1792 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1792 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
- Monarch – George III
- Prime Minister – William Pitt the Younger (Tory)[1]
- Foreign Secretary – Lord Grenville
Events
- January – the investment management business which will become the Charles Stanley Group in London is established as a banking partnership in Sheffield.[2]
- 25 January – the radical London Corresponding Society is established.[3]
- 7 March – a settlement is formed in Sierra Leone in West Africa as a home for freed slaves.[3]
- 23 March – Joseph Haydn premieres his Symphony No. 94 (the "Surprise"), the second of his twelve London symphonies, at the Hanover Square Rooms.
- 4 June – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain.
- 21 June – Iolo Morganwg holds the first Gorsedd ceremony, at Primrose Hill in London.
- 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.
- 14 September – radical Thomas Paine flees to France after being indicted for treason.[4]
- 29 September – first St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, London (Roman Catholic) consecrated as a chapel.
- 2 October – Baptist Missionary Society is founded in Kettering.
- 18 December – the trial of Thomas Paine in absentia for treason begins.[5] He is outlawed.[4]
Undated
- Over 300 petitions are presented to Parliament against the slave trade. The House of Commons pledges to abolish the trade "gradually".[6]
- "Year of the Sheep" in the Scottish Highlands: mass emigration of crofters following Clearances for grazing.
- Fox's Libel Act restores to juries the right to determine what constitutes libel;[7] it remains in force until abolition of criminal libel in 2010.
- Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna establish the newsagent's business in Little Grosvenor Street, London, which will become W H Smith.[8]
Publications
- Thomas Holcroft's Anna St. Ives, the first British Jacobin novel.
- Thomas Paine's second edition of Rights of Man, urging the overthrow of the British monarchy.[7]
- Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, one of the earliest works of feminist literature.[7]
Births
- 10 February – Frederick Marryat, author (died 1848)
- 19 February – Roderick Murchison, geologist (died 1871)
- 7 March – John Herschel, mathematician and astronomer (died 1871)
- 12 April – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (died 1840)
- 25 April – John Keble, churchman and poet (died 1866)
- 17 May – Anne Isabella Milbanke, wife of George 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 Disraeli, wife of Benjamin Disraeli (died 1872)
Deaths
- 27 January – George Horne, bishop (born 1730)
- 8 February – Hannah Snell, soldier (born 1723)
- 23 February – Sir Joshua Reynolds, painter (born 1723)
- 3 March – Robert Adam, architect (born 1728)
- 10 March – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister (born 1713)[9]
- 3 April – George Pocock, admiral (born 1706)
- 30 April – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, statesman, First Lord of the Admiralty and rake (born 1718)
- 24 May – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, naval officer (born 1719)
- 4 June – John Burgoyne, general (born 1723)
- 18 July – John Paul Jones, sailor and the United States's first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolution (born 1747)
- 3 August – Richard Arkwright, inventor (born 1732)
- 5 August – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister (born 1732)[10]
- 28 October – John Smeaton, civil engineer (born 1724)
See also
References
- ^ "History of William Pitt 'The Younger' - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
- ^ "About Us". Charles Stanley. 14 August 2021.
- ^ a b "BBC History British History Timeline". Archived from the original on 9 September 2007. Retrieved 4 September 2007.
- ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 232–233. ISBN 978-0-7126-5616-0.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 978-0-14-102715-9.
- ^ "Scotland and the Slave Trade: 2007 Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, Scottish Executive website". Archived from the original on 1 April 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2007.
- ^ a b c Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1792". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
- ^ "Our Company: History 1792–1900". W H Smith PLC. 2008. Archived from the original on 27 June 2009. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "History of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
- ^ "History of Lord Frederick North - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2023.