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Events

January 25 - The London Corresponding Society is founded.
February 20 - The Postal Service Act[?], establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
April 2 - The Coinage Act[?] is passed establishing the United States Mint[?].
April 5 - United States President George Washington vetos a bill designed to apportion representatives among U.S. states. This is the first time the presidential veto has been used in the United States.
April 25 - Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
May 11 - Captain Robert Gray[?] becomes the first white man to discover the Columbia River.
May 17 - Buttonwood Agreement[?] is signed, beginnings of New York Stock Exchange.
June 1 - Kentucky is admitted as the 15th U.S. state.

French revolution comes to an end, monarchy is abolished and French Republic is declared on sept 22; Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle composes La Marseillaise aka "Marche pour les armées du Rhin".
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, last emperor, takes office.
Treaty of Jassy[?] ends Russian war with Ottoman Empire over Crimea.
Swedish king Gustav III is assassinated at a masked ball at the Stockholm opera house, is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
King John VI takes over from his insane mother in Portugal.
George Washington is re-elected as president of the United States.
Tipu Sultan invades Kerala in India, but is repulsed.
George Vancouver explores Puget Sound, becomes first European to see Mount Rainier.
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 invents gas lighting[?].
George Anschutz[?] constructs 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.
State Street Corporation is founded.

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

1792 in literature:
- Letters from an American Farmer[?] - Jean de Crevecoeur

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