Editing 1792

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[[File:Tuileries Henri Motte.jpg|250px|thumb|[[August 10]]: French Revolution leaders send troops to storm the Tuilleries Palace and capture King Louis XVI.]]
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[[File:Unzen pyroclastic and lahar deposits.jpg|thumb|right| [[May 21]]: [[Mount Unzen]] erupts.]]
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== Events ==

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 9]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Jassy]] ends the [[Russian Empire]]'s war with the [[Ottoman Empire]] over [[Crimea]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1792 |title=Historical Events for Year 1792 &#124; OnThisDay.com |website=Historyorb.com |year=1792 |access-date=2016-07-14}}</ref>
* [[January 25]] &ndash; The [[London Corresponding Society]] is founded.
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Thomas Holcroft]] produces the comedy ''[[The Road to Ruin (play)|The Road to Ruin]]'' in London.
* [[February 20]]
** The [[Postal Service Act]], establishing the [[United States Postal Service|United States Post Office Department]], is signed by President [[George Washington]].<ref name="Harper1792">''Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909'', ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p169</ref>
** [[Parliament House, Dublin]] catches fire during a legislative session. "Although in imminent danger of the roof falling in," it is noted later, "the House did not adjourn until a proper motion had been put and carried in the affirmative."<ref name=Fires>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) pp62.</ref>
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor]], the last emperor, takes office.
* [[March 7]] &ndash; A settlement is formed in [[Sierra Leone]] in West Africa as a home for freed slaves.<ref name="BBC History timeline">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml|title=BBC History British History Timeline|access-date=2007-09-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070909012414/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml|archive-date=2007-09-09}}</ref>
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Assassination of Gustav III]]: King [[Gustav III of Sweden]] is shot in the back by [[Jacob Johan Anckarström]], at a midnight [[Masquerade ball|masquerade]] at the Royal Opera in Stockholm; he lives until [[March 29]], and is then succeeded by his 14-year-old son, [[Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden|Gustav IV Adolf]].
* [[March 20]] &ndash; A new capital of [[North Carolina]], and seat of the newly formed [[Wake County, North Carolina|Wake County]], is established after North Carolina [[State senator]] and surveyor William Christmas submits his design for the city.  A few months later, the capital is officially named [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]], in honor of Sir [[Walter Raleigh]].
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Haitian Revolution]]: [[Battle of Croix-des-Bouquets]] – Black slave insurgents gain a victory in the first major battle of the revolution.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Madiou|first=Thomas|author-link=Thomas Madiou|title=Histoire d'Haïti, Tome I|year=1847|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vN4CAAAAYAAJ&q=Histoire+d'Haiti,+Volume+1+Par+Thomas+Madiou&pg=PA363|language=French|page=102}}</ref>
* [[March 25]] &ndash; The [[National Legislative Assembly (France)]] agrees that the [[guillotine]] should be used for judicial executions.

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 2]] &ndash; The [[Coinage Act of 1792|Coinage Act]] is passed, establishing the [[United States Mint]].<ref name="Harper1792"/>
* [[April 5]] &ndash; United States President [[George Washington]] [[veto]]es a bill designed to apportion representatives among [[U.S. state]]s. This is the first time the presidential veto is used in the United States.
* [[April 20]] &ndash; France declares war against Austria, beginning the [[French Revolutionary Wars]] and the [[War of the First Coalition]].
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Tiradentes]], a leading figure in the [[Inconfidência Mineira]] conspiracy, is executed in [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Viceroyalty of Brazil|Brazil]].
* [[April 25]]
** [[Highwayman]] [[Nicolas Jacques Pelletier|Nicolas Pelletier]] becomes the first person executed by [[guillotine]] in France.
** ''[[La Marseillaise]]'', the French [[national anthem]], is composed by [[Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle]].
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Robert Gray's Columbia River expedition]]: Captain [[Robert Gray (sea captain)|Robert Gray]], on the ''[[Columbia Rediviva]]'', becomes the first white man to discover the mouth of the [[Columbia River]].<ref name="Harper1792"/>
* [[May 17]] &ndash; The [[Buttonwood Agreement]] is signed, beginning the [[New York Stock Exchange]].
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[War in Defence of the Constitution]]: Russia invades Poland.
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami]]: An old lava dome collapses in [[Kyūshū]], Japan, due to activity of [[Mount Unzen]] volcano; the resulting [[avalanche]] and [[tsunami]] kill about 14,300 people.
* [[May 29]] &ndash; The [[Great Sejm]] of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] is disbanded following the [[Polish–Russian War of 1792|Russian invasion of Poland]].
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Kentucky]] becomes the 15th state of the United States of America.<ref name="Harper1792"/>
* [[June 4]] &ndash; Captain [[George Vancouver]] claims [[Puget Sound]] for Great Britain.
* [[June 13]]
** Vancouver becomes the first European to enter [[Burrard Inlet]].
** [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] declares war against France.

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Polish–Russian War of 1792|Polish–Russian War]]: [[Battle of Dubienka]] – Soldiers of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], led by [[Tadeusz Kościuszko]], resist an attack from [[Imperial Russian Army]] forces five times their size.
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick|Charles William Ferdinand]], [[Duke of Brunswick]], commander of the Allied army issues the [[Brunswick Manifesto]] threatening the Parisians with military execution and complete destruction should the French royal family be harmed in any way.
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[French Revolution]]: [[Insurrection of 10 August 1792]] – The [[Tuileries Palace]] is stormed and [[Louis XVI of France]] is arrested and taken into custody.
* [[August 29]]&ndash;[[September 2]] &ndash; [[War of the First Coalition]]: [[Battle of Verdun (1792)|Battle of Verdun]] – Prussian forces defeat French troops led by [[Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire]].<ref>{{Cite book|first1=Anne|last1=Blanchard|first2=Philippe|last2=Contamine|title=Histoire militaire de la France|volume=2 : de 1715 à 1871|publisher=PUF|year=1992|page=264|language=fr|isbn=978-2-13-044415-2}}.</ref>
* [[August 21]] &ndash; Royalist Louis Collenot d'Angremont becomes the first person executed by [[guillotine]] for political reasons, in Paris.
* [[September]] &ndash; [[Macartney Embassy]]: [[George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney]], sails from [[Portsmouth]] in [[HMS Lion (1777)|HMS ''Lion'']] as the first official envoy from Great Britain to China.
* [[September 2]]&ndash;[[September 7|7]] &ndash; [[French Revolution]]: [[September Massacres]] &ndash; Rampaging mobs slaughter three [[Roman Catholic]] [[bishop]]s and more than 200 [[priest]]s, together with at least 1,000 other criminals.
* [[September 11]] &ndash; Six men steal some of the former [[French Crown Jewels]] from a warehouse where the revolutionary government has stored them.
* [[September 12]] &ndash; The town of  [[Fort Borbon]] is founded by Governor Joaquín Alós y Bru. Nowadays it is called [[Fuerte Olimpo]].
* [[September 14]] &ndash; Radical antimonarchist [[Thomas Paine]] flees from England to France after being indicted for treason. He is [[Trial in absentia|tried ''in absentia'']] during December and [[outlaw]]ed.<ref name=CBH232233>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=232–233|isbn=978-0-7126-5616-0}}</ref>
[[File:Valmy Battle painting.jpg|thumb|right| [[September 20]]: [[Battle of Valmy]].]]
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[French Revolutionary Wars]]: [[Battle of Valmy]] &ndash; The French revolutionary army defeats the Prussians under the [[Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel|Duke of Brunswick]] after a 7-hour artillery duel.
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[French Revolution]]: A [[Proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy]] by the French Convention goes into effect, and the [[French First Republic]] is established, effective the following day.
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[French Revolution]]: The [[Calendar era|Era]] of the historical [[French Republican Calendar]] begins.
* [[September 30]] – [[Chickamauga Cherokee]] launch an attack on [[Middle Tennessee]] to exterminate the White settlers; they are stopped at the opening battle at [[Buchanan's Station]] outside [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashboro]].

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 2]] &ndash; The [[Baptist Missionary Society]] is founded in [[Kettering]], England.
* [[October 3]] &ndash; A militia departs from the Spanish [[Valdivian Fort System|stronghold]] of [[Valdivia]] to quell a [[Huilliche uprising of 1792|Huilliche uprising]] in southern Chile.<ref>{{cite book
 | last       = Barros Arana
 | first      = Diego
 | author-link1 = Diego Barros Arana 
 | title      = Historia General de Chile
 | volume     = VII
 | url        = http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-9008.html
 | year       = 2000
 | orig-year   = 1886
 | edition    = 2
 | publisher  = [[Editorial Universitaria]]
 | location   = Santiago, Chile
 | isbn       = 956-11-1535-2 
 | language   = es
 |chapter = Capítulo XVII
 |pages = 66–70
  }}</ref>
* [[October 12]] &ndash; 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]] &ndash; Foundation of [[Washington, D.C.]]: The cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the [[White House]] after [[1818]]) is laid.
[[File:Mount Hood reflected in Mirror Lake, Oregon.jpg|thumb|right| [[October 29]]: [[Mount Hood]] is named.]]
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Mount Hood]] ([[Oregon]]) is named after British Admiral [[Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood|Lord Hood]] by [[William Robert Broughton|Lt. William Broughton]] of the [[Vancouver Expedition]], who spots the mountain near the mouth of the [[Willamette River]].
* [[November 6]]
** [[War of the First Coalition]]: [[Battle of Jemappes]] &ndash; Austrian armies under the command of [[Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen|Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen]] are defeated in Belgium (at this time part of the Austrian Netherlands) by the French Army led by General [[Charles François Dumouriez]].<ref>Eric J. Evans, ''The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783-1870'' (Routledge, 2014)</ref>
** The [[1792 United States presidential election|second United States presidential election]] is held. Incumbent President [[George Washington]] receives all 132 electoral votes for president, and incumbent Vice President [[John Adams]] is re-elected with 77 of 132 votes, with [[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]] receiving 50.<ref name="Harper1792"/>
* [[November 19]] &ndash; France's [[National Convention]] passes a resolution pledging French support for the overthrow of the governments of other nations.<ref>Robert Bisset, ''The Reign of George III: To which is Prefixed a View of the Progressive Improvements of England in Property and Strength to the Accession of His Majesty'', Volume 2 (Edward Parker, 1822) p855</ref>
* [[December 3]] &ndash; [[George Washington]] is re-elected president of the United States.
* [[December 26]] &ndash; The trial of [[Louis XVI of France]] begins.

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Tipu Sultan]] invades [[Kerala]], India, but is repulsed.
* Hungarian astronomer [[Franz Xaver von Zach]] publishes ''The Tables of the Sun'', an essential early work for navigation.
* [[Claude Chappe]] successfully demonstrates the first [[semaphore line]], between Paris and Lille.
* Scottish engineer [[William Murdoch]] begins experimenting with [[gas lighting]].
* George Anschutz constructs the first [[blast furnace]] in [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]].
* [[Mary Wollstonecraft]]'s ''[[A Vindication of the Rights of Woman]]'', one of the earliest works of feminist literature, is published in London.
* [[Barthélemy Catherine Joubert]], future French general, becomes sub-lieutenant.
* [[Johann Georg Albrechtsberger]] becomes [[Kapellmeister]] in [[Vienna]].
* The [[State Street Corporation]] is founded, in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]].
* The [[Insurance Company of North America]] (later [[Chubb Limited|Chubb]]) is founded in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]].
* Shiloh Meeting House, predecessor of Shiloh United Methodist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, is founded.
* The first [[written examination]]s in Europe are held at the [[University of Cambridge]] in England.
* The composer [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] moves to [[Vienna]] from Bonn to study with [[Haydn]]. He would live in Vienna for the rest of his life.
* [[James Johnstone (explorer)|James Johnstone]] establishes that [[Vancouver Island]] is an [[island]].

== Births ==
=== January&ndash;June ===
[[File:Rossini c. 1850-litho-F Perrin.jpeg|thumb|110px|[[Gioachino Rossini]]]]
[[File:Thaddeus Stevens - Brady-Handy-crop.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Thaddeus Stevens]]]]
[[File:IX. Piusz pápa.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Pope Pius IX]]]]
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Johann Arfvedson]], Swedish chemist (d. [[1841]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Karl Ernst von Baer]], German naturalist (d. [[1876]])
* [[February 29]] &ndash; [[Gioachino Rossini]], Italian composer (d. [[1868]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Henry Sutherland Edwards|title=Gioachino Rossini, 1792-1861, and His Successors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xWdFAQAAMAAJ|year=1894|publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Company|pages=3–4}}</ref>
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler]], German church historian (d. [[1854]])
* [[March 4]] 
** [[Isaac Lea]], American conchologist, geologist and publisher (d. [[1886]])
** [[Samuel Slocum]], American inventor (d. [[1861]])
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[John Herschel]], English mathematician and astronomer (d. [[1871]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8CdCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA123|year=1872|publisher=Priestley and Weale|pages=123}}</ref>
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Karl Gottlob Zumpt]], German classical scholar (d. [[1849]])
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Francisco de Paula Santander]], President of Colombia (d. [[1840]])
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Thaddeus Stevens]], American politician (d. [[1868]])
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Thomas Romney Robinson]], Irish astronomer and physicist (d. [[1882]])
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[John Keble]], English churchman and poet (d. [[1866]])
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Willie Person Mangum]], American politician (d. [[1861]])
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Pope Pius IX]] (b. Giovanni Mastai-Ferretti), Italian churchman (d. [[1878]])
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[James Mayer de Rothschild]], German-born banker (d. [[1868]])
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Anne Isabella Milbanke]], English wife of [[Lord Byron]] (d. [[1860]])
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Margaret Ann Neve]], Guernesiaise [[supercentenarian]] (d. [[1903]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis]], French engineer and scientist (d. [[1843]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=James Willard Nybakken|author2=William W. Broenkow|author3=Tracy Lowell Vallier|title=Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Marine Sciences|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O-w5AQAAIAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Grolier Academic Reference|isbn=978-0-7172-5946-5|page=252}}</ref>
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[William Austin Burt]], American inventor, "father of the typewriter" (d. [[1858]])
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[John Linnell (painter)|John Linnell]], English painter (d. [[1882]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=P. & D. Colnaghi & Co|author2=John Linnell|title=A Loan Exhibition of Drawings, Watercolours and Paintings by John Linnell and His Circle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NV9IAQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Lund Humphries|page=1787}}</ref>
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Christian Baur]], German theologian (d. [[1860]])

=== July&ndash;December ===
[[File:Percy Bysshe Shelley by Alfred Clint.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Percy Bysshe Shelley]]]]
[[File:John-Russell-1st-Earl-Russell (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Russell, 1st Earl Russell]]]]
* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[William Henry Smith (1792–1865)|William Henry Smith]], English newsvendor and bookseller (d. [[1865]])
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[Frederick Marryat]], British naval captain and novelist (d. [[1848]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|entry-url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-Marryat|entry=Frederick Marryat: English naval officer and author|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2016-07-03}}</ref>
* [[July 27]] &ndash; [[Maria Quitéria]], Brazilian national heroine (d. [[1853]])
* [[August 4]] &ndash; [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], English poet (d. [[1822]])<ref>{{cite book|author=William Michael Rossetti|title=Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley: (with New Preface)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2sOFoEeQAL0C&pg=PA5|year=1886|publisher=John Slark|pages=5}}</ref>
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen]], queen of [[William IV of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1849]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Sarah Brown|title=A History of the Stained Glass of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GhLrAAAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Dean and Canons of Windsor|isbn=978-0-9539676-3-6|page=246}}</ref>
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[John Russell, 1st Earl Russell]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1878]])
* [[August 22]] &ndash; [[John Church Hamilton]], American historian (d. [[1882]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Manuel Oribe]], 2nd President of Uruguay (d. [[1857]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Grolier Incorporated|title=Academic American encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0F4NAQAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Grolier|isbn=978-0-7172-2068-7|page=443}}</ref>
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Vicente Ramón Roca]], 3rd President of Ecuador (d. [[1858]])
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[William Backhouse Astor, Sr.]], American business tycoon (d. [[1875]])
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[William Hobson]], first Governor of New Zealand (d. [[1842]])
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Thomas Mitchell (explorer)|Thomas Livingstone Mitchell]], explorer, Surveyor-General of New South Wales, Australia (d. [[1855]])
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Carlos Antonio López]], president of [[Paraguay]] (d. [[1862]])
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Samuel Nelson]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1873]])
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Mary Anne Evans]], wife of [[Benjamin Disraeli]] (d. [[1872]])
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Victor Cousin]], French philosopher (d. [[1867]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R8EEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA163|year=1867|publisher=Houlston and Stonemen|pages=163}}</ref>
* [[December 1]] &ndash; [[Nikolai Lobachevsky]], Russian mathematician (d. [[1856]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Andrés de Santa Cruz]], Peruvian military officer, seventh [[President of Peru]] and [[President of Bolivia]] (d. [[1865]])
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[William II of the Netherlands]] (d. [[1849]])
*''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Nodira]], Uzbek poet and stateswoman (d. [[1842]])

== Deaths ==

=== January&ndash;June ===
[[File:Admiral of the White by Thomas Gainsborough.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney]]]]
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[George Horne (bishop)|George Horne]], British academic and [[Bishop of Norwich]] (b.[[1730]]) 
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[John Witherspoon]], Scottish American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. [[1723]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; Sir [[Joshua Reynolds]], English painter (b. [[1723]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph Farington|title=Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=krZNAAAAYAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Pallas Athene|isbn=978-1-84368-001-7|page=151}}</ref>
* [[March 1]] 
** [[Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1747]])
** [[Jean Godin des Odonais]], French cartographer and naturalist (b. [[1713]])
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Angelo Emo]], Venetian admiral and statesman (b. [[1731]])
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Robert Adam]], Scottish architect and designer (b. [[1728]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank N. Magill|title=The 17th and 18th Centuries: Dictionary of World Biography, Volume 4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HaHdAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA7|date=13 September 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-92414-0|pages=7}}</ref>
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1713]])<ref>{{cite web |title=History of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute - GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/john-stuart-3rd-earl-of-bute |website=www.gov.uk |access-date=19 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Luís António Verney]], Portuguese philosopher and pedagogue (b. [[1713]])
* [[March 29]] &ndash; King [[Gustav III of Sweden]] (assassinated) (b. [[1746]])
* [[April 3]] &ndash; Sir [[George Pocock]], British admiral (b. [[1706]])
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[James Sykes (Continental Congress)|James Sykes]], American politician (b. [[1725]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Maximilian Hell]], Slovakian astronomer (b. [[1720]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Matthias von Schoenberg]], Catholic author (b. [[1732]])<ref>{{CathEncy|wstitle=Matthias von Schoenberg}}</ref>
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Karl Friedrich Bahrdt]], German theologian, adventurer (b. [[1741]])
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich]], English statesman (b. [[1718]])
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[John Stevens (New Jersey politician)|John Stevens]], American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. c. [[1715]])
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Charles Simon Favart]], French dramatist (b. [[1710]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Don Michael Randel|title=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&pg=PA262|year=1996|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-37299-3|pages=262}}</ref>
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney]], British naval officer (b. [[1718]])
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[John Burgoyne]], British general (b. [[1723]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Rhodehamel|title=The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PkF3AAAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Library of America|isbn=978-1-883011-91-8|page=816}}</ref>
* [[June 22]] &ndash; [[Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab]], Arabian Wahhabi preacher (b. [[1703]])

=== July&ndash;December ===
[[File:Madame la princesse de Lamballe by Antoine-François Callet (circa 1776, Callet).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe]]]]
* [[July 3]] &ndash; [[Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]] (b. [[1721]])
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[John Paul Jones]], American-born naval captain (b. [[1747]])
* [[July 21]] &ndash; [[Richard Hancorn (Royal Navy officer)|Richard Hancorne]], British Royal Navy officer (b. [[1754]])
* [[July 29]] &ndash; [[René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou]], Chancellor of France (b. [[1714]])
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Richard Arkwright]], English inventor (b. [[1732]])
* [[August 4]] &ndash; [[John Burgoyne]], British army officer, playwright and politician (b. [[1722]])
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Frederick North, Lord North]], [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]] (b. [[1732]])<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Lord Frederick North - GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/frederick-north |website=www.gov.uk |access-date=1 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe]], French princess, courtier to [[Marie Antoinette]] (killed in [[September Massacres]]) (b. [[1749]])
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Charles d'Abancour]], French statesman (killed in September Massacres) (b. [[1758]])
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Nguyễn Huệ]], Vietnamese emperor (b. [[1753]])
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[August Gottlieb Spangenberg]], German religious leader (b. [[1704]])
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Adam Gottlob Moltke]], Danish statesman (b. [[1710]])
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[George Browne (soldier)|George Browne]], Russian-Irish field-marshal (b. [[1698]])
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[George Mason]], American patriot (b. [[1725]])
* [[October 14]] &ndash; [[Sophie Charlotte Ackermann]], German actress (b. [[1714]])
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Anders Rudolf du Rietz]], Swedish general, count and politician (b. [[1722]])
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Guillaume Le Gentil]], French astronomer (b. [[1725]])
* [[October 28]]
** [[Paul Möhring]], German physician and scientist (b. [[1710]])
** [[John Smeaton]], English civil engineer (b. [[1724]])
* [[November]] &ndash; [[Samuel Hearne]], English explorer, fur-trader, author and naturalist (b. [[1745]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Marie Jeanne Riccoboni]] (Laboras de Mezières), French novelist (b. [[1714]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Samia I. Spencer|title=Writers of the French Enlightenment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K9EUAQAAIAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Thomson Gale|isbn=978-0-7876-8132-6|page=108}}</ref>
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Henry Laurens]], political leader during the [[American Revolutionary War]], father of [[John Laurens]] (b. [[1724]]) 
* [[December 15]]
** [[Joseph Martin Kraus]], Swedish composer (b. [[1756]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Burnett R. Toskey|title=Concertos for Violin and Viola: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZwJAQAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=B.R. Toskey|isbn=978-0-9601054-8-9|page=451}}</ref>
** [[Hugh Pigot (Royal Navy officer, born 1722)|Hugh Pigot]], British Royal Navy admiral (b. [[1722]])

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