Editing 1792 (section)

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* [[Tipu Sultan]] invades [[Kerala]], India, but is repulsed.
* Hungarian astronomer [[Franz Xaver von Zach]] publishes ''The Tables of the Sun'', an essential early work for navigation.
* [[Claude Chappe]] successfully demonstrates the first [[semaphore line]], between Paris and Lille.
* Scottish engineer [[William Murdoch]] begins experimenting with [[gas lighting]].
* George Anschutz constructs the first [[blast furnace]] in [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]].
* [[Mary Wollstonecraft]]'s ''[[A Vindication of the Rights of Woman]]'', one of the earliest works of feminist literature, is published in London.
* [[Barthélemy Catherine Joubert]], future French general, becomes sub-lieutenant.
* [[Johann Georg Albrechtsberger]] becomes [[Kapellmeister]] in [[Vienna]].
* The [[State Street Corporation]] is founded, in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]].
* The [[Insurance Company of North America]] (later [[Chubb Limited|Chubb]]) is founded in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]].
* Shiloh Meeting House, predecessor of Shiloh United Methodist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, is founded.
* The first [[written examination]]s in Europe are held at the [[University of Cambridge]] in England.
* The composer [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] moves to [[Vienna]] from Bonn to study with [[Haydn]]. He would live in Vienna for the rest of his life.
* [[James Johnstone (explorer)|James Johnstone]] establishes that [[Vancouver Island]] is an [[island]].