1892

Years: 1889 1890 1891 - 1892 - 1893 1894 1895
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1892 in art 1892 in film 1892 in literature 1892 in music 1890 in science 1892 in sports List of state leaders in 1892 List of religious leaders in 1892

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

January 1 - Ellis Island begins accepting immigrants to the United States.
January 14 - Death of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, second in line heir to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Next in line is his younger brother Prince George of Wales.
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.
March 13 - Ernest Louis, a grandson of Queen Victoria becomes Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine on the death of his father, Grand Duke Louis IV.
May 7 - The Cook Islands issue their first postage stamps.
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.
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
July 4-18 British general election: Unionist government loses its majority.
August 4 - The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
August 9 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
August 18 - William Ewart Gladstone assumes British premiership at head of Liberal government with Irish Nationalist Party support.
September 15 - Sergei Witte replaces Ivan Vishnegradksy as Russian finance minister.
October 12 - To mark 400 anniversary Columbus Day holiday, the "Pledge of Allegiance" was first recited in unison by students in US public schools.
October 31 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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.
November 8 ÃÂ Anarchist bomb kills six in police station in Avenue de l'Opera, Paris
November 17 - French troops occupy Abomey, capital of kingdom of Dahomey.
December 5 - John Thompson becomes Canada's fourth prime minister.
Last open land rush is held in Oklahoma.
The Stanley Cup is donated by Sir Frederick Arthur.
Pennsauken is incorporated.
Rudolf Diesel patents the diesel engine.
Oil fire rages in Oil City, Pennsylvania ÃÂ 130 dead
Cholera in Hamburg, Germany
Tortoise called Timothy brought to the estate of Powderham Castle in England (allegedly alive as of 2001 - at least 148 years old)

Births

January 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British author (d. 1973)
January 14 - Hal Roach, film producer (d. 1992)
January 15 - Rex Ingram, director, writer (d. 1950)
January 18 - Oliver Hardy, comedian, actor (d. 1957)
January 26 ÃÂ Bessie Coleman, first licensed African-American female pilot (d. 1926)
January 28 - Ernst Lubitsch, film director (d. 1947)
January 31 - Eddie Cantor, actor, singer (d. 1964)
February 13 - Grant Wood, painter (d. 1942)
February 15 - James Forrestal, first United States Secretary of Defense (d. 1949)
February 18 - Wendell Wilkie, politician, Presidential candidate (d. 1944)
February 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer (d. 1950)
February 27 - William Demarest, actor (d. 1983)
March 10 - Arthur Honegger, composer (d. 1955)
March 10 - Gregory La Cava, director, producer, writer (d. 1952)
March 30 - Stefan Banach, great Polish mathematician (d. 1945)
March 11 - Raoul Walsh, film director (d. 1980)
April 2 - Jack Warner, Hollywood studio founder (d. 1978)
April 6 - Donald Wills Douglas, American industrialist (d. 1981)
April 6 - Lowell Thomas, travel writer (d. 1981)
April 8 - Mary Pickford, actress, studio founder (d. 1979)
April 12 - Johnny Dodds, jazz musician (d. 1940)
April 19 - Germaine Tailleferre, composer
May 7 - Archibald MacLeish, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1982)
May 7 - Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia (d. 1980)
May 8 - Ezio Pinza, opera singer (d. 1957)
May 9 - Zita of Bourbon-Parma, empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989)
May 11 - Margaret Rutherford, actress (d. 1972)
May 12 - Fritz Kortner, director
May 18 - Pops Foster, jazz musician (assumed birthdate) (d. 1969)
May 31 - Michel Kikoine, Belarus painter (d. 1968)
July 23 - Haile Selassie I, Ethiopian emperor (d. 1975)
September 4 - Darius Milhaud, composer
October 9 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet
October 23 - Gummo Marx, actor, comedian, Marx brothers (d. 1977)
October 28 - Dink Johnson, jazz musician (d. 1954)
October 31 - Alexander Alekhine, chess champion
November 5 - J. B. S. Haldane, British geneticist
December 2 - Leo Ornstein, composer and pianist (d. 2002)
December 4 - Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator, 1939 - 1975
December 8 - Bert Hinkler, Australian pioneer aviator. (d. 1933)
December 12 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovene astronautic pioneer and rocket engineer (d. 1929)
Ernest Brastins born in Latvia, religious leader (Dievturiba)
Bruno Schulz - Polish writer and painter

Deaths

January 14 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, second in line heir to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
January 21 - John Couch Adams, astronomer
January 31 - Charles Spurgeon
February 11 - Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer
March 13 - Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and the Rhine
March 26 - Walt Whitman, American poet
April 25 - William Backhouse Astor, Jr, member of the Astor family
April 26 - Sir Provo William Perry Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero
May 29 - Bahaullah, Prophet-Founder of the BahÃÂ¡'ÃÂ Faith
June 9 - William Stairs, Victorian explorer
October 12 - Ernest Renan, French philologist and historian.
October 23 - Emin Pasha, German doctor, naturalist to Africa
December 2 - Jay Gould, American financier
December 6 - Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist