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| 1792 |
| | | The Brazilian rebel Tiradentes is beheaded in public in Rio de Janeiro as a warning to would-be revolutionaries | |
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| 1792 |
| | | Charlotte Square in Edinburgh begins to be built to the design of Robert Adam | |
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| 1792 |
| | | English author Mary Wollstonecraft publishes a passionately feminist work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | |
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| 1792 |
| | | Thomas Paine moves hurriedly to France, to escape a charge of treason in England for opinions expressed in his Rights of Man | |
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| 1792 |
| | | A French revolutionary army defeats the Austrians and Prussians at Valmy, and thus saves Paris from attack | |
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| 1792 |
| | | After their success at Valmy, French republican armies overrun much of the Austrian Netherlands | |
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| 1792 |
| | | During four September days, thugs are encouraged to massacre some 1400 aristocrats and priests held in Paris prisons | |
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| 1792 |
| | | Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific coast of Canada, becoming the first known person to cross the north American continent | |
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| 1792 |
| | | The National Convention abolishes royalty in France and establishes the first republic | |
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| 1792 |
| | | The first political parties, Hamilton's Federalists and Jefferson's Republicans, emerge in the USA | |
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