1792

Sarah Grimke (Abolitionist, writer, women’s rights advocate)

Sir John Herschel (Mathematician, Astronomer)

The cornerstone of the executive mansion, later to be known as the White House, was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.

The French Republic was proclaimed.

The French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy.

French revolutionaries imprisoned the royal family.

Mobs in Paris attacked the palace of Louis XVI.

Kentucky became the 15th state of the union.

The New York Stock Exchange was founded by brokers meeting under a tree on what is now Wall Street.

France declared war on Austria, marking the start of the French Revolutionary Wars.

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