1892 34793 223859831 2008-07-06T05:14:28Z 71.220.49.33 /* January - March */ {{year nav|1892}} {{C19YearInTopicX}} 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]]). <!-- 12-day span=Mon-Sat,Tue-Sun,Wed-Mon,Thu-Tue,Fr-We,Sa-Th,Sun-Fri --> == Events of 1892 == ===January - March=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> [[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=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * 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=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> [[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]. <!--AUGUST--> * [[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. <!--SEPTEMBER--> * [[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=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> [[Image:Daltongang.jpg|thumb|160px|right|[[October 5]]: [[Dalton Gang]].]] [[Image:Holmes by Paget.jpg |thumb|160px|right| [[October 31|Oct.31]]: "[[Sherlock Holmes]]"]] * [[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]]''. <!--NOVEMBER--> * [[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]]. <!--DECEMBER--> * [[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]].]] <br> [[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. <br> ==Births== {{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Meiji period|Meiji]] 25}} ===January - June=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[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]]) ===July - December=== <!-- BIRTHS --> <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[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== ===January - June=== <!-- DEATHS --> <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[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]]) ===July - December=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[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]]) {{commonscat}} : ''See also [[:Category: 1892 deaths]].'' 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