The temperature on October 23, 1791 was about 8.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
March 2 » Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
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.
September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
September 14 » The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.
November 9 » Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
Day of death December 16, 1792
The temperature on December 16, 1792 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
March 16 » King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
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.
June 4 » Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
August 13 » King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
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 20 » French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.
Day of burial December 20, 1792
The temperature on December 20, 1792 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-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.
June 4 » Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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 21 » French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.
September 22 » Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
December 11 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
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