1792 in France

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Events from the year 1792 in France .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XVI (until 21 September; monarchy abolished) ^[1]
• The Legislative Assembly (until 21 September) ^[2]
• The National Convention (from 21 September) ^[2]

Events

March

• 25 March – The Legislative Assembly agrees that the guillotine should be used for judicial executions.

April

• 20 April – The Legislative Assembly declares war against Austria, starting the French Revolutionary Wars and War of the First Coalition.
• 25 April
  • Highwayman Nicolas Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine in France, in what becomes the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville in Paris.
  • La Marseillaise , the French national anthem, is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg.

June

• 13 June – Prussia declares war against France.
• 20 June – Demonstration of 20 June 1792.

August

10 August: Storming of the Tuileries
(Musée de la Révolution française)

• 10 August – French Revolution: Insurrection of 10 August 1792 – The Tuileries Palace is stormed and Louis XVI is arrested and taken into custody.
• 20 August – War of the First Coalition: Battle of Verdun – Prussia defeats France, opening a route to Paris. ^[3]
• 21 August – Royalist Louis Collenot d'Angremont becomes the first person executed by guillotine for political reasons, in the Place du Carrousel in Paris.

September

• 2–19 September – 1792 French National Convention election.
• 2–7 September – French Revolution: September Massacres – Rampaging mobs in Paris slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops and more than 200 priests, together with at least 1,000 criminals.
• 9 September – 9 September massacres at Versailles.
• 11 September – Six men steal some of the former French Crown Jewels from a warehouse, where the revolutionary government has stored them.
• 14 September – Radical antimonarchist Thomas Paine flees from England to France, after being indicted for treason. He is tried in absentia during December and outlawed. ^[4]
• 20 September – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Valmy – The French revolutionary army defeats the Prussians under the Duke of Brunswick after a 7-hour artillery duel.

20 September: Battle of Valmy

• 21 September – French Revolution: A Proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy by the French Convention goes into effect, and the French First Republic is established, effective the following day.
• 22 September – French Revolution: The Era of the historical French Republican Calendar begins.

November

• 6 November – War of the First Coalition: Battle of Jemappes – Austrian armies under the command of Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen are defeated in Belgium (at this time part of the Austrian Netherlands) by the French Army led by General Charles François Dumouriez. ^[5]
• 19 November – The National Convention passes a resolution pledging French support for the overthrow of the governments of other nations. ^[6]

December

• 26 December – The trial of Louis XVI begins.

Ongoing

• French Revolution
• French Revolutionary Wars
• War of the First Coalition

Full date unknown

• Claude Chappe successfully demonstrates the first semaphore line, between Paris and Lille.
• Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, future general, becomes sub-lieutenant.

Births

• 21 May – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, engineer, scientist
• 1 August – Pierre Solomon Ségalas d'Etchépare, physician ^[7]
• 9 August – Charles-François Lebœuf, sculptor
• 25 August – Jean-Baptiste Duvergier, lawyer
• 28 November – Victor Cousin, philosopher

Deaths

Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe

• 1 March – Jean Godin des Odonais, cartographer and naturalist
• 12 May – Charles Simon Favart, dramatist
• 29 July – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France
• 21 August – Louis Collenot d'Angremont, counter-revolutionary (guillotined)
• 23 August – Arnaud II de La Porte, statesman (executed)
• 25 August – Jacques Cazotte, writer (executed)
• 3 September
  • Karl Josef von Bachmann, Swiss Guards commander (guillotined)
  • Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, princess, courtier to Marie Antoinette (killed in September Massacres)
• 9 September
  • Louis Hercule Timoléon de Cossé, 8th Duke of Brissac, military commander (killed in September Massacres)
  • Claude Antoine de Valdec de Lessart, politician
  • Charles d'Abancourt, minister (killed in September Massacres)
• 22 October – Guillaume Le Gentil, astronomer
• 7 December – Marie Jeanne Riccoboni, novelist
• Full date unknown – Nicholas Adam, grammarian

References

1. "Louis XVI | Biography, Reign, Execution, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
2. Bentham, Jeremy (2002). Rights, Representation, and Reform: Nonsense Upon Stilts and Other Writings on the French Revolution. Oxford University Press. p. 291. ISBN   978-0-19-924863-6.
3. Parker, Geoffrey (2008). The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 195. ISBN   978-0-521-73806-4 . Retrieved 2012-01-22.
4. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 232–233. ISBN   978-0-7126-5616-0.
5. Evans, Eric J. (2014). The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783–1870. Routledge.
6. Bisset, Robert (1822). The Reign of George III: To which is Prefixed a View of the Progressive Improvements of England in Property and Strength to the Accession of His Majesty. Vol. 2. Edward Parker. p. 855.
7. Ségal, Alain (2008). "Outline of the work of Pierre Salomon Ségalas of Etchépare (1792-1875)". Histoire des sciences médicales . 42 (2). France: 199–204. ISSN   0440-8888. PMID   19230322.