1792 in France
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Events from the year1792 inFrance.
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch:Louis XVI(until 21 September; monarchy abolished)[1]
- TheLegislative Assembly(until 21 September)[2]
- TheNational Convention(from 21 September)[2]
Events
[edit]March
[edit]- 25 March – The Legislative Assembly agrees that theguillotineshould be used for judicial executions.
April
[edit]- 20 April – TheLegislative Assemblydeclares war againstAustria,starting theFrench Revolutionary WarsandWar of the First Coalition.
- 25 April
- HighwaymanNicolas Pelletierbecomes the first person executed byguillotinein France, in what becomes the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville in Paris.
- La Marseillaise,the Frenchnational anthem,is composed byClaude Joseph Rouget de LisleinStrasbourg.
June
[edit]- 13 June –Prussiadeclares war against France.
- 20 June –Demonstration of 20 June 1792.
August
[edit]- 10 August –French Revolution:Insurrection of 10 August 1792– TheTuileries Palaceis stormed andLouis XVI of Franceis arrested and taken into custody.
- 20 August –War of the First Coalition:Battle of Verdun– Prussia defeats France, opening a route to Paris.[3]
- 21 August – Royalist Louis Collenot d'Angremont becomes the first person executed byguillotinefor political reasons, in thePlace du Carrouselin Paris.
September
[edit]- 2–19 September –1792 French National Convention election.
- 2–7 September –French Revolution:September Massacres– Rampaging mobs in Paris slaughter threeRoman Catholicbishopsand more than 200priests,together with at least 1,000 criminals.
- 9 September –9 September massacresatVersailles.
- 11 September – Six men steal some of the formerFrench Crown Jewelsfrom a warehouse, where the revolutionary government has stored them.
- 14 September – Radical antimonarchistThomas Paineflees from England to France, after being indicted for treason. He istriedin absentiaduring December andoutlawed.[4]
- 20 September –French Revolutionary Wars:Battle of Valmy– The French revolutionary army defeats the Prussians under theDuke of Brunswickafter a 7-hour artillery duel.
- 21 September –French Revolution:AProclamation of the abolition of the monarchyby the French Convention goes into effect, and theFrench First Republicis established, effective the following day.
- 22 September –French Revolution:TheEraof the historicalFrench Republican Calendarbegins.
November
[edit]- 6 November –War of the First Coalition:Battle of Jemappes– Austrian armies under the command ofDuke Albert of Saxe-Teschenare defeated in Belgium (at this time part of the Austrian Netherlands) by the French Army led by GeneralCharles François Dumouriez.[5]
- 19 November – TheNational Conventionpasses a resolution pledging French support for the overthrow of the governments of other nations.[6]
December
[edit]- 26 December – The trial ofLouis XVI of Francebegins.
Ongoing
[edit]Full date unknown
[edit]- Claude Chappesuccessfully demonstrates the firstsemaphore line,between Paris and Lille.
- Barthélemy Catherine Joubert,future general, becomes sub-lieutenant.
Births
[edit]- 21 May –Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis,engineer, scientist
- 1 August –Pierre Solomon Ségalas d'Etchépare,physician[7]
- 9 August –Charles-François Lebœuf,sculptor
- 25 August –Jean-Baptiste Duvergier,lawyer
- 28 November –Victor Cousin,philosopher
Deaths
[edit]- 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
- 23 August –Arnaud II de La Porte,statesman (executed)
- 25 August –Jacques Cazotte,writer (executed)
- 3 September –Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe,princess, courtier toMarie Antoinette(killed inSeptember Massacres)
- 8 September –Charles d'Abancour,statesman (killed in September Massacres)
- 22 October –Guillaume Le Gentil,astronomer
- 7 December –Marie Jeanne Riccoboni,novelist
- Full date unknown –Nicholas Adam,grammarian
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Louis XVI | Biography, Reign, Execution, & Facts | Britannica".www.britannica.com.Retrieved25 June2022.
- ^abBentham, Jeremy (2002).Rights, Representation, and Reform: Nonsense Upon Stilts and Other Writings on the French Revolution.Oxford University Press. p. 291.ISBN978-0-19-924863-6.
- ^Parker, Geoffrey (2008).The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare.New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 195.ISBN978-0-521-73806-4.Retrieved2012-01-22.
- ^Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).The Chronology of British History.London: Century Ltd. pp. 232–233.ISBN978-0-7126-5616-0.
- ^Evans, Eric J. (2014).The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783–1870.Routledge.
- ^Bisset, Robert (1822).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.Vol. 2. Edward Parker. p. 855.
- ^Ségal, Alain (2008). "Outline of the work of Pierre Salomon Ségalas of Etchépare (1792-1875)".Histoire des sciences médicales.42(2).France:199–204.ISSN0440-8888.PMID19230322.