1792 in France

Events from the year 1792 in France.

Incumbents

Monarch: Louis XVI
The [National National Legislative Assembly (France)|Legislative Assembly (France)|Legislative Assembly]
The National Convention

25 March – The Legislative Assembly agrees that the guillotine should be used for judicial executions.

10 August – French Revolution: Insurrection of 10 August 1792 – The Tuileries Palace is stormed and Louis XVI is arrested and taken into custody.
20 August – War of the First Coalition: Battle of Verdun – Prussia defeats France, opening a route to Paris.
21 August – Royalist Louis Collenot d'Angremont becomes the first person executed by guillotine for political reasons, in the Place du Carrousel in Paris.

2–19 September – 1792 French National Convention election.
2–7 September – French Revolution: September Massacres – Rampaging mobs in Paris slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops and more than 200 priests, together with at least 1,000 criminals.
9 September – 9 September massacres at Versailles.
11 September – Six men steal some of the former French Crown Jewels from a warehouse, where the revolutionary government has stored them.
14 September – Radical antimonarchist Thomas Paine flees from England to France, after being indicted for treason. He is tried in absentia during December and outlawed.
20 September – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Valmy – The French revolutionary army defeats the Prussians under the Duke of Brunswick after a 7-hour artillery duel.
21 September – 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.
22 September – French Revolution: The Era of the historical French Republican Calendar begins.

6 November – War of the First Coalition: Battle of Jemappes – Austrian armies under the command of Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen are defeated in Belgium by the French Army led by General Charles François Dumouriez.
19 November – The National Convention passes a resolution pledging French support for the overthrow of the governments of other nations.

Claude Chappe successfully demonstrates the first semaphore line, between Paris and Lille.
Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, future general, becomes sub-lieutenant.