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Year '''1892''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCCXCII]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Friday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian Calendar]] (or a [[leap year starting on Wednesday]] of the 12-day slower [[Julian calendar]]).
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== Events of 1892 ==
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[[Image:Lumbar patent dieselengine.jpg|thumb|150px|right| [[February 27]]: [[Rudolf Diesel]]'s patent.]]
* [[January 1]] - [[Ellis Island]] begins accomodating immigrants to the [[United States]].
* [[January 15]] - [[James Naismith]] publishes the rules for [[basketball]].
* [[January 20]] - At the [[YMCA]] in [[Springfield, Massachusetts]], the first official [[basketball]] game is played.
* [[February 12]] - Former President [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s birthday is declared a national [[holiday]] in the [[United States]].
* [[February 27]] - [[Rudolf Diesel]] applies for a patent on his compression ignition engine (the [[Diesel engine]]).
* [[March 1]] - [[Theodoros Deligiannis]] ends his term as [[Prime Minister of Greece]] and [[Konstantinos Konstantopoulos]] takes office.
* [[March 13]] - [[Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine|Ernest Louis]], a grandson of [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]], becomes [[Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine]] on the death of his father, [[Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine|Grand Duke Louis IV]].
* [[March 15]] - [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool Football Club]] founded by [[John Houlding]], the owner of [[Anfield]]. Houlding decided to form his own team after [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] left Anfield in an argument over rent.
* [[March 20]] - The first ever [[Top 14|French rugby championship]] final takes place in [[Paris]]. [[Pierre de Coubertin]] referees the match, which [[Racing Métro 92 Paris|Racing Club de France]] wins 4-3 over [[Stade Français Paris|Stade Français]].
* [[March 31]] - The world's first [[fingerprinting]] bureau formally opened by the [[Buenos Aires]] Chief of Police; it had been operating unofficially since the previous year.
===April - June===
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* April - [[Johnson County War]] in [[Wyoming]].
* [[April 1]] - Foundation of the city of [[Maebashi]] by the samurai Makuba Kawai.
* [[April 15]] - The [[General Electric Company]] is established through the merger of the Thomson-Houston Company and the Edison General Electric Company.
* [[April 29]] - [[Redondo Beach, California]],[[United States of America|USA]] is founded.
* [[May 7]] - The [[Cook Islands]] issue their first [[postage stamp]]s.
* [[May 19]] - British troops defeat [[Ijebu]] infantry at the Battle of Yemoja River, in modern-day [[Nigeria]], using a [[maxim gun]].
* [[May 22]] - [[United Kingdom|British]] conquest of [[Ijebu-Ode]] marks major extension of colonial power into [[Nigeria]]n interior.
* [[May 24]] - [[George V of the United Kingdom|Prince George of Wales]] becomes [[Duke of York]].
* [[May 28]] - In [[San Francisco, California]], [[John Muir]] organizes the [[Sierra Club]].
* [[June 4]] - [[Abercrombie & Fitch]] is established by [[David Abercrombie]].
* [[June 7]] - [[Homer Plessy]] (who was black) is arrested for sitting on the whites-only car in Louisiana leading to landmark [[Plessy v. Ferguson]] court case.
* [[June 11]] - The [[Limelight Department]], later one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]].
* [[June 30]] - The [[Homestead Strike]] begins in [[Homestead, Pennsylvania]], culminating in a battle between striking workers and private security agents on July 6.
===July - September===
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[[Image:Saint-Gervais-les-Bains - Mt-Blanc JPG01.jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[July 12]]: [[Mont Blanc]].]]
* [[July 4]] [[Samoa]]: Samoa changed its time zone to being 3 hours behind California, such that it crossed the international date line and July 4th occurrs twice.
* [[July 4]]-[[July 18|18]] [[United Kingdom|British]] general election: [[Conservative Party (UK)|Unionist]] government loses its majority.
* [[July 6]]
**Dr. [[Jose Rizal]], a Filipino writer, Philosopher, and political activist arrested by Spanish authorities in connection with [[La Liga Filipina]].
**[[Homestead Strike]] - the arrival of a force of 300 hundred [[Pinkerton National Detective Agency|Pinkerton detectives]] from [[New York]] and [[Chicago]] results in a fight in which about 10 men are killed.
* [[July 8]] - The [[Great Fire of 1892]] devastates the city of [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's]], [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]].
* [[July 12]] - A hidden lake bursts out of a glacier on the side of [[Mont Blanc]], flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers in [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Saint Gervais].
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* [[August 4]] - The father and stepmother of [[Lizzie Borden]] are found murdered in their [[Fall River, Massachusetts]] home.
* [[August 9]] - [[Thomas Edison]] receives a [[patent]] for a two-way [[Telegraphy|telegraph]].
* [[August 18]] - [[William Ewart Gladstone]] assumes [[United Kingdom|British]] premiership at head of [[The Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] government with [[Irish Nationalist Party]] support.
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* [[September 3]] - [[Nottingham Forest]] Football Club play their first league match, a 2-2 draw with [[Everton FC]].
* [[September 15]] - [[Sergei Witte]] replaces Ivan Vyshnegradsky as [[Russia]]n finance minister.
===October - December===
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* [[October 5]]
**The [[Dalton Gang]], attempting to rob 2 banks in [[Coffeyville, Kansas]], is shot by the townspeople; only [[Emmett Dalton]], with 23 wounds, survives to spend 14 years in prison.
**Master criminal [[Adam Worth]] is captured in [[Liège (city)|Liège]], [[Belgium]] during an attempted robbery of a money delivery cart.
* [[October 12]] - To mark 400 anniversary [[Columbus Day]] holiday, the "[[Pledge of Allegiance]]" is first recited in unison by students in US [[public school]]s.
* [[October 31]] - [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] publishes ''[[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]]''.
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* [[November 8]]
**[[U.S. presidential election, 1892]]: [[Grover Cleveland]] is elected over [[Benjamin Harrison]] and [[James B. Weaver]] to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
**[[Anarchist]] bomb kills six in police station in [[Avenue de l'Opera]], [[Paris]].
**The four-day [[New Orleans General Strike]] begins.
* [[November 17]] - [[France|French]] troops occupy [[Abomey]], capital of kingdom of [[Dahomey]].
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* [[December 5]] - [[John Sparrow David Thompson|John Thompson]] becomes [[Canada]]'s fourth [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]].
* [[December 22]] - Newcastle East End F.C. are renamed [[Newcastle United F.C.]] following the demise of Newcastle West End F.C. and East End's move to St James' Park, formerly West End's home.
[[Image:StanleyCup.jpg |thumb|125px|right| [[Stanley Cup]].]]
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[[Image:Otto1892.jpg|thumb|right|Otto Lilienthal sketches key [[A-frame for hang gliders, trikes, and ultralights| A-frame or triangle control frame (TCF)]] in 1892]]
==Undated==
* [[Andrew Carnegie]] combines all of his separate businesses into the [[Carnegie Steel Company]], allowing him to gain a [[monopoly]] in the steel industry.
* The first Canadian National Rugby-Football Championship game is played (Osgoode Hall defeated Montreal 45-5).
* The [[Stanley Cup]] is donated by Sir [[Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby|Frederick Stanley]].
* [[Pennsauken]] is incorporated.
* Oil fire rages in [[Oil City, Pennsylvania]]: 130 dead.
* [[Cholera]] outbreak occurs in [[Hamburg]], [[Germany]].
* A tortoise called ''[[Timothy (tortoise)|Timothy]]'' is brought to the estate of [[Powderham Castle]] in England where she lives until her death in [[2004]].
* [[Abu Dhabi]] becomes a [[United Kingdom|British]] protectorate.
* The [[Highty-Tighties|Cadet Band]] (current day Highty-Tighties) of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (current day [[Virginia Tech]]) is established in the [[Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets]].
* The [[Community of the Resurrection]], an [[Anglican religious order|Anglican religious community]] for men, is founded by [[Charles Gore]] and Walter Frere.
* [[Viruses]] discovered by the [[Russian people|Russian]]-[[Ukrainian people|Ukrainian]] [[biologist]] [[Dimitri Ivanovski]].
* [[Thomas Ahearn]] is the first person to prepare a meal on an [[electric stove]].
* The first electric [[light bulb]] in [[Bulgaria]] is used at the [[Plovdiv Fair]].
*[[Otto Lilienthal]], "father of [[hang gliding]]" sketches a monoplane hang glider that involved the [[A-frame for hang gliders, trikes, and ultralights| A-frame triangular control frame]] (TCF) that double functioned as a kingpost.
*[[Walden, Ontario#Worthington|Worthington, Ontario]], [[Canada]] is incorporated as a mining community.
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==Births==
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===January - June===
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* [[January 1]]
**[[Artur Rodziński]], Polish conductor (d. [[1958]])
**[[Manuel Roxas]], President of the Philippines (d. [[1948]])
* [[January 3]] - [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], professor and author of [[The Lord of the Rings]] (d. [[1973]])
* [[January 14]]
**[[Hal Roach]], American film and television producer (d. [[1992]])
**[[Martin Niemöller]], Prisoner in the Nazi Holocaust (d. [[1984]])
* [[January 18]]
**[[Oliver Hardy]], American comedian and actor (d. [[1957]])
**[[Paul Rostock]], German surgeon (d. [[1956]])
* [[January 19]] - [[Ólafur Thors]], Icelandic politician and five times prime minister (d. [[1964]])
* [[January 28]] - [[Ernst Lubitsch]], German-born film director (d. [[1947]])
* [[January 31]] - [[Eddie Cantor]], American actor, singer (d. [[1964]])
* [[February 6]] - [[William Murphy (scientist)|William Parry Murphy]], American physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1987]])
* [[February 9]] - [[Tommy Treichel]], American professional wrestler (d. [[1932]])
* [[February 13]] - [[Grant Wood]], American painter (d. [[1942]])
* [[February 15]] - [[James Forrestal]], first [[United States Secretary of Defense]] (d. [[1949]])
* [[February 18]] - [[Wendell Wilkie]], U.S. Presidential candidate (d. [[1944]])
* [[February 22]] - [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]], American writer (d. [[1950]])
* [[February 27]] - [[William Demarest]], American actor (d. [[1983]])
* [[March 9 ]] - [[Victoria Mary Sackville-West]], English writer, and gardener , (d. [[1962]])
* [[March 10]]
**[[Arthur Honegger]], French-born Swiss composer (d. [[1955]])
**[[Gregory La Cava]], American director, producer, and writer (d. [[1952]])
* [[March 28]] - [[Corneille Heymans]], Belgian physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1968]])
* [[March 30]] - [[Stefan Banach]], Polish mathematician (d. [[1945]])
* [[April 6]]
**[[Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.|Donald Wills Douglas]], American industrialist (d. [[1981]])
**[[Lowell Thomas]], American journalist (d. [[1981]])
* [[April 8]] - [[Mary Pickford]], Canadian actress and studio founder (d. [[1979]])
* [[April 12]] - [[Johnny Dodds]], American jazz clarinettist (d. [[1940]])
* [[April 13]] - [[Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt]], British (Scottish) inventor of RADAR (d. [[1973]])
* [[April 19]] - [[Germaine Tailleferre]], French composer (d. [[1983]])
* [[April 28]] - [[Joseph Dunninger]], American mentalist (d. [[1975]])
* [[May 2]] - [[Manfred von Richthofen]] (the Red Baron), German WWI fighter pilot (d. [[1918]])
* [[May 3]] - [[George Paget Thomson]], English physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1975]])
* [[May 7]]
**[[Archibald MacLeish]], American poet (d. [[1982]])
**[[Josip Broz Tito]], [[President of Yugoslavia]] (d. [[1980]])
* [[May 9]] - [[Zita of Bourbon-Parma]], Empress of Austria-Hungary (d. [[1989]])
* [[May 11]] - [[Margaret Rutherford]], English actress (d. [[1972]])
* [[May 12]] - [[Fritz Kortner]], Austrian-born director (d. [[1970]])
* [[May 16]] - [[Manton S. Eddy]], U.S. general (d. [[1962]])
* [[May 18]] - [[Ezio Pinza]], Italian bass (d. [[1957]])
* [[May 30]] - [[Fernando Amorsolo]], Filipino painter (d. [[1972]])
* [[May 31]] - [[Michel Kikoine]], Belarusian painter (d. [[1968]])
* [[June 21]] - [[Reinhold Niebuhr]], American theologian (d. [[1971]])
* [[June 25]] - [[Katherine K. Davis]], American composer (d. [[1980]])
* [[June 26]] - [[Pearl S. Buck]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1973]])
* [[June 30]] - [[Oswald Pohl]], German SS officer (d. [[1951]])
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* [[July 6]] - [[Willy Coppens]], Belgian WWI flying ace (d. [[1986]])
* [[July 8]] - [[Richard Aldington]], English poet (d. [[1962]])
* [[July 11]] - [[Thomas Mitchell (actor)|Thomas Mitchell]], American actor (d. [[1962]])
* [[July 12]] - [[Bruno Schulz]], Polish writer and painter (d. [[1942]])
* [[July 23]] - [[Haile Selassie I]], Ethiopian emperor (d. [[1975]])
* [[July 26]] - [[Sad Sam Jones]], baseball player (d. [[1966]])
* [[July 29]] - [[William Powell]], American actor (d. [[1984]])
* [[August 2]] - [[Jack Warner]], Canadian film producer (d. [[1978]])
* [[August 8]] - [[Rafael Moreno Aranzadi]], Spanish footballer (d. [[1922]])
* [[August 11]] - [[Hugh MacDiarmid]], Scottish poet (d. [[1978]])
* [[August 16]] - [[Louis, 7th duc de Broglie]], French physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1987]])
* [[September 4]] - [[Darius Milhaud]], French composer (d. [[1974]])
* [[September 5]] - [[Joseph Szigeti]], Hungarian violinist (d. [[1973]])
* [[September 6]] - [[Edward Victor Appleton]], English physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1965]])
* [[September 10]] - [[Arthur Compton]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1962]])
* [[September 12]] - [[Alfred A. Knopf (person)|Alfred A. Knopf]], American publisher (d. [[1984]])
* [[October 9]] - [[Ivo Andric|Ivo Andrić]], Serbo-Croatian writer, [[Nobel Prize for Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1975]])
* [[October 9]] - [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], Russian poet (d. [[1941]])
* [[October 23]] - [[Gummo Marx]], American actor and comedian (d. [[1977]])
* [[October 28]] - [[Dink Johnson]], American jazz musician (d. [[1954]])
* [[October 30]] - [[Charles Atlas]], Italian-American [[strongman (strength athlete)|strongman]] and [[sideshow]] performer (d. [[1972]])
* [[October 31]] - [[Alexander Alekhine]], Russian chess champion (d. [[1946]])
* [[November 5]] - [[J. B. S. Haldane]], British geneticist (d. [[1964]])
* [[November 12]] - [[Guo Moruo]], Chinese author and poet (d. [[1978]])
* [[November 16]] - [[Tazio Nuvolari]], Italian racing driver (d. [[1953]])
* [[November 22]] - [[Emma Tillman]], briefly the world's oldest living person and last verified person born in 1892 (d. [[2007]])
* [[December 2]] - [[Leo Ornstein]], Russian-born composer and pianist (d. [[2002]])
* [[December 4]] - [[Francisco Franco]], Spanish dictator (d. [[1975]])
* [[December 5]] - [[Cyril Ring]], American film actor (d. [[1967]])
* [[December 6]] - [[Osbert Sitwell]], English writer (d. [[1969]])
* [[December 8]] - [[Bert Hinkler]], Australian pioneer aviator (d. [[1933]])
* [[December 12]] - [[Herman Potocnik|Herman Potočnik Noordung]], Slovenian rocket engineer (d. [[1929]])
* [[December 21]] - [[Amy Key Clarke]], English mystical poet (d. [[1980]])
* [[December 27]] - [[Alfred Edwin McKay]], Canadian WWI flying ace (d. [[1917]])
*''date unknown'' - [[Gerald Haxton]], secretary and lover of [[W. Somerset Maugham]] (d. [[1944]])
: ''See also [[:Category: 1892 births]].''
==Deaths==
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* [[January 14]] - [[Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence]], second in line for the throne of the United Kingdom (b. [[1864]])
* [[January 21]] - [[John Couch Adams]], English astronomer (b. [[1819]])
* [[January 31]] - [[Charles Spurgeon]], English preacher (b. [[1834]])
*[[February 5]] - [[Emilie Flygare-Carlén]], Swedish novelist (b. [[1807]])
*[[February 27]] - [[Louis Vuitton]], world-renowned French fashion designer (b. [[1821]])
* [[March 13]] - [[Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine]]
* [[March 16]] - [[Samuel F. Miller (US politician)|Samuel F. Miller]], American politician (b. [[1827]])
* [[March 26]] - [[Walt Whitman]], American poet (b. [[1819]])
*[[April 4]] - [[José María Castro Madriz]], President of Costa Rica (b. [[1818]])
* [[April 19]] - [[T. Pelham Dale|Fr. Thomas Pelham Dale]] [[Society of the Holy Cross|SSC]], [[Anglo-Catholic]] [[clergyman]] prosecuted for [[Ritualism|Ritualist]] practices in the [[1870s]] (b. [[1821]])
* [[April 22]] - [[Edouard Lalo]], French composer (b. [[1823]])
* [[April 25]] - [[William Backhouse Astor, Jr.]], American businessman (b. [[1830]])
* [[April 26]] - Sir [[Provo Wallis|Provo William Perry Wallis]], British admiral and naval hero
* [[May 22]] - [[Alexander Campbell]], Canadian politician (b.1822)
* [[May 29]] - [[Bahá'u'lláh]], Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (b. [[1817]])
* [[June 9]] - [[William Grant Stairs]], Canadian explorer (b. [[1863]])
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*[[July 30]] - [[Count Joseph Alexander Hübner]], Austrian diplomat (b. [[1811]])
* [[October 12]] - [[Ernest Renan]], French philologist and historian (b. [[1823]])
* [[October 23]] - [[Emin Pasha]], German doctor and Governor of Equatoria (b. [[1840]]
*[[October 24]] - [[Mir-Fatah-Agha]], Shiite cleric
* [[October 25]] - [[Caroline Harrison]], wife of President [[Benjamin Harrison]] (b. [[1832]])
* [[December 2]] - [[Jay Gould]], American financier (b. [[1836]])
* [[December 6]] - [[Werner von Siemens]], German inventor and industrialist (b. [[1816]])
* [[December 11]] - [[William Milligan]], Scottish theologian (b. [[1821]])
*''date unknown'' - [[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]], Tibetan teacher (b. [[1820]])
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: ''See also [[:Category: 1892 deaths]].''
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