   

Nov 13   Edward John Trelawney, England, traveler/author (Adv of Younger Son).   

Nov 14   Capt George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter SF Bay.   

Nov 14   Capt George Vancouver is inaugural Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay   

Nov 25   Farmer's Almanac 1st published   

Nov 28   Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education   

Nov 30   Ernst William Wolf, composer, dies at 57   

Dec 01   Lobachevsky, mathematician.   

Dec 05   George Washington re-elected US pres   

Dec 06   Abraham J van de Aa, lexicographer (Biographic Dictionary).   

Dec 08   1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens   

Dec 11   France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason   

Dec 12   Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter.   

Dec 12   In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn.   

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Jan 08   Lowell mason: Medfield mass, organist/composer (zebulo)   

Jan 12   Robert patterson: Major general (union volunteers), died in 1881   

Jan 12   Johan august arfwedson: Swedish chemist    

Jan 14   Christian julius de meza: Danish general   

Jan 21   Tsjalling hiddes halbertsma: Fries story teller (rhymes & tales)   

Feb 08   Caroline augusta of bavaria: Queen of hungary and bohemia    

Feb 12   Ferdinand de braekeleer: Belgian painter   

Feb 23   Istvan ferenczi: Hungarian sculptor   

Jan 10   Jean-louis laruette: Composer,   

Feb 23   Joshua reynolds: English portrait painter (simplicity),   

Mar 01   Leopold ii: Holy roman emperor (b. 1747)   

Mar 03   Robert adam: Scottish architect (syon house, middlesex),    

Mar 10   John stuart: 3rd earl of bute/english premier (1760-63),   

Mar 29   Gustav iii: King of sweden (1771-92),   

Apr 03   George pocock: British admiral (b. 1706)   

Apr 04   James sykes: American politician (b. 1725)