| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. |
| 1792 | England [women's rights] | The English writer and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft publishes her Vindication of the Rights of Woman. |
| 9 January 1792 | Russia, Ottoman Empire [Russian–Ottoman Wars (1768–1878)] | Russia, deserted by the Habsburg Monarchy and concerned over Prussian intrigues in Poland, ends the Russo-Ottoman War by the Treaty of Jassy, obtaining the Black Sea port of Ochakov and a boundary on the River Dniester, but restoring Moldavia, Bessarabia, and Wallachia to the Ottomans. |
| 5 February 1792 | India [Anglo–Mysore Wars (1767–99)] | Tippu, sultan of Mysore, India, is defeated in his war with the British and Hyderabad. He cedes half of Mysore to Britain. |
| 29 February 1792 | Italy [births and deaths] | Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer, born in Pesaro, Papal States (–1868). |
| 29 March 1792 | Sweden [revolution] | King Gustav III of Sweden is assassinated in the course of an aristocratic coup. |
| 19 May 1792 | Russia, Poland [wars] | Russian forces invade Poland, to forestall constitutional changes designed to stabilize the Polish monarchy and thus weaken Russian influence in the country. |
| 8 July 1792 | France, Prussia [French Revolution] | France declares war on Prussia, in response to the Austro-Prussian alliance of 7 February 1792. |
| 4 August 1792 | England [births and deaths] | Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Romantic lyric poet, born in Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, England (–1822). |
| 10 August 1792 | France [French Revolution] | A huge mob storms the royal palace in the Tuileries, Paris, France, massacring the Swiss Guard. The Legislative Assembly declares the king's authority suspended. A new revolutionary Commune de Paris (municipal government) replaces the original body set up in 1789, sharing power in the French capital with a Provisional Executive Council and the Legislative Assembly. |
| 21 September 1792 | France [administration] | The French National Convention convenes in Paris, replacing the Legislative Assembly. |
| 22 September 1792 | France [everyday life] | The National Convention in Paris proclaims France a republic, and the revolutionary calendar (although not established until 5 October 1793) comes into force. It comprises 12 months of 30 days, plus 5 days (6 in a leap year); each month has 3 decades of 10 days. The extra days are added at the end of the year. |
| 6 November 1792 | France, Austrian Netherlands, Austria-HM, Belgium [French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1801)] | French forces under General Charles-François Dumouriez defeat an Austrian army at Jemappes, after which they take Brussels and overrun the Austrian Netherlands (Belgium). |
| 27 November 1792 | France, Savoy, Austrian Netherlands [trade] | France annexes Savoy and Nice from the Kingdom of Savoy-Piedmont and opens the River Scheldt in the Austrian Netherlands to commerce. |
| 5 December 1792 | USA [elections] | George Washington is re-elected president of the USA. John Adams, the runner-up, returns to the office of vice-president. |
| 26 December 1792 | England [births and deaths] | Charles Babbage, English inventor who designed the first digital computer, born in Teignmouth, Devon, England (–1871). |
