- 1792 in Great Britain
Events from the year
1792 in theKingdom of Great Britain .Incumbents
*Monarch -
George III of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -William Pitt the Younger ,Tory Events
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25 January - The radicalLondon Corresponding Society established.cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml|title=BBC History British History Timeline|accessdate=2007-09-04]
*7 March - a settlement is formed inSierra Leone inWest Africa as a home for freed slaves.
*4 June - CaptainGeorge Vancouver claimsPuget Sound for Britain.
*14 September -Thomas Paine flees toFrance after being indicted for treason. He is subsequently tried "in absentia ", andoutlaw ed.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 232-233|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
*2 October -Baptist Missionary Society is founded inKettering .
*18 December - The trial ofThomas Paine begins.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]Undated
* Over 300 petitions are presented to Parliament against the
slave trade . The House of Commons pledges to "gradually" abolish the trade. [cite web|url=http://www.scottishexecutive.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/23121622/8|title=Scotland and the Slave Trade: 2007 Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, Scottish Executive website|accessdate=2007-09-01]
* The Libel Act gives the right to juries determine what constitutes libel.Publications
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Thomas Paine 's second edition of "Rights of Man ", urging the overthrow of the British monarchy."1792." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006. 4 Jun, 2007]
*Mary Wollstonecraft 's "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ", one of the earliest works of feminist literature.Births
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10 February - CaptainFrederick Marryat , author (died 1848)
*19 February -Roderick Murchison , geologist (died 1871)
*7 March -John Herschel , mathematician and astronomer (died 1871)
*25 April -John Keble , poet (died 1866)
*17 May - Anne Isabella Milbanke, wife ofGeorge Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (died 1860)
*16 June - John Linnell, painter (died 1882)
*7 July - William Henry Smith, businessman (died 1865)
*4 August -Percy Bysshe Shelley , poet (died 1822)
*13 August -Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen , queen of William IV (died 1849)
*18 August -John Russell, 1st Earl Russell , Prime Minister (died 1878)
*11 November -Mary Anne Evans , wife ofBenjamin Disraeli (died 1872)Deaths
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27 January -George Horne , bishop (born 1730)
*23 February - SirJoshua Reynolds , painter (born 1723)
*3 March -Robert Adam , architect (born 1728)
*10 March -John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute , Prime Minister (born 1713)
*3 April
**George Pocock , admiral (born 1706)
**John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich , statesman (born 1718)
*30 April -John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich , statesman (born 1718)
*24 May -George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney , naval officer (born 1719)
*4 June -John Burgoyne , general (born 1723)
*3 August -Richard Arkwright , inventor (born 1732)
*5 August -Frederick North, Lord North , Prime Minister (born 1732)
*28 October -John Smeaton , civil engineer (born 1724)References
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