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Details Aug 1792 - Sept 1792  French Revolution: The Commune of Paris (six ministers including Danton) tries to fend off invasion and organize elections. *French Revolution  
Details Aug 4, 1792  Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley.  
Details Aug 10, 1792  French Revolution: Insurrection in Paris; attack on the Tuileries Palace leading to the suspension of the King's powers, the imprisonment of the royal family, and the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly; the monarchy is overthrown. *French Revolution  
Details Aug 20, 1792  French Revolution: The Coalition Armies (Austrian, Prussian, and French royalist troops) attack France. *French Revolution  
Details Sept 2, 1792 - Sept 6, 1792  French Revolution: The "September Massacres"; also called "the uprising of the Paris Commune": 12,000 political prisoners murdered following the news of the fall of Verdun. (These prisoners were ordinary criminals, priests, aristocrats, counter-revolutionaries, and servants of these people.) *French Revolution  
Details Sept 13, 1792  Thomas Paine flees to France. *French Revolution  
Details Sept 20, 1792  French Revolution: The French win a major battle at Valmy; Coalition army retreats to the Rhine. *French Revolution  
Details Sept 21, 1792  French Revolution: Newly elected National Convention abolishes the monarchy; France declared a Republic. *French Revolution  
Details Sept 21, 1792  London Corresponding Society's "Joint Address to the French National Convention." *French Revolution  
Details Oct 29, 1792  France Revolution: Louvet denounces Robespierre all alone. *French Revolution  
Details Nov 1792  Beethoven leaves for Vienna to study with Haydn, never returning to Bonn.  
Details Nov 1792  French Revolution: France calls on other nations to revolt, pledging her assistance and fraternity. *French Revolution  
Details Nov 20, 1792  The anti-jacobin backlash: John Reeves founds the Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers. They begin bringing charges of libel and sedition against pro-reform booksellers and publishers, many of whom, after spending years in prison and paying inordinate fines, emigrated to the U.S.  
Details Dec 1792  First General Convention of Scottish Reformers in Edinburgh (Muir & Palmer). *Scotland  
Details Dec 1792  French Revolution: Louis XVI tried for treason. *French Revolution  
Details Dec 1792  William Wordsworth returns to England, leaving his lover Annette Vallon.  
Details Dec 1792  Mary Wollstonecraft leaves for France 3 weeks after her confrontation with Sophia Fuseli.  
Details Dec 1, 1792  King's Proclamation drawing out the British militia.  
Details Dec 15, 1792  Annette Vallon gives birth to Caroline, her daughter by William Wordsworth.  
Details Dec 18, 1792  Thomas Paine found guilty of sedition for The Rights Of Man (Part II) and sentenced to death (people convicted of "treason," a charge worse than "sedition," were sentenced to something worse than death: their entrails were to be cut out and burned in front of their eyes just before they were drawn and quartered).  
Details Dec 22, 1792  Whigs form a group, "Friends of the Liberty of the Press," for the purpose of defending free speech against the attack of the Reevites and other Loyalist Associations. *Whig Party  
Details 1793  Anna Laetitia Barbauld contributes to Evenings at Home, by John Aikin, published in January.  
Details 1793  The Terror: Terrorism in France, Alarmism in England as French Revolution intensifies. *French Revolution  
Details 1793  French Revolution: internal factionalizing of the revolutionary movement (inciting the Terror), uprisings, and counter-revolutionary revolts. Girondins fall to the militaristic Jacobin faction headed by Jean-Paul Marat, Georges Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre, the last two soon to become opponents. Feudal rights abolished without compensation to former aristocracy (aristocrats, like the clergy before them, lose their property). *French Revolution  
Details 1793  William Wilberforce's second bill for abolition passed by Commons but defeated by Lords. Commons narrowly rejects motions to reintroduce general abolition and to abolish the British foreign slave trade. A compromise is forged by slavery advocate Sir William Dundas, at the behest of Prime Minister Pitt, providing for gradual abolition by January 1, 1796. It passes 230 to 85--but fails later. Decline of public agitation and abolition society activity. Britain begins campaign to capture the French slave islands. Tobago and Cape Nicolas-Mole on St. Domingue are occupied. *Abolition
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