Events from the year 1792 in France.
Incumbents Monarch: Louis XVI (until 21 September; monarchy abolished) The Legislative Assembly (until 21 September) 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
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. 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. 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.
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. 19 November – The National Convention passes a resolution pledging French support for the overthrow of the governments of other nations.
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, physician 9 August – Charles-François Lebœuf, sculptor 25 August – Jean-Baptiste Duvergier, lawyer 28 November – Victor Cousin, philosopher
Deaths
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
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