Year 1892 (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).
Events of 1892
April - June
- 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,USA is founded.
- May 7 - The Cook Islands issue their first postage stamps.
- May 19 - British troops defeat Ijebu infantry at the Battle of Yemoja River, in modern-day Nigeria, using a maxim gun.
- May 22 - British conquest of Ijebu-Ode marks major extension of colonial power into Nigerian interior.
- May 24 - 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 is arrested for sitting on the white car in Louisiana.
- June 11 - The Limelight Department, 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
October - December
Undated
- Andrew Carnegie combined 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.
- Pennsauken is incorporated.
- Oil fire rages in Oil City, Pennsylvania: 130 dead.
- Cholera outbreak occurs in Hamburg, Germany.
- A tortoise called Timothy is brought to the estate of Powderham Castle in England where she lived until her death in 2004.
- Abu Dhabi becomes a British protectorate.
- The 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 community for men, was founded by Charles Gore and Walter Frere.
- Viruses discovered by the Russian-Ukrainian biologist Dimitri Ivanovski.
- Thomas Ahearn was the first person to prepare a meal on an electric stove.
- The very first electric light bulb in Bulgaria brought light to the Plovdiv Fair.
- Otto Lilienthal, "father of hang gliding" sketches a monoplane hang glider that involved the A-frame triangular control frame (TCF) that double functioned as a kingpost.
- Worthington, Ontario, Canada was incorporated as a mining community in 1892, near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
Births
The last documented living person born in 1892 was Emma Tillman, who died on January 28, 2007 at the age of 114.
January - June
- January 1
- January 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien, professor and author of The Lord of the Rings (d. 1973)
- January 14
- January 18
- 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 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 10
- March 28 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
- March 30 - Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician (d. 1945)
- April 6
- 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 the RADAR (d.December 5, 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 fighter pilot (d. 1918)
- May 3 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
- May 7
- 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 - Emery G. Goldburg, Fictional character in the novel, The Osireion. By Cody Gentry (d.unknown)
- 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 laureate (d. 1973)
- June 30 - Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (d. 1951)
July - December
- July 6 - Willy Coppens, Belgium flying ace from WWI (d. 1986)
- July 8 - Richard Aldington, English poet (d. 1962)
- July 11 - 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)
- July 30 - Enes Pasha(Stavro),Turkish and Soviet revolutionary (d. 1975)
- 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 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 laureate (d. 1965)
- September 10 - Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
- September 12 - Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (d. 1984)
- October 7 - Dwain Esper, Director (d. 1982)
- October 9 - Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, 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 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 (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 Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket engineer (d. 1929)
- December 21 - Amy Key Clarke, English mystical poet (d. 1980)
- December 27 - Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (d. 1917)
- date unknown - Gerald Haxton, secretary and lover of the famous novelist and playwright W. Somerset Maugham (d. 1944)
- See also Category: 1892 births.
Deaths
January - June
- 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)
- March 13 - Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
- March 16 - 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 - Fr. Thomas Pelham Dale SSC, Anglo-Catholic clergyman prosecuted for 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 William Perry Wallis, British admiral and naval hero
- 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
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