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the 1892 farce Charley's Aunt has been the basis of at least six different films, as well as the successful 1950s Broadway and West End musical, Where's Charley?
despite apparently predicting that future naval warfare would rely on boarding actions, Kipling's satirical poem The Ballad of the "Clampherdown", was taken seriously when published in 1892?
Wyoming Seminary, a private school in Kingston, Pennsylvania, participated in the first nighttime American football game in 1892?
Abercrombie & Fitch was founded in 1892 and originally sold hunting, camping and fishing gear?
11 of the 13 members of the Hong Kong cricket team died when their steamship, SS Bokhara, was lost in a typhoon in 1892?

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s – 1890s – 1900s 1910s 1920s
Years:	1889 1890 1891 – 1892 – 1893 1894 1895

1892 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
Sports – Rail Transport
Countries: Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Ireland – Mexico – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – South Africa – Spain – UK – USA
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

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).

1 Events of 1892
2 Undated
3 Births
- 3.1 January–June
- 3.2 July–December
4 Deaths
- 4.1 January–June
- 4.2 July–December

Events of 1892

January–March

February 27: Rudolf Diesel's patent.

January 1 – Ellis Island begins accommodating 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 18 – Pennsauken Township, New Jersey is incorporated.
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 – The Liverpool Football Club is founded by John Houlding, the owner of Anfield. Houlding decides to form his own team after Everton leaves 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 is formally opened by the Buenos Aires Chief of Police; it had been operating unofficially since the previous year.

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.

July–September

July 4 Samoa: Samoa changes its time zone to being 3 hours behind California, such that it crosses the international date line and July 4th occurs twice.
July 4–18 British general election: The Unionist government loses its majority.
July 6
- Dr. Jose Rizal, Filipino writer, philosopher, and political activist is arrested by Spanish authorities in connection with La Liga Filipina.
- Homestead Strike: The arrival of a force of 300 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.
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.
July 13 – United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property (UIBPIP or BIRPI).
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 – The Nottingham Forest Football Club plays their first league match, a 2–2 draw with Everton FC.
September 15 – Sergei Witte replaces Ivan Vyshnegradsky as Russian finance minister.

October–December

October 5: Dalton Gang.

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, Belgium during an attempted robbery of a money delivery cart.
October 12 – To mark the 400th anniversary Columbus Day holiday, the "Pledge of Allegiance" is first recited in unison by students in U.S. public schools.
October 31 – Sir 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.
- An anarchist bomb kills 6 in a police station in Avenue de l'Opera, Paris.
- The four-day New Orleans General Strike begins.
November 17 – French troops occupy Abomey, capital of the kingdom of Dahomey.
December 5 – John Thompson becomes Canada's fourth prime minister.
December 22 – The Newcastle East End F.C. is renamed Newcastle United F.C., following the demise of the Newcastle West End F.C. and East End's move to St James' Park, formerly West End's home.
December 25 – Christmas Day, Formation of the Kool-Squad Leaders

Stanley Cup.

Otto Lilienthal sketches key 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.
Inter-Parliamentary Bureau for Permanent Arbitration
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.

Births

**1892 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1892 MDCCCXCII
Ab urbe condita	2645
Armenian calendar	1341 ԹՎ ՌՅԽԱ
Bahá'í calendar	48 – 49
Bengali calendar	1299
Berber calendar	2842
Buddhist calendar	2436
Burmese calendar	1254
Byzantine calendar	7400 – 7401
Chinese calendar	辛卯年十二月初二日 (4528/4588-12-2) — to — 壬辰年十一月十三日 (4529/4589-11-13)
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)
Korean calendar	4225
Thai solar calendar	2435

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 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
- 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 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 5 – Rajarsi Janakananda, A leading disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda. (d. 1955)
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)

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.

Deaths

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)

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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Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s
Years:	1889 1890 1891 - 1892 - 1893 1894 1895

1892 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture -
Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science
Sports - Rail Transport
Countries: Australia - Canada - France - Germany - Ireland - Mexico - New Zealand - Norway - South Africa - UK - USA
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
Births - Marriages - Deaths

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).

1 Events of 1892
2 Births
- 2.1 January - June
- 2.2 July - December
3 Deaths
- 3.1 January - June
- 3.2 July - December
4 People of the year 1892 at Familypedia
5 Events of the year 1892 at Familypedia

Events of 1892

January - March

February 27: Rudolf Diesel's patent.

January 1 - Ellis Island begins accepting immigrants to the United States.
January 15 - James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball.
January 20 - At the YMCA in Springfield, 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.

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,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, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
June 4 - Abercrombie & Fitch is established by David Abercrombie.
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, culminating in a battle between striking workers and private security agents on July 6.

July - September

July 12: Mont Blanc.

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 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.

October - December

October 5: Dalton Gang.

Oct.31: "Sherlock Holmes"

October 5
- The Dalton Gang, attempting to rob 2 banks in Coffeyville, 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: 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.

Stanley Cup.

Undated

The Stanley Cup is donated by Sir Frederick Stanley.
Pennsauken is incorporated.
Oil fire rages in Oil City: 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.

Births

**1892 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1892 MDCCCXCII
Ab urbe condita	2645
Armenian calendar	1341 ԹՎ ՌՅԽԱ
Bahá'í calendar	48 – 49
Buddhist calendar	2436
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

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 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)

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, 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 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 1892 births.

Deaths

January - June

January 14 - Prince Albert Victor, 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
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, 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

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)

People of the year 1892 at Familypedia

36 people were born in 1892

	Father	Mother	Age mother at birth
Alice May Avard (1892-1954)	David John Avard (1865-1944)	Martha Jane Wright (1871-1940)
Ella Grace Avery (1892-c1968)	William Avery (1862-1934)	Sarah Jane Thompson (1869-1941)
Merle Hayes Bennett (1892-1973)	Charles F Bennett (1856-1944)	Edith Althea Jenkins (1867-c1950)
Agatha C.B. Bleyendaal (1892-1927)	Cornelis Bleyendaal (?-?)	Antje Schilder (?-?)
Lucy Muriel Bray (1892-aft1918)	Edward Charles Bray (1857-1942)	Lucy Muriel Howard (1872-1963)	2020
Eric Manning Bulley (1892-1947)	George Bulley (1869-1919)	Louisa Amelia Everingham (1868-1944)	2424
William Clayton Casto (1892-?)	Joseph Casto	Ellen Carter
Antonina Curione (1892-aft1914)	Santo Curione (?-?)
Albert Eggins (1892-1957)	William James Eggins (1862-1946)	Minnie McWhirter (1865-1938)
Josiah Rupert Eldridge (1892-1970)	James Jury Eldridge (1845-1918)	Matilda Sophia Payne (1850-1921)
Victor Ernest Everingham (1892-1965)	Sydney Ernest Everingham (1865-1944)	Elizabeth Marion Bulley (1871-1936)	2121
Cornelius Faint (1892-1973)	Thomas John Faint (1860-1933)	Mary Jane Kelly (1864-1943)
Olive Beatrice Gillies (1892-1986)	Duncan Gillies (1846-1933)	Alice Ann Bath (1857-1925)	3535
Lilian May Green (1892-1979)	John Green (1870-1940)	Isabella Blackman (1866-1949)	2626
Joseph Harold Harding (1892-1981)	Joseph D Harding (1861-?)	Ida Pearl (1855-1906)	3737
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4 children were born to the 19 women born in 1892

34 people died in 1892

	Father	Mother	Age at death
Herbert John Austin (1891-1892)	Frank Urquhart Austin (c1854-1916)	Catherine Levingston (1856-1942)	11
John Buckingham (1828-1892)	Allen Buckingham (1802-1882)	Mary (1802-1887)	6464
Louisa Emily Charlotte Bulteel (1839-1892)	John Crocker Bulteel (1790-1843)	Elizabeth Grey (1798-1880)	5353
Anna Bunch (1814-1892)	Nathaniel Bunch (1793-1859)	Sarah Wade Ray (c1793-?)	7878
John Bunch (1812-1892)	Nathaniel Bunch (1793-1859)	Sarah Wade Ray (c1793-?)	8080
Mary Anne Cutbush (1816-1892)	Isaac Cutbush (1789-1824)	Susannah Maria (1790-1822)	7676
George Spencer Geer (1836)	Gilbert Geer (1795)	Adna Spencer (c1801)	5656
James W Woolsey (1887-1892)	James Buchanan Woolsey (1856-1938)	Grace Anna Barber (1863-1939)
Hannah Landis (1845-1892)	John B. Landis (1814-1896)	Ann Hunsicker (1817-1897)	4747
Henry Thynne Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood (1824-1892)	Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood (1797-1857)	Louisa Thynne (1801-1859)	6868
William Henry Lees (c1834-c1892)	William Lees (c1805-?)	Sarah Unknown (c1806-?)	5858
Joseph Levingston (1817-1892)	John Levingston (1772-1850)	Jane Berne (1793-1865)	7575
James Robert Macleay (1811-1892)	Alexander McLeay (1767-1848)	Elizabeth Barclay (?-1847)	8181
Susannah Morris (1848-1892)	John Morris (1826-1896)	Maria Collits (c1824-1888)	4444
John Newell (1811-1892)	Anthony Newell (?-?)	Esther McDowell (?-?)	8181
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2154 people lived in 1892

	Father	Mother
Edward VII of the United Kingdom (1841-1910)	Albert von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1819-1861)	Victoria of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)
George V of the United Kingdom (1865-1936)	Edward VII of the United Kingdom (1841-1910)	Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925)
Katidjah (1882-1922)
Victoria of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)	Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767-1820)	Viktoria von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786-1861)
Geertje Aangeenbrug (1871-1947)	Pieter Aangeenbrug 1834-1908
Pieter Aangeenbrug (1834-1908)	Cornelis Aangeenbrug 1802-1861
Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema (1815-1897)	Henricus Nicolaas Adama van Scheltema (1786-1870)	Madelaine Petronelle Perrenoud (1785-1816)
Henricus Adama van Scheltema (1840-1924)	Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema (1815-1897)	Hendrika Jacoba Stokhuijzen (1816-1872)
Jan Dirk Adama van Scheltema (1870-1925)	Henricus Adama van Scheltema (1840-1924)	Catharina Cochius (1846-1933)
Mary Ann Adams (1831-1903)	John Adams (c1797-1859)	Sarah Bankin (1813-1878)
Charles Ahrens (c1849-c1935)	Heinrich Ahrens (c1815-1891)	Sophia Fischer (c1826-1886)
Frederika Ahrens (c1866-1940)	Heinrich Ahrens (c1815-1891)	Sophia Fischer (c1826-1886)
George Ahrens (c1886-1970)	Charles Ahrens (c1849-c1935)	Elizabeth T Turner (?-?)
Harriet Ahrens (c1860-1903)	Heinrich Ahrens (c1815-1891)	Sophia Fischer (c1826-1886)
Mena Ahrens (c1863-c1897)	Heinrich Ahrens (c1815-1891)	Sophia Fischer (c1826-1886)
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Events of the year 1892 at Familypedia

26 people were married in 1892.

	Joined with
Edward Charles Bray (1857-1942)	Lucy Muriel Howard (1872-1963)
Augustus Hugh Brewer (c1865-1936)	Emily Lavinia Geaney (c1872-1949)
Elizabeth Hannah Cox (1840-1905)	Thomas James Parnell (?-?)+Peter Davis (1826-1911)
Peter Davis (1826-1911)	Mary Cox (1830-1890)+Elizabeth Hannah Cox (1840-1905)
Florence Tamar Eldridge (1871-1962)	William John Piercy (1865-1934)
Susannah Jane Fernance (1849-?)	Alfred Sydney Huddy Perry (1837-?)+Herbert Foster (?-?)
Susannah Jane Fernance (1863-c1954)	Alfred Sydney Huddy Perry (1862-c1942)+Herbert R Foster (1866-?)
Thomas Stonewall Jackson Gore (1863-1937)	Laura Pollard (1862-1933)
Alexander Harrington (1835-aft1920)	Roxanna Ann Waite (1840-1885)+Reilla Harriston (1872-aft1910)
William Daniel Harrington (1872-1960)	Emma Gertrude Wheeler (1867-1929)
Reilla Harriston (1872-aft1910)	Alexander Harrington (1835-aft1920)
Lucy Muriel Howard (1872-1963)	Edward Charles Bray (1857-1942)
Addie C. Jackman (1861-1937)	John George Kolstee (1856-1925)
Allan Kell (1863-1945)	Catherine Ellen Scott (1869-1946)
Helen Russell Kell (c1863-c1950)	Henry Joseph Cleasby (bef1877-c1905)
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There were 0 military battles in 1892.

See also 1892 deaths.

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Deaths	34 +
Fertility	0.211 +
Mortality	0.0158 +
People	2,154 +
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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
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