# 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)
* 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.
* 25 January – the radical London Corresponding Society is established.
* 7 March – a settlement is formed in Sierra Leone in West Africa as a home for freed slaves.
* 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.
* 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. He is outlawed.

### Undated

* Over 300 petitions are presented to Parliament against the slave trade. The House of Commons pledges to abolish the trade "gradually".
* "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; 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.

## 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.
* Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, one of the earliest works of feminist literature.

## 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)
* 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)
* 4 August – John Burgoyne, army officer, playwright and politician (born 1722)
* 5 August – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister (born 1732)
* 28 October – John Smeaton, civil engineer (born 1724)