2nd » During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
11th » The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.
20th » French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Battle of Valmy known as Valmy.
21st » The National Convention declares France a republic and Proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy known as abolishes the monarchy.
22nd » 'Primidi Vendémiaire' of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
26th » Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
Famous Birthdays on September in 1792
5th » Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857)
26th » William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand explorer and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand (d. 1842)