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| ** [[Highwayman]] [[Nicolas Jacques Pelletier|Nicolas Pelletier]] becomes the first person executed by [[guillotine]] in France. | ** [[Highwayman]] [[Nicolas Jacques Pelletier|Nicolas Pelletier]] becomes the first person executed by [[guillotine]] in France. | ||
| ** ''[[La Marseillaise]]'', the [[France|French]] [[national anthem]], is composed by [[Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle]]. | ** ''[[La Marseillaise]]'', the [[France|French]] [[national anthem]], is composed by [[Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle]]. | ||
| - | * [[May 8]] – The [[Revenue]] Commission is established.{{Where|date=July 2011}} | ||
| - | * [[May 11]] – [[Robert Gray's Columbia River expedition]]: Captain [[Robert Gray (sea captain)|Robert Gray]] on the ''[[Columbia Rediviva]]'' becomes the first white man to enter the [[Columbia River]]. | ||
| - | * [[May 17]] – The [[Buttonwood Agreement]] is signed, beginning the [[New York Stock Exchange]]. | ||
| - | * [[May 18]] – [[War in defence of the constitution]]: [[Russia]] invades [[Poland]]. | ||
| - | * [[May 21]] – An old lava dome collapses in [[Kyūshū]], [[Japan]] when [[Mount Unzen]] [[volcano]] erupts; the resulting [[avalanche]] and [[tsunami]] kills about 14,300 people. | ||
| - | * [[June 1]] – [[Kentucky]] becomes the 15th state of [[The United States of America]]. | ||
| - | * [[June 4]] – Captain [[George Vancouver]] claims [[Puget Sound]] for [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]]. | ||
| - | * [[June 13]] | ||
| - | ** Vancouver becomes the first European to enter [[Burrard Inlet]]. | ||
| - | ** [[Prussia]] declares war against [[France]]. | ||
| - | [[File:Valmy Battle painting.jpg|thumb|200px|right| [[September 20]]: [[Battle of Valmy]].]] | ||
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| - | === July–September === | ||
| - | * [[July 18]] – [[Polish–Russian War of 1792|Polish–Russian War]]: At the [[Battle of Dubienka]], soldiers of the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]] led by [[Tadeusz Kościuszko]] resist an attack from [[Imperial Russian Army]] forces five times their size. | ||
| * [[August 10]] – [[French Revolution]]: The [[Tuileries Palace]] is stormed, and [[Louis XVI of France]] is arrested and taken into custody. | * [[August 10]] – [[French Revolution]]: The [[Tuileries Palace]] is stormed, and [[Louis XVI of France]] is arrested and taken into custody. | ||
| * September – [[Macartney Embassy]]: [[George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney]], sails from [[Portsmouth]] in [[HMS Lion (1777)|HMS ''Lion'']] as the first official envoy from the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] to [[China]]. | * September – [[Macartney Embassy]]: [[George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney]], sails from [[Portsmouth]] in [[HMS Lion (1777)|HMS ''Lion'']] as the first official envoy from the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] to [[China]]. | ||
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Art and culture
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Goya becomes deaf
- April 25
- Highwayman Nicolas Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine in France.
- La Marseillaise, the French national anthem, is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
- August 10 – French Revolution: The Tuileries Palace is stormed, and Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
- September – Macartney Embassy: George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, sails from Portsmouth in HMS Lion as the first official envoy from the Kingdom of Great Britain to China.
- September 2 – During what becomes known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops and more than 200 priests.
- September 11 – Six men steal some of the former French Crown Jewels from a warehouse where the revolutionary government had stored them.
- September 14 – Thomas Paine flees from England to France after being indicted for treason. He is tried in absentia during December and outlawed.<ref name=CBH>Template:Cite book</ref>
- September 20 – Battle of Valmy: The French revolutionary army defeats Prussians under the Duke of Brunswick after a 7-hour artillery duel.
- September 21 – Proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy by the French Convention and establishment of the French First Republic with effect from the following day.
- September 22 – The Era of the historical French Republican Calendar begins.
October–December
- October 12 – The first Columbus Day celebration in the United States is held in New York City, 300 years after his arrival in the New World.
- October 13 – Foundation of Washington, D.C.: The cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion, known as the White House after 1818, is laid.
- October 29 – Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British Admiral Lord Hood by Lt. William Broughton of the Vancouver Expedition, who spots the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
- December 3 – George Washington is re-elected President of the United States.
- December 26 – The trial of Louis XVI of France begins.
[[File:White-House.jpg|thumb|200px|right| October 13: Washington, D.C. founded.]]
Date unknown
- The Baptist Missionary Society is founded in Kettering, England.
- Dominique-Jean Larrey, chief surgeon of the Grand Armee of France, creates the first ambulance wagons specifically designed as ambulances.
- Tipu Sultan invades Kerala in India, but is repulsed.
- Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, an astronomer, publishes The Tables of the Sun, an essential early work for navigation.
- Claude Chappe successfully demonstrates the first semaphore line, between Paris and Lille.
- William Murdoch begins experimenting with gas lighting.
- George Anschutz constructs the first blast furnace in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- Thomas Holcroft produces the play Road to Ruin in London.
- Barthelemy Catherine Joubert, later general, becomes sub-lieutenant.
- Johann Georg Albrechtberger becomes Kapellmeister in Vienna.
- The State Street Corporation is founded.
- Shiloh Meeting House, predecessor of Shiloh United Methodist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, is founded.
- Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is published.
[[File:Mount Hood reflected in Mirror Lake, Oregon.jpg|thumb|200px|right| October 29: Mount Hood is named.]]
- The first written examinations in Europe are held at Cambridge University, England.
- Denmark is the first country in the world to outlaw slavery.
Births
- February 10 – Captain Frederick Marryat, British author (d. 1848)
- February 29 – Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer (d. 1868)
- March 7 – John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
- May 17 – Anne Isabella Milbanke, English wife of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (d. 1860)
- August 4 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, British poet (d. 1822)
- November 28 – Victor Cousin, French philosopher (d. 1867)
Deaths
January–June
- February 15 – John Witherspoon
- February 23 – Sir Joshua Reynolds, British painter (b. 1723)
- March 1 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
- March 3 – Robert Adam, British architect (b. 1728)
- March 10 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1713)
- March 29 – King Gustav III of Sweden (assassinated) (b. 1746)
- April 3 – George Pocock, British admiral (b. 1706)
- April 4 – James Sykes, American politician (b. 1725)
- April 14 – Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (b. 1720)
- April 23 – Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer (b. 1741)
- April 30 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (b. 1718)
- May 10 – John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress
- May 12 – Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710)
- May 24 – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, British naval officer (b. 1718)
- June 4 – John Burgoyne, British general (b. 1723)
July–December
- July 3 – Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (b. 1721)
- July 18 – John Paul Jones, American naval captain (b. 1747)
- July 29 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
- August 5 – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1732)
- August 25 – Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
- September 3 – Princesse de Lamballe, French princess, friend of Marie Antoinette (murdered during the French Revolution) (b. 1749)
- September 8 – Charles d'Abancourt, French statesman (b. 1758)
- September 18 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (b. 1704)
- September 25 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
- September 29 – George Browne, Russian-Irish field-marshal (b. 1698)
- October 7 – George Mason, American patriot (b. 1725)
- October 14 – Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (b. 1714)
- October 22 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
- October 28
- Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
- John Smeaton, English civil engineer (b. 1724)
- December 15 – Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer (b. 1756)
- date unknown – Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab, Arabic preacher (b. 1703)
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