1792 in France

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

• 20 April – The Legislative Assembly declares war against Austria, starting the French Revolutionary Wars and War of the First Coalition.
• 25 April
• Highwayman Nicolas Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine in France, in what becomes the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville in Paris.
• La Marseillaise, the French national anthem, is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg.

• 13 June – Prussia declares war against France.
• 20 June – Demonstration of 20 June 1792.

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• 10 August – French Revolution: Insurrection of 10 August 1792 – The Tuileries Palace is stormed and Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
• 20 August – War of the First Coalition: Battle of Verdun – Prussia defeats France, opening a route to Paris.{{cite book|last=Parker|first=Geoffrey|title=The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare|year=2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-521-73806-4|page=195|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yqNj5BlEMtcC&pg=PA195|access-date=2012-01-22}}
• 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.{{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}}
• 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.

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• 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 (at this time part of the Austrian Netherlands) by the French Army led by General Charles François Dumouriez.{{cite book|first=Eric J.|last=Evans|title=The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783–1870|publisher=Routledge|year=2014}}
• 19 November – The National Convention passes a resolution pledging French support for the overthrow of the governments of other nations.{{cite book|first=Robert|last=Bisset|title=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|publisher=Edward Parker|year=1822|page=855}}

• 26 December – The trial of Louis XVI of France begins.

• French Revolution
• French Revolutionary Wars
• War of the First Coalition

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

• 21 May – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, engineer, scientist
• 1 August – Pierre Solomon Ségalas d'Etchépare, physician{{cite journal |last=Ségal |first=Alain

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• 9 August – Charles-François Lebœuf, sculptor
• 25 August – Jean-Baptiste Duvergier, lawyer
• 28 November – Victor Cousin, philosopher

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• 1 March – Jean Godin des Odonais, cartographer and naturalist
• 12 May – Charles Simon Favart, dramatist
• 29 July – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France
• 21 August – Louis Collenot d'Angremont, counter-revolutionary (guillotined)
• 23 August – Arnaud II de La Porte, statesman (executed)
• 25 August – Jacques Cazotte, writer (executed)
• 3 September
• Karl Josef von Bachmann, Swiss Guards commander (guillotined)
• Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, princess, courtier to Marie Antoinette (killed in September Massacres)
• 9 September
• Louis Hercule Timoléon de Cossé, 8th Duke of Brissac, military commander (killed in September Massacres)
• Claude Antoine de Valdec de Lessart, politician
• Charles d'Abancourt, minister (killed in September Massacres)
• 22 October – Guillaume Le Gentil, astronomer
• 7 December – Marie Jeanne Riccoboni, novelist
• Full date unknown – Nicholas Adam, grammarian

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