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Key Events in the History of Nova Scotia: 1792.
- April 2nd: HMS Alligator brings into Halifax Harbour two French Prizes.
- May 12th: Sir John Wentworth arrived at Halifax. On May 14th, 1792, he is sworn in as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. He remained so for the next sixteen years, until 1808.
- June 1st, 1792, Thomas Strange, the Chief Justice, sits as a councilor.
- August 10th, 1792: A Parisian mob, led by the rhetoric of Danton, storm the Tuileries and take the royal family as prisoners.
- "September massacres" as it is known in French History, when a mass killing of political prisoners occurred in Paris from the 2nd to the 6th of September, 1792.
- The "Great Pictou Road" was opened. It was driven through to Musquodoboit and then on to Dartmouth.
- In England, "the fourteen years from the outbreak of the French revolution to the Peace of Amiens -- from 1789 till 1802 -- formed an almost unbroken succession of bad harvests, and that of 1792 was one of the worst of the series. .. It was, then, at a moment of acute commercial and agricultural crisis that this most pacific and commercial of ministers [Pitt] found himself confronted with a war of the very first magnitude." [Lord Rosebery's biography, Pitt (London: MacMillan, 1891) at p. 118.]
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[Forward In Time (1793)]- April 2nd: HMS Alligator brings into Halifax Harbour two French Prizes.
