# 1792 in France

Events from the year 1792 in France.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Louis XVI (until 21 September; monarchy abolished)
* The Legislative Assembly (until 21 September)
* The National Convention (from 21 September)

## 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 – French Revolution: Insurrection of 10 August 1792 – The Tuileries Palace is stormed and Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
* 20 August – War of the First Coalition: Battle of Verdun – Prussia defeats France, opening a route to Paris.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 19 November – The National Convention passes a resolution pledging French support for the overthrow of the governments of other nations.

### December

* 26 December – The trial of Louis XVI of France 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
* 9 August – Charles-François Lebœuf, sculptor
* 25 August – Jean-Baptiste Duvergier, lawyer
* 28 November – Victor Cousin, philosopher

## Deaths

* 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