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Events from the year 1792 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: George Washington (no political party-Virginia)
- Vice President: John Adams (F-Massachusetts)
- Chief Justice: John Jay (New York)
- Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.(Pro-Admin.-Connecticut)
- Congress: 2nd
Events
January–March
- February 20 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
- March 20 – A new capital of State Senator and surveyor William Christmas submits his design for the city. A few months later the capital is officially named Raleigh in honor of Sir Walter Raleigh.
April–June
- April 2 – The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
- April 5 – United States President George Washington vetoes a bill designed to apportion representatives among U.S. states. This is the first time the presidential veto is used in the United States.
- May 10 – Union Bank is founded in Boston. In 1925 it merges with State Street Trust Company, now known as the State Street Corporation[1]
- May 11 – Robert Gray's Columbia River expedition: Captain Robert Gray becomes the first explorer to enter the Columbia River.
- May 17 – The Buttonwood Agreement is signed, beginning the New York Stock Exchange.
- June 1 – The United States of America (see History of Kentucky).
- June 4 – Isaac Shelby is inaugurated as the first governor of Kentucky.
- June 9 – Denmark recognizes the independence of the United States.[2]
October–December
- October 12 – The first Columbus Day celebration in the United States is held in New York City, 300 years after his arrival in the New World.
- October 13 – Foundation of Washington, D.C.: The cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion, known as the White House after 1818, is laid.
- October 29 – Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after British Admiral Lord Hood by Lt. William Broughton of the Vancouver Expedition, who spots the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
- December 3 – George Washington is re-elected President of the United States.
Undated
- George Anschutz constructs the first Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- Shiloh Meeting House, predecessor of Shiloh United Methodist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, is founded.
- Pearson & Sons bakery, earliest predecessor of Nabisco, opens in Massachusetts.
Ongoing
- Northwest Indian War (1785–1795)
Births
- February 15 – Second Lady of the U.S. as wife of John C. Calhoun (died 1866)
- March 4
- Isaac Lea, conchologist, geologist, and publisher (died 1886)
- Samuel Slocum, inventor (died 1861)
- April 4 – Thaddeus Stevens, politician (died 1868)
- May 10 – Willie Person Mangum, politician (died 1861)
- June 13 – William Austin Burt, inventor ("Father of the typewriter") (died 1858)
- July 10 – vice president of the United States from 1845 to 1849 (died 1864)
- September 1 – Chester Harding, portrait painter (died 1866)
- September 7 – David J. Baker, U.S. Senator from Illinois in 1830 (died 1869)
- September 19 – William Backhouse Astor, Sr., business tycoon (died 1875)
- September 22 – John James Appleton, diplomat, born in France (died 1864)
- November 10 – Samuel Nelson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1873)
- November 15 – Isaac Toucey, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1851 to 1857 (died 1869)
- November 26 – Sarah Grimké, abolitionist and suffragist (died 1873)
- December 5 – James Guthrie, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1865 to 1868 (died 1869)
- Date unknown – Robert H. Adams, U.S. Senator from Mississippi in 1830 (died 1830)
Deaths
- February 15 – John Witherspoon, signatory of the Declaration of Independence (born 1723)
- April 4 – James Sykes, delegate to the Continental Congress (born 1725)
- May 10 – John Stevens, New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress (born c.1715)
- July 18 – John Paul Jones, sailor and the U.S.'s first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolution (born 1747 in Great Britain)
- October 7 – George Mason, patriot, statesman and delegate (born 1725)
- December 8 – Henry Laurens, 5th president of the Continental Congress, signatory of the Articles of Confederation, father of John Laurens (born 1724)
See also
References
- ^ The Day, June 17, 1917.
- ^ "Denmark - Countries - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
Further reading
- Edward Thornton. The United States through English Spectacles in 1792–1794. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 9, No. 2 (July, 1885), pp. 214–222.
- Narrative of John Heckewelder's Journey to the Wabash in 1792. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 12, No. 2 (July, 1888), pp. 165–184.
- Lists of Foreigners Who Arrived at Philadelphia, 1791–1792. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 24, No. 2 (1900), pp. 187–194.
- Max Farrand. The First Hayburn Case, 1792. The American Historical Review, Vol. 13, No. 2 (January, 1908), pp. 281–285.
- F. W. Howay, T. C. Elliott. Voyages of the "Jenny" to Oregon, 1792–94. Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 3 (September, 1929), pp. 197–206.
- J. Neilson Barry. Broughton, up Columbia River, 1792. Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 4 (December, 1931), pp. 301–312.
- Lawrence Kinnaird. The Significance of William Augustus Bowles' Seizure of Panton's Apalachee Store in 1792. The Florida Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 3 (January, 1931), pp. 156–192.
- J. Neilson Barry. Columbia River Exploration, 1792. Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 1 (March, 1932), pp. 31–42.
- Harold Kirker. The New Theater, Philadelphia, 1791–1792. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 22, No. 1 (March, 1963), pp. 36–37.
- Loren K. Ruff. Joseph Harper and Boston's Board Alley Theatre, 1792–1793. Educational Theatre Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1 (March, 1974), pp. 45–52.
- James P. Whittenburg. "The Common Farmer (Number 2)": Herman Husband's Plan for Peace between the United States and the Indians, 1792. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 34, No. 4 (October, 1977), pp. 647–650.
- R. David Edmunds. "Nothing Has Been Effected": The Vincennes Treaty of 1792. Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 74, No. 1 (March 1978), pp. 23–35.
- Helen Hornbeck Tanner. The Glaize in 1792: A Composite Indian Community. Ethnohistory, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Winter, 1978), pp. 15–39.
- James P. Walsh. "Mechanics and Citizens": The Connecticut Artisan Protest of 1792. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 42, No. 1 (January, 1985), pp. 66–89.
- Michael L. Kennedy. A French Jacobin Club in Charleston, South Carolina, 1792–1795. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 91, No. 1 (January, 1990), pp. 4–22.
- Don Alexander Hawkins. The Landscape of the Federal City: A 1792 Walking Tour. Washington History, Vol. 3, No. 1, Special Bicentennial Issue: Washington D.C., 1791–1991 (Spring/Summer, 1991), pp. 10–33.
- David J. Cowen. The First Bank of the United States and the Securities Market Crash of 1792. The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 60, No. 4 (December, 2000), pp. 1041–1060.
- Jim Mockford. Before Lewis and Clark, Lt. Broughton's River of Names: The Columbia River Exploration of 1792. Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 106, No. 4 (Winter, 2005), pp. 542–567.
External links
- Media related to 1792 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons