Events from the year 1792 in France.
Incumbents
Events
March
- 25 March â The Legislative Assembly agrees that the guillotine should be used for judicial executions.
April
June
August
September
November
December
- 26 December â The trial of Louis XVI begins.
Ongoing
Full date unknown
Births
Deaths
- 1 March â Jean Godin des Odonais, cartographer and naturalist
- 12 May â Charles Simon Favart, dramatist
- 29 July â René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France
- 21 August â Louis Collenot d'Angremont, counter-revolutionary (guillotined)
- 23 August â Arnaud II de La Porte, statesman (executed)
- 25 August â 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 â Guillaume Le Gentil, astronomer
- 7 December â Marie Jeanne Riccoboni, novelist
- Full date unknown â Nicholas Adam, grammarian
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