Editing 1892 (section)

== Events ==

=== January–March ===
* [[January 1]] – [[Ellis Island]] begins processing [[Immigration to the United States|immigrants to the United States]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Harlan D. Unrau|title=Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty National Monument, New York-New Jersey|publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service|year=1984|page=208}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] – [[Rudolf Diesel]] applies for a patent, on his compression ignition engine (the [[Diesel engine]]).
* [[February 29]] – [[St. Petersburg, Florida]] is incorporated as a town.
* [[March 1]] – [[Theodoros Deligiannis]] ends his term as [[Prime Minister of Greece]] and [[Konstantinos Konstantopoulos]] takes office.
* [[March 6]]–[[March 8|8]] – "Exclusive Agreement": Rulers of the [[Trucial States]] ([[Abu Dhabi]], [[Dubai]], [[Sharjah]], [[Ajman]], [[Ras al-Khaimah]] and [[Umm al-Quwain]]) sign an agreement, by which they become ''de facto'' [[British protectorate]]s.
* [[March 11]] – The first [[basketball]] game is played in public, between students and faculty at the Springfield YMCA before 200 spectators.<ref name=Republican>{{cite news | title = Basket Football Game | newspaper = Springfield Republican | location = [[Springfield, Massachusetts]] | date = March 12, 1892 | url = http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/206238 | access-date = June 9, 2014}}</ref> The final score is 5–1 in favor of the students, with the only goal for the faculty being scored by [[Amos Alonzo Stagg]].<ref name=Republican/>
* [[March 13]] – [[Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine|Ernest Louis]], a grandson of [[Queen Victoria]], becomes [[Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine]] on the death of his father, [[Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine|Grand Duke Louis IV]].
* [[March 15]]
** The [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool Football Club]] is founded in England by [[John Houlding]], the owner of [[Anfield]]; Houlding decides to form his own team after [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] leaves Anfield, in an argument over rent.
** [[Jesse W. Reno]] patents the first [[escalator]], installed at [[Coney Island]].
* [[March 17]] – The [[St. Patrick's Day Snowstorm]] besieges [[Tennessee]] with upwards of 26 inches of snow, establishing accumulation records that still stand.
* [[March 18]] – Sir [[Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby|Frederick Stanley]], Governor General of Canada, announces his intention to donate the [[Stanley Cup]] for ice hockey.
* [[March 20]] – The first ever [[Top 14|French rugby championship]] final takes place in Paris. [[Pierre de Coubertin]] referees the match, which [[Racing Métro 92 Paris|Racing Club de France]] wins 4–3 over [[Stade Français Paris|Stade Français]].
* [[March 31]] – The world's first [[fingerprinting]] bureau is formally opened by the [[Buenos Aires]] Chief of Police; it has been operating unofficially since the previous year.
[[File:Lumbar patent dieselengine.jpg|thumb|[[February 27]]: [[Rudolf Diesel]]'s patent.]]

=== April–June ===
* [[April]] – The [[Johnson County War]] breaks out between small farmers and large ranchers in [[Wyoming]].
* [[April 15]] – The [[General Electric]] Company is established through the merger of the [[Thomson-Houston Electric Company]] and the Edison General Electric Company.
* [[May 19]] – Battle of Yemoja River: British troops defeat [[Ijebu Kingdom|Ijebu]] infantry in modern-day [[Nigeria]], using a [[maxim gun]].
* [[May 20]] – The last [[broad gauge]] train runs from [[Paddington]] on the [[Great Western Railway]] of England.
* [[May 22]] – The British conquest of [[Ijebu Ode]] marks a major extension of colonial power into the [[Nigeria]]n interior.
* [[May 24]] – Prince George (later [[George V of the United Kingdom]]) becomes [[Duke of York]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Fryde | first = E. B. | title = Handbook of British chronology | publisher = New York Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521563505 | page=48}}</ref>
* [[June 5]] – An oil fire in [[Oil City, Pennsylvania]], United States, kills 130 people.
* [[June 6]] – The [[Chicago "L"]] begins operation for the first time with the opening of the [[South Side Elevated Railroad|Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad]].
* [[June 7]] – [[Homer Plessy]], a mixed-race man, is arrested for deliberately sitting in a whites-only railroad car in Louisiana, leading to the landmark United States Supreme Court decision ''[[Plessy v. Ferguson]]'', which legitimized "[[separate but equal]]" [[racial segregation in the United States]].
* [[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]] changes its time zone from 4 hours ahead of [[Imperial Japan|Japan]] to being 3 hours behind California, such that it crosses the International Date Line, and Monday, July 4 occurs twice.
* [[July 4]]–[[July 18|18]] – [[1892 United Kingdom general election|British general election]]: The [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] and [[Liberal Unionist]] coalition government loses its majority in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]], eventually leading to [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Lord Salisbury]]'s resignation on [[August 12]].
* [[July 6]]
** Dr. [[José 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 National Detective Agency|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|St. John's, Newfoundland]].
* [[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-les-Bains]].
* [[July 13]] – The United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property (UIBPIP or [[BIRPI]]) is established in Bern, Switzerland.
* [[July 16]] – [[Queen Victoria]] meets with [[Martha Ann Ricks]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Vincent |first=Benjamin |title=Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information |publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons |year=1911 |edition=25th |location=New York |pages=824}}</ref>
* [[July 25]] – The [[Community of the Resurrection]], an [[Anglican religious order|Anglican religious community]] for men, is founded by [[Charles Gore]] and Walter Frere, initially in Oxford.
* [[August 4]]
** The father and stepmother of [[Lizzie Borden]] are found murdered in their [[Fall River, Massachusetts]] home; she will be acquitted of their murder.
* [[August 9]] – [[Thomas Edison]] receives a [[patent]] for a two-way [[Telegraphy|telegraph]].
* [[August 15]] – [[Valparaíso]], [[Chile]] founds its first football team, [[Santiago Wanderers]].
* [[August 18]] – [[William Ewart Gladstone]] assumes the U.K. premiership, as head of the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] government, with [[Irish Nationalist Party]] support.
* [[September 8]] – [[Pledge of Allegiance (United States)|The Pledge of Allegiance]] is first recited in the United States.
* [[September 9]] – [[Amalthea (moon)|Amalthea]], the fifth moon of [[Jupiter]], is discovered by [[Edward Emerson Barnard]].
* [[September 15]] – [[Sergei Witte]] replaces [[Ivan Vyshnegradsky]], as Russian finance minister.
* [[September]] – Women are first admitted to Yale University's graduate school.

=== October–December ===
* [[October 1]] – The [[University of Chicago]] holds its first classes.
[[File:Daltongang.jpg|thumb|[[October 5]]: [[Dalton Gang]].]]
[[File:Holmes by Paget.jpg|thumb|[[October 31|Oct.31]]: "[[Sherlock Holmes]]"]]
* [[October 5]]
** The [[Dalton Gang]], attempting to rob two 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 (United States)|Pledge of Allegiance]]" is first recited in unison by students in U.S. [[Public school (government funded)|public school]]s.
* [[October 30]] – The [[Historical American Exposition]] opens in Madrid.
* [[October 31]] – The first collection of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories from ''[[The Strand Magazine]]'', ''[[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]]'', is published in London.
* [[November 2]] – The first football club in Bohemia, [[SK Slavia Prague|Slavia Praha]] is established, originally under name of Akademický cyklistický odbor Slavia (A.C.O.S.), focusing on cycling.
* [[November 8]]
** [[1892 United States presidential election]]: [[Grover Cleveland]] is elected over [[Benjamin Harrison]] and [[James B. Weaver]], to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
** An [[anarchist]] bomb kills six in a police station in [[Avenue de l'Opéra]], Paris.
** The four-day [[New Orleans General Strike]] begins.
* [[November 17]] – French troops occupy [[Abomey]], capital of the kingdom of [[Dahomey]].
* [[November 24]] – The Hotel Zinzendorf catches fire in the city of [[Winston-Salem, North Carolina]]; 45 people die.
* [[December 5]] – [[John Sparrow David Thompson|John Thompson]] becomes Canada's fourth [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]].
* [[December 17]] – First issue of ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' is published in the United States.
* [[December 18]] – ''[[The Nutcracker]]'' [[ballet]], with music by [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]], is premiered at the [[Mariinsky Theatre|Imperial Mariinsky Theatre]] in [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia.
* [[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, in the [[North East England|north east of England]].

=== Date unknown ===
* Diplomat [[Henry Galway]] secures a treaty by which [[Ovonramwen]], [[Oba of Benin]], ostensibly accepts British protection for his kingdom.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Igbafe|first=Philip A. |author-link=Philip Igbafe |year=1970|title=The fall of Benin: A Reassessment|journal=[[The Journal of African History]]|volume=XI|issue=3|pages=385–400|doi=10.1017/S0021853700010215|jstor=180345|s2cid=154621156 }}</ref>
* A [[cholera]] outbreak occurs in [[Hamburg]], Germany.
* A 50-year-old tortoise called ''[[Timothy (tortoise)|Timothy]]'', previously serving as a naval mascot, is brought to the estate of [[Powderham Castle]] in England, where she lives until her death in [[2004]].
* [[Virus]]es are first described by [[Russian people|Russian]] [[biologist]] [[Dmitri Ivanovsky]].