Calendar of Literary Facts
1792
- Thomas Paine is indicted for treason for publishing The Rights of Man, which defends the French Revolution
- Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Women
- The Girondists seize power in France
- The French Republic is founded
- Georges Danton and the Jacobins overthrow the Girondins in Paris
- Percy Bysshe Shelley is born (September 4)
