January 9 » Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed.
April 5 » United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
April 28 » France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
June 1 » Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
August 13 » King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
December 11 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
Day of death October 15, 1792
The temperature on October 15, 1792 was about 11.0 °C. There was 88 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
April 20 » France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
May 11 » Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into the Columbia River.
September 2 » During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
September 11 » The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.
October 3 » A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.
October 13 » In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
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