Notable Historical Events - 1892
1892 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Ellis Island becomes reception center for new immigrants |
Jan 5 |
1st successful auroral photograph made |
Jan 7 |
Mine explosion kills 100 in Krebs, Oklahoma; blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns |
Jan 11 |
Hawaiian Historical Society founded |
Jan 11 |
William D McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia |
Jan 15 |
Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass |
Jan 20 |
1st basketball game played (Mass) |
Jan 24 |
Battle of Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack British missionaries |
Jan 30 |
Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test |
Jan 30 |
Capt Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out |
Feb 1 |
Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of "400" to describe socially elite |
Feb 2 |
Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore) |
Feb 2 |
Johnny Briggs takes a hat-trick, England v Aust SCG |
Feb 2 |
Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe & Frank Crosby |
Feb 3 |
Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin |
Feb 16 |
Opera "Werther," premieres in Vienna |
Feb 22 |
"Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St James (London) |
Feb 22 |
Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms |
Feb 23 |
1st college student government forms at Bryn Mawr Penn |
Feb 25 |
James Barrie's "Walker London," premieres in London |
Feb 29 |
Britain & US sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea |
Feb 29 |
St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated. |
Mar 3 |
1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova, Penn |
Mar 11 |
1st public basketball game (Springfield, Mass) |
Mar 15 |
1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC) |
Mar 15 |
NY State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine) |
Mar 18 |
Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup) |
Mar 19 |
3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket Eng v SA (Cape Town) |
Apr 12 |
George C Blickensderfer patents portable typewriter |
Apr 15 |
General Electric Company, forms & is incorporated in NY |
Apr 17 |
1st Sunday NL baseball game, Reds beat Cards 5-1 |
Apr 19 |
Charles Duryea takes 1st American-made auto out for a spin (Mass) |
Apr 21 |
Black longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis, Mo |
Apr 28 |
1st performance of Antonin Dvorák's overture "Carneval" |
Apr 29 |
Charlie Reilly is baseball's 1st pinch hitter |
May 1 |
US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay |
May 11 |
18th Kentucky Derby: Lonnie Clayton aboard Azra wins in 2:41½ |
May 14 |
Vitesse 1892 soccer team forms in Arnhem |
May 19 |
Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer |
May 19 |
National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded |
May 20 |
George Sampson patents clothes dryer |
May 20 |
Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy & Austria forms |
May 21 |
Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera "I Pagliacci" premieres in Milan |
May 22 |
Dr Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube |
May 28 |
Sierra Club forms by John Muir in SF, for conservation of nature |
Jun 4 |
Oil City & Titusville Penn, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die |
Jun 4 |
Sierra Club forms in SF |
Jun 6 |
Chicago South Side Elevated Railroad opens (1st 3.6 miles) |
Jun 7 |
John J Doyle of Clev Spiders is 1st to pinch hit in a baseball game |
Jun 7 |
Republican convention in Minneapolis begins |
Jun 8 |
Homer A Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy v Ferguson) |
Jun 9 |
26th Belmont: W Hayward aboard Patron wins in 2:12 |
Jun 10 |
Wilbert Robinson sets record by going 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game |
Jun 11 |
The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia. |
Jun 12 |
Netherlands Society for Currency & Coin collecting forms |
Jun 18 |
Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii |
Jun 28 |
Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories |
Jul 4 |
James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house |
Jul 4 |
Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4. |
Jul 6 |
Dr Jose Rizal forms League Filipina |
Jul 6 |
Striking steel workers in Homestead, Pa, fire on scabs, killing 7 |
Jul 6 |
Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain. |
Jul 7 |
Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established leading to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia. |
Jul 7 |
9th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats B Hillyard (6-1 6-1) |
Jul 7 |
16th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Wilfred Baddeley beats Joshua Pim (4-6 6-3 6-3 6-2) |
Jul 8 |
American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Mass |
Jul 8 |
St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892. |
Jul 10 |
1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio) |
Jul 11 |
US Patent Office says J W Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp |
Aug 2 |
Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator |
Aug 4 |
Queen Wilhelmina & Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam and the Rhine |
Aug 4 |
Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass on two counts of murder |
Aug 13 |
US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore |
Aug 15 |
4th & last British government of William Gladstone forms |
Aug 17 |
Russian/French generals Obruchev/Boisdeffre signs Double Alliance |
Aug 20 |
The Transvaal National Union, a political organisation, is set up with J. Tudhope as president |
Aug 27 |
NYC Metropolitan Opera House catches fire |
Sep 7 |
James Corbett KOs John Sullivan in 21 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 8 |
1st appearance of "Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion) |
Sep 9 |
E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon |
Sep 16 |
Amsterdam swim club renamed "The Y" |
Sep 26 |
1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ) |
Sep 27 |
Book matches are patented by Diamond Match Company |
Sep 28 |
1st night football game played (Mansfield Pa) |
Sep 29 |
1st night football game played (Mansfield, Penn) |
Oct 1 |
University of Chicago opens |
Oct 5 |
Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup |
Oct 8 |
Sergei Rachmaninoff first performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow |
Oct 10 |
Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan |
Oct 12 |
US Pledge of Allegiance first recited in public schools during Columbus Day |
Oct 18 |
1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY) |
Oct 31 |
Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. |
Nov 2 |
French poet Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands |
Nov 8 |
Grover Cleveland (D) elected 24th US President |
Nov 10 |
1st CRU championship game: Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal, 45-5 |
Nov 12 |
Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player |
Nov 12 |
Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football |
Nov 23 |
Battle of Lomani Congo: Belgian unit beats Arabs, 1000-3000 killed |
Nov 23 |
P de Coubertin launches plan for Modern Olympic Games |
Dec 5 |
Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag |
Dec 5 |
Sir John Thompson becomes the fourth Prime Minister of Canada. |
Dec 16 |
Commencement of 1st Sheffield Shield cricket game, SA v NSW |
Dec 17 |
Tchaikovski's ballet "Casse-noisette" premieres in St Petersburg |
Dec 18 |
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "Nutcracker Suite" premieres |
Dec 18 |
Anton Bruckner's 8th Symphony premieres |
Dec 20 |
Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne |
Dec 20 |
Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, NY |
Dec 26 |
Opera "Cristoforo Colombo" is produced (La Scala) |
Dec 27 |
Foundation Stone of Cathedral of St John laid (NYC) |
Dec 27 |
N C Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game |
Dec 30 |
Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal |
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