1792 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1792 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger, Tory

Events

* 25 January - The radical London 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 in Sierra Leone in West Africa as a home for freed slaves.
* 4 June - Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain.
* 14 September - Thomas Paine flees to France after being indicted for treason. He is subsequently tried "in absentia", and outlawed.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 in Kettering.
* 18 December - The trial of Thomas 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

* 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

* 10 February - Captain Frederick 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 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 Evans, wife of Benjamin Disraeli (died 1872)

Deaths

* 27 January - George Horne, bishop (born 1730)
* 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)
* 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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