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=== October–December === * [[October 2]] – The [[Baptist Missionary Society]] is founded in [[Kettering]], England. * [[October 3]] – A militia departs from the Spanish [[Valdivian Fort System|stronghold]] of [[Valdivia]] to quell a [[Huilliche uprising of 1792|Huilliche uprising]] in southern Chile.<ref>{{cite book | last = Barros Arana | first = Diego | author-link1 = Diego Barros Arana | title = Historia General de Chile | volume = VII | url = http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-9008.html | year = 2000 | orig-year = 1886 | edition = 2 | publisher = [[Editorial Universitaria]] | location = Santiago, Chile | isbn = 956-11-1535-2 | language = es |chapter = Capítulo XVII |pages = 66–70 }}</ref> * [[October 12]] – The first [[Columbus Day]] celebration in the United States is held in New York City, 300 years after his arrival in the New World. * [[October 13]] – Foundation of [[Washington, D.C.]]: The cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the [[White House]] after [[1818]]) is laid. [[File:Mount Hood reflected in Mirror Lake, Oregon.jpg|thumb|right| [[October 29]]: [[Mount Hood]] is named.]] * [[October 29]] – [[Mount Hood]] ([[Oregon]]) is named after British Admiral [[Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood|Lord Hood]] by [[William Robert Broughton|Lt. William Broughton]] of the [[Vancouver Expedition]], who spots the mountain near the mouth of the [[Willamette River]]. * [[November 6]] ** [[War of the First Coalition]]: [[Battle of Jemappes]] – Austrian armies under the command of [[Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen|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]].<ref>Eric J. Evans, ''The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783-1870'' (Routledge, 2014)</ref> ** The [[1792 United States presidential election|second United States presidential election]] is held. Incumbent President [[George Washington]] receives all 132 electoral votes for president, and incumbent Vice President [[John Adams]] is re-elected with 77 of 132 votes, with [[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]] receiving 50.<ref name="Harper1792"/> * [[November 19]] – France's [[National Convention]] passes a resolution pledging French support for the overthrow of the governments of other nations.<ref>Robert Bisset, ''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 (Edward Parker, 1822) p855</ref> * [[December 3]] – [[George Washington]] is re-elected president of the United States. * [[December 26]] – The trial of [[Louis XVI of France]] begins.
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