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1792 English cricket season

Events from the year 1792 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger, Tory

Events

• 25 January - The radical London Corresponding Society established.^[1]
• 7 March - a settlement is formed in Sierra Leone in West Africa as a home for freed slaves.^[1]
• 4 June - Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain.
• 14 September - Thomas Paine flees to France after being indicted for treason. He is subsequently tried in absentia, and outlawed.^[2]
• 2 October - Baptist Missionary Society is founded in Kettering.
• 18 December - The trial of Thomas Paine begins.^[3]

Undated

• Over 300 petitions are presented to Parliament against the slave trade. The House of Commons pledges to "gradually" abolish the trade.^[4]
• The Libel Act gives the right to juries determine what constitutes libel.^[5]

Publications

• Thomas Paine's second edition of Rights of Man, urging the overthrow of the British monarchy.^[5]
• Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, one of the earliest works of feminist literature.^[5]

Births

• 10 February - Captain Frederick Marryat, author (died 1848)
• 19 February - Roderick Murchison, geologist (died 1871)
• 7 March - John Herschel, mathematician and astronomer (died 1871)
• 25 April - John Keble, 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 Evans, wife of Benjamin Disraeli (died 1872)

Deaths

• 27 January - George Horne, bishop (born 1730)
• 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)
  • John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, statesman (born 1718)
• 30 April - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, statesman (born 1718)
• 24 May - George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, naval officer (born 1719)
• 4 June - John Burgoyne, general (born 1723)
• 3 August - Richard Arkwright, inventor (born 1732)
• 5 August - Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister (born 1732)
• 28 October - John Smeaton, civil engineer (born 1724)

References

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