1892

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1889 1890 1891 - 1892 - 1893 1894 1895

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s

align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).

Events

January 1 - Ellis Island begins accepting immigrants to the United States.
January 14 - Death of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, second in line heir to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Next in line is his younger brother Prince George of Wales.
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.
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 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.
May 7 - The Cook Islands issue their first postage stamps.
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 11 - The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.

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 Spainish authorities in connection with La Liga Filipina.
August 4 - The family of Lizzie Borden is 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 15 - Sergei Witte replaces Ivan Vishnegradksy as Russian finance minister.
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.
November 8 ? Anarchist bomb kills six in police station in Avenue de l'Opera, Paris
November 17 - French troops occupy Abomey, capital of kingdom of Dahomey.
December 5 - John Thompson becomes Canada's fourth prime minister.

Last open land rush is held in Oklahoma.
The Stanley Cup is donated by Sir Frederick Arthur.
Pennsauken is incorporated.
Rudolf Diesel patents the diesel engine.
Oil fire rages in Oil City, Pennsylvania ? 130 dead
Cholera in Hamburg, Germany
Tortoise called Timothy brought to the estate of Powderham Castle in England (allegedly alive as of 2001 - at least 148 years old)
Abu Dhabi becomes a British protectorate