March 29 » King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
April 25 » Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
May 11 » Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into the Columbia River.
June 4 » Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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.
December 11 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
Christening day April 29, 1792
The temperature on April 29, 1792 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
April 25 » Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
May 21 » A lava dome collapses on Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimbara on the Japanese island of Kyūshū, creating a deadly tsunami that kills nearly 15,000 people.
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.
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 29 » Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
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