Explore the major historical events, famous births, and notable deaths that occurred in the year 1892. This year saw 78 significant events. 12 notable figures were born. 3 notable figures passed away.
Ellis Island opens as a US immigration inspection station and becomes the gateway to the United States for more than 12 million people
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements.
The rules of basketball are first published in Triangle magazine, written by James Naismith
The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational corporation founded in 1892 headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Longest boxing match under modern rules: 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois, between Harry Sharpe and Frank Crosby
Impressionist Painter Claude Monet (51) weds longtime companion Alice Hoschedé
Pierre de Coubertin first publicly proposes the revival of the Olympic Games during a speech at the Sorbonne in Paris, celebrating the fifth anniversary of the French athletics union [1]
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker" premieres in Saint Petersburg, Russia, now the world's most performed ballet; his final opera "Isolanta" also premieres
First successful auroral photograph is made
Mine explosion kills 100 in Krebs, Oklahoma; blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
The Hawaiian Historical Society, established in 1892, is a private non-profit organized by a group of prominent citizens dedicated to preserving historical materials, presenting public lectures, and...
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test
Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of "400" to describe socially elite
Bottle cap for beverages is patented by US inventor William Painter and is still used today [1]
A yeshiva is a traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of Rabbinic literature, primarily the Talmud and halacha (Jewish law), while Torah and Jewish philosophy are studied in...
Manitoba Rugby Football Union was a Canadian football league, founded on Monday February 22, 1892.
1st college student government forms at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals. Seal hunting is currently practiced in nine countries: Canada, Denmark (in self-governing Greenland only), Russia, the United...
1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova, Penn
Springfield is the most populous city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, and its county seat.
1st escalator patented by American engineer Jesse Reno - first used at Old Iron Pier, Coney Island, New York City [1]
Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
An English cricket team, organised and led by the Surrey amateur Walter Read, toured South Africa from December 1891 to March 1892.
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and each one causes a different single character to be produced on paper...
1st Sunday NL baseball game, Reds beat Cards 5-1
Charles Duryea takes the 1st American-made automotive for a test drive
Black longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis, Missouri
Charlie Reilly becomes one of baseball's first pinch hitters
US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, San Francisco Bay
American engineer Charles Brady King invents the pneumatic hammer
A clothes dryer (tumble dryer, drying machine, drying device, or simply dryer) is a powered household appliance that is used to remove moisture from a load of clothing, bedding and other textiles,...
Pagliacci is an Italian opera in a prologue and two acts, with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo.
Washington Wentworth Sheffield (April 23, 1827 – November 4, 1897) was an American dental surgeon best known for inventing modern toothpaste in the 1870s. With the help of his son Lucius T.
Liverpool Football Club is an English association football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside.
Oil City and Titusville, Pennsylvania, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die
The South Side Elevated Railroad (originally Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad) was the first elevated rapid transit line in Chicago, Illinois.
Creole shoemaker Homer Plessy buys whites-only train ticket in New Orleans in act of civil disobedience - results in landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
US shoemaker Homer A. Plessy refuses to go to in a segregated RR car (US Supreme Court Plessy v Ferguson)
Baltimore catcher Wilbert Robinson sets MLB record by going 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game; Orioles rout St. Louis Cardinals, 25-4 at Oriole Park
The Limelight Department was an Australian film studio. One of the world's first film studios, with its beginnings in 1891, it was operated by the Salvation Army in Melbourne.
Netherlands Society for Currency & Coin collecting forms
Hawaii is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two non-contiguous U.S.
Chicago's 'The Inter Ocean' launches 1st US newspaper color supplement
Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories
James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house
Dadabhai Naoroji (4 September 1825 – 30 June 1917) was an Indian political leader, merchant, scholar and writer who played a prominent role in both Indian and British public life.
Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established leading to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia
Clark University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
First human test of a vaccine against cholera; Ukrainian bacteriologist Waldemar Haffkine risks his life by successfully testing it on himself
George A. Wheeler is granted a US patent for a prototype of the escalator
The Baltimore Afro-American, commonly known as The Afro or Afro News, is a weekly African-American newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland.
Russian and French generals Obruchev and Boisdeffre sign the Dual Alliance
The Transvaal National Union, a political organisation, is set up with J. Tudhope as president
New York City's Metropolitan Opera House, which opened in 1883, catches fire and takes two years to restore
Shipwreck of the "The Western Reserve" on Lake Superior during bad weather; 27 people drown with only one survivor [1]
First appearance of "Pledge of Allegiance" in Youth's Companion
Amalthea () is a moon of Jupiter. It has the third-closest orbit around Jupiter among known moons and was the fifth moon of Jupiter to be discovered, so it is also known as Jupiter V.
Amsterdam swimming club renamed "The Y"
Book matches are patented by the Diamond Match Company
Czech composer Antonín Dvořák becomes Director of the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York City and remains until the spring of 1895
Mansfield is a borough located in east-central Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States, in the Tioga River valley. As of the 2020 census, Mansfield had a population of 2,839.
First classes at the University of Chicago are held, with an enrollment of 594 men and women and a faculty of 120
The Dalton Gang ends in a shootout in Coffeyville, Kansas, during a bank holdup; four members are killed, and a fifth is captured
Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan
The U.S. Pledge of Allegiance is a patriotic recited verse that promises allegiance to the flag of the United States and the republic of the United States.
First commercial long-distance phone line opens between Chicago and New York
French poet Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands
1st CRU championship game: Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal, 45-5
Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500 to become first professional football player in the Allegheny Athletic Association's 4-0 win over the Pittsburgh Athletic Club
Battle of Lomani Congo: Belgian unit beats Arabs, 1000-3000 killed
Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag
Newcastle United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England.
Tchaikovski's ballet "Casse-noisette" premieres in St Petersburg
Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, NY
Alberto Franchetti's opera "Cristoforo Colombo" opens at La Scala Teatro in Milan, Italy
Biddle University beats Livingstone College 5-0 in the first black college football game, in Salisbury, North Carolina
Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal
Manuel Roxas is born
J. R. R. Tolkien, English writer and philologist, known for english writer and philologist, was born on 1892-01-03.
Oliver Hardy, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1892-01-18. Oliver Norvell Hardy was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era…
Bessie Coleman, American afro-indigenous pioneer in aviation, known for afro-indigenous pioneer in aviation, was born on 1892-01-26.
Arthur Honegger, French musician, known for french composer, was born on 1892-03-10. Oscar-Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris.
Mary Pickford, American actress and producer, known for canadian actress and producer, was born on 1892-04-08.
Basil Rathbone actor, known for english actor, was born on 1892-06-13. Philip St. John Basil Rathbone MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was an English actor.
Haile Selassie is born
Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish physicist who pioneered radio direction-finding and radar, known for scottish physicist who pioneered radio direction-finding and radar, was born on 1892-04-13.
Reinhold Niebuhr, American reformed theologian, known for american reformed theologian, was born on 1892-06-21.
Elmer Rice, American playwright, known for american playwright, was born on 1892-09-28. Elmer Rice was an American playwright.
J. Paul Getty industrialist, known for american industrialist, was born on 1892-12-15. Jean Paul Getty Sr.
Louis Vuitton dies
Walt Whitman poet, essayist and journalist, known for american poet, essayist and journalist, died on 1892-03-26. Walter Whitman Jr.
Werner von Siemens, German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist, known for german electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist, died on 1892-12-06.
Ellis Island opens as a US immigration inspection station and becomes the gateway to the United States for more than 12 million people
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements.
The rules of basketball are first published in Triangle magazine, written by James Naismith
The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational corporation founded in 1892 headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Longest boxing match under modern rules: 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois, between Harry Sharpe and Frank Crosby
Impressionist Painter Claude Monet (51) weds longtime companion Alice Hoschedé
Pierre de Coubertin first publicly proposes the revival of the Olympic Games during a speech at the Sorbonne in Paris, celebrating the fifth anniversary of the French athletics union [1]
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker" premieres in Saint Petersburg, Russia, now the world's most performed ballet; his final opera "Isolanta" also premieres
First successful auroral photograph is made
Mine explosion kills 100 in Krebs, Oklahoma; blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
The Hawaiian Historical Society, established in 1892, is a private non-profit organized by a group of prominent citizens dedicated to preserving historical materials, presenting public lectures, and...
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test
Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of "400" to describe socially elite
Bottle cap for beverages is patented by US inventor William Painter and is still used today [1]
A yeshiva is a traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of Rabbinic literature, primarily the Talmud and halacha (Jewish law), while Torah and Jewish philosophy are studied in...
Manitoba Rugby Football Union was a Canadian football league, founded on Monday February 22, 1892.
1st college student government forms at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals. Seal hunting is currently practiced in nine countries: Canada, Denmark (in self-governing Greenland only), Russia, the United...
1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova, Penn
Springfield is the most populous city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, and its county seat.
1st escalator patented by American engineer Jesse Reno - first used at Old Iron Pier, Coney Island, New York City [1]
Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
An English cricket team, organised and led by the Surrey amateur Walter Read, toured South Africa from December 1891 to March 1892.
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and each one causes a different single character to be produced on paper...
1st Sunday NL baseball game, Reds beat Cards 5-1
Charles Duryea takes the 1st American-made automotive for a test drive
Black longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis, Missouri
Charlie Reilly becomes one of baseball's first pinch hitters
US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, San Francisco Bay
American engineer Charles Brady King invents the pneumatic hammer
A clothes dryer (tumble dryer, drying machine, drying device, or simply dryer) is a powered household appliance that is used to remove moisture from a load of clothing, bedding and other textiles,...
Pagliacci is an Italian opera in a prologue and two acts, with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo.
Washington Wentworth Sheffield (April 23, 1827 – November 4, 1897) was an American dental surgeon best known for inventing modern toothpaste in the 1870s. With the help of his son Lucius T.
Liverpool Football Club is an English association football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside.
Oil City and Titusville, Pennsylvania, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die
The South Side Elevated Railroad (originally Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad) was the first elevated rapid transit line in Chicago, Illinois.
Creole shoemaker Homer Plessy buys whites-only train ticket in New Orleans in act of civil disobedience - results in landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
US shoemaker Homer A. Plessy refuses to go to in a segregated RR car (US Supreme Court Plessy v Ferguson)
Baltimore catcher Wilbert Robinson sets MLB record by going 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game; Orioles rout St. Louis Cardinals, 25-4 at Oriole Park
The Limelight Department was an Australian film studio. One of the world's first film studios, with its beginnings in 1891, it was operated by the Salvation Army in Melbourne.
Netherlands Society for Currency & Coin collecting forms
Hawaii is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two non-contiguous U.S.
Chicago's 'The Inter Ocean' launches 1st US newspaper color supplement
Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories
James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house
Dadabhai Naoroji (4 September 1825 – 30 June 1917) was an Indian political leader, merchant, scholar and writer who played a prominent role in both Indian and British public life.
Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established leading to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia
Clark University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
First human test of a vaccine against cholera; Ukrainian bacteriologist Waldemar Haffkine risks his life by successfully testing it on himself
George A. Wheeler is granted a US patent for a prototype of the escalator
The Baltimore Afro-American, commonly known as The Afro or Afro News, is a weekly African-American newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland.
Russian and French generals Obruchev and Boisdeffre sign the Dual Alliance
The Transvaal National Union, a political organisation, is set up with J. Tudhope as president
New York City's Metropolitan Opera House, which opened in 1883, catches fire and takes two years to restore
Shipwreck of the "The Western Reserve" on Lake Superior during bad weather; 27 people drown with only one survivor [1]
First appearance of "Pledge of Allegiance" in Youth's Companion
Amalthea () is a moon of Jupiter. It has the third-closest orbit around Jupiter among known moons and was the fifth moon of Jupiter to be discovered, so it is also known as Jupiter V.
Amsterdam swimming club renamed "The Y"
Book matches are patented by the Diamond Match Company
Czech composer Antonín Dvořák becomes Director of the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York City and remains until the spring of 1895
Mansfield is a borough located in east-central Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States, in the Tioga River valley. As of the 2020 census, Mansfield had a population of 2,839.
First classes at the University of Chicago are held, with an enrollment of 594 men and women and a faculty of 120
The Dalton Gang ends in a shootout in Coffeyville, Kansas, during a bank holdup; four members are killed, and a fifth is captured
Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan
The U.S. Pledge of Allegiance is a patriotic recited verse that promises allegiance to the flag of the United States and the republic of the United States.
First commercial long-distance phone line opens between Chicago and New York
French poet Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands
1st CRU championship game: Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal, 45-5
Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500 to become first professional football player in the Allegheny Athletic Association's 4-0 win over the Pittsburgh Athletic Club
Battle of Lomani Congo: Belgian unit beats Arabs, 1000-3000 killed
Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag
Newcastle United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England.
Tchaikovski's ballet "Casse-noisette" premieres in St Petersburg
Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, NY
Alberto Franchetti's opera "Cristoforo Colombo" opens at La Scala Teatro in Milan, Italy
Biddle University beats Livingstone College 5-0 in the first black college football game, in Salisbury, North Carolina
Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal
Manuel Roxas is born
J. R. R. Tolkien, English writer and philologist, known for english writer and philologist, was born on 1892-01-03.
Oliver Hardy, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1892-01-18. Oliver Norvell Hardy was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era…
Bessie Coleman, American afro-indigenous pioneer in aviation, known for afro-indigenous pioneer in aviation, was born on 1892-01-26.
Arthur Honegger, French musician, known for french composer, was born on 1892-03-10. Oscar-Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris.
Mary Pickford, American actress and producer, known for canadian actress and producer, was born on 1892-04-08.
Basil Rathbone actor, known for english actor, was born on 1892-06-13. Philip St. John Basil Rathbone MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was an English actor.
Haile Selassie is born
Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish physicist who pioneered radio direction-finding and radar, known for scottish physicist who pioneered radio direction-finding and radar, was born on 1892-04-13.
Reinhold Niebuhr, American reformed theologian, known for american reformed theologian, was born on 1892-06-21.
Elmer Rice, American playwright, known for american playwright, was born on 1892-09-28. Elmer Rice was an American playwright.
J. Paul Getty industrialist, known for american industrialist, was born on 1892-12-15. Jean Paul Getty Sr.
Louis Vuitton dies
Walt Whitman poet, essayist and journalist, known for american poet, essayist and journalist, died on 1892-03-26. Walter Whitman Jr.
Werner von Siemens, German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist, known for german electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist, died on 1892-12-06.