March 2 » Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
July 14 » The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
July 17 » Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
August 30 » HMSPandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
September 27 » The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France.
November 9 » Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
Christening day January 29, 1792
The temperature on January 29, 1792 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
March 16 » King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
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 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.
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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