1792 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1792 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

25 January - The radical London Corresponding Society established.^[1]
7 March - A settlement is formed in Sierra Leone in West Africa as a home for freed slaves.^[1]
4 June - Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain.
21 June - Iolo Morganwg holds the first Gorsedd ceremony, at Primrose Hill in London.
14 September - Thomas Paine flees to France after being indicted for treason. He is subsequently tried in absentia, and outlawed.^[2]
2 October - Baptist Missionary Society is founded in Kettering.
18 December - The trial of Thomas Paine begins.^[3]

Over 300 petitions are presented to Parliament against the slave trade. The House of Commons pledges to "gradually" abolish the trade.^[4]
"Year of the Sheep" in the Scottish Highlands: mass emigration of crofters following Clearances for grazing.
The Libel Act gives the right to juries determine what constitutes libel.^[5]
Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna establish the newsagent's business in Little Grosvenor Street, London, which will become W H Smith.^[6]

Thomas Holcroft's Anna St. Ives, the first British Jacobin novel.
Thomas Paine's second edition of Rights of Man, urging the overthrow of the British monarchy.^[5]
Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, one of the earliest works of feminist literature.^[5]

10 February - Frederick Marryat, author (died 1848)
19 February - Roderick Murchison, geologist (died 1871)
7 March - John Herschel, mathematician and astronomer (died 1871)
25 April - John Keble, poet (died 1866)
17 May - Anne Isabella Milbanke, wife of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (died 1860)
16 June - John Linnell, painter (died 1882)
7 July - William Henry Smith, businessman (died 1865)
4 August - Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (died 1822)
13 August - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen of William IV (died 1849)
18 August - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister (died 1878)
11 November - Mary Anne Evans, wife of Benjamin Disraeli (died 1872)

27 January - George Horne, bishop (born 1730)
23 February - Sir Joshua Reynolds, painter (born 1723)
3 March - Robert Adam, architect (born 1728)
10 March - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister (born 1713)
3 April
- George Pocock, admiral (born 1706)
- John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, statesman (born 1718)
30 April - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, statesman (born 1718)
24 May - George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, naval officer (born 1719)
4 June - John Burgoyne, general (born 1723)
3 August - Richard Arkwright, inventor (born 1732)
5 August - Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister (born 1732)
28 October - John Smeaton, civil engineer (born 1724)