1892

1892
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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

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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 - 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 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.

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 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.

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.