1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year that started 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). [edit] Events of 1892 [edit] January–March [edit] April–June - April – The Johnson County War breaks out between small farmers and large ranchers in Wyoming.
- April 1 – The city of Maebashi is founded 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 – Battle of Yemoja River: British troops defeat Ijebu infantry in modern-day Nigeria, using a maxim gun.
- May 22 – The British conquest of Ijebu-Ode marks a major extension of colonial power into the 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 T. Abercrombie.
- June 7 – Homer Plessy (who is black) is arrested for sitting on the whites-only car in Louisiana, leading to the 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.
[edit] July–September [edit] October–December [edit] 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 defeats Montreal 45–5).
- The Stanley Cup is donated by Sir Frederick Stanley.
- An oil fire in Oil City, Pennsylvania kills 130.
- A cholera outbreak occurs in Hamburg, Germany.
- A tortoise called Timothy is brought to the estate of Powderham Castle in England, where she lives 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, is founded by Charles Gore and Walter Frere.
- Viruses are discovered by the Russian–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, the "father of hang gliding", sketches a monoplane hang glider that involves the A-frame triangular control frame (TCF) that double functions as a kingpost.
- Worthington, Ontario, Canada is incorporated as a mining community.
[edit] Births [edit] 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 26 – Zara Cully, American actress (d. 1978)
- 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 Willkie, U.S. Republican presidential candidate (d. 1944)
- February 21 – Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d. 1949)
- February 22 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American writer (d. 1950)
- February 24 – Konstantin Fedin, Russian writer (d. 1977)
- February 27 – William Demarest, American actor (d. 1983)
- March 9 – Victoria Mary Sackville-West, English writer, and gardener (d. 1962)
- 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 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 World War I fighter pilot (d. 1918)
- May 3 – George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
- May 7 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet (d. 1982)
- 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 25 – Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (d. 1980)
- May 26 – Maxwell Bodenheim, American poet and novelist (d. 1954)
- May 30 – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972)
- May 31 – Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (d. 1968)
- June 1 – Amanullah Khan, ruler of Afghanistan (d. 1960)
- June 15 – Wallace Wade, American football coach, University of Alabama, Duke University (d. 1986)
- 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 S.S. officer (d. 1951)
[edit] July–December - July 6 – Willy Coppens, Belgian World War I flying ace (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 6 – Jackie Saunders, silent movie actress (d. 1954)
- 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 27 – Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian writer (d. 1953)
- 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. 1957)
- November 9 – Erich Auerbach, German philologist (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 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 I flying ace (d. 1917)
- December 31 – Stanley Price, American film and television actor (d. 1955)
- date unknown – Gerald Haxton, secretary and lover of W. Somerset Maugham (d. 1944)
- See also Category: 1892 births.
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 12 – William Reeves, Irish antiquarian (b. 1815)
- 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, 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 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)
[edit] July–December - July 30 – Count Joseph Alexander Hübner, Austrian diplomat (b. 1811)
- September 7 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist (b. 1807)
- 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.
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