1892

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Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

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).

Contents 1 Events of 1892 1.1 January - March 1.2 April - June 1.3 July - September 1.4 October - December 1.5 Undated 2 Births 2.1 January - June 2.2 July - December 3 Deaths 3.1 January - June 3.2 July - December

[edit] Events of 1892

[edit] January - March

• January 1 - Ellis Island begins accepting immigrants to the United States.
• January 2 - Gordon Duffley dies from injuries to the pancreas.
• January 3 - J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, is born.
• 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 - 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.
• March 15 - Liverpool Football Club founded by John Houlding, the owner of Anfield. Houlding decided to form his own team after Everton left Anfield in an argument over rent.
• March 20 - The first ever French rugby championship final takes place in Paris. Pierre de Coubertin referees the match, which Racing Club de France wins 4-3 over 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] July - September

• 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 occurred twice.
• July 4-18 British general election: 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 detectives from New York and Chicago resulted in a fight in which about 10 men were killed.
• July 8 - The Great Fire of 1892 devastated the city of St. John's, Newfoundland, and is remembered as the worst disaster in Newfoundland history.
• 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 Saint Gervais.
• 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 telegraph.
• August 18 - William Ewart Gladstone assumes British premiership at head of Liberal government with Irish Nationalist Party support.

• September 3 - Nottingham Forest Football Club played their first league match, it was a 2-2 draw with Everton FC.
• September 15 - Sergei Witte replaces Ivan Vyshnegradsky as Russian finance minister.

[edit] October - December

• 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, Belgium during an attempted robbery of a money delivery cart.
• October 21 - 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.
  • Anarchist bomb kills six in police station in Avenue de l'Opera, Paris
  • The four-day New Orleans General Strike begins.
• November 17 - French troops occupy Abomey, capital of kingdom of Dahomey.
• December 5 - John Thompson becomes Canada's fourth 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.

[edit] Undated

• 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.

[edit] Births

1892 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1892 MDCCCXCII
Ab urbe condita	2645
Armenian calendar	1341 ԹՎ ՌՅԽԱ
Bahá'í calendar	48 – 49
Berber calendar	2842
Buddhist calendar	2436
Burmese calendar	1254
Chinese calendar	4528/4588-12-2 (辛卯年十二月初二日) — to — 4529/4589-11-13 (壬辰年十一月十三日)
Coptic calendar	1608 – 1609
Ethiopian calendar	1884 – 1885
Hebrew calendar	5652 – 5653
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1947 – 1948
- Shaka Samvat	1814 – 1815
- Kali Yuga	4993 – 4994
Holocene calendar	11892
Iranian calendar	1270 – 1271
Islamic calendar	1309 – 1310
Japanese calendar	Meiji 25 (明治25年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2552 (皇紀2552年)
Julian calendar	1937
Korean calendar	4225
Thai solar calendar	2435
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[edit] January - June

• 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 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
  • 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 laureate (d. 1968)
• March 30 - Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician (d. 1945)
• April 6
  • 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 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
  • 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 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)

[edit] 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)
• 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 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.

[edit] Deaths

[edit] 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)

[edit] July - December

• 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)

See also Category: 1892 deaths.af:1892

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