February 20 » The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
May 11 » Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into the Columbia River.
July 25 » The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.
August 10 » French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
August 16 » Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
September 21 » French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.
Day of death August 4, 1792
The temperature on August 4, 1792 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
January 9 » Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed.
March 16 » King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
April 25 » Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
June 1 » Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
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 20 » French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.
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