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== Events ==
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=== January–March ===
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* [[February 27]] – [[Rudolf Diesel]] applies for a patent, on his compression ignition engine (the [[Diesel engine]]).
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* [[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.
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* [[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.
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=== April–June ===
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* [[April]] – The [[Johnson County War]] breaks out between small farmers and large ranchers in [[Wyoming]].
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* [[April 15]] – The [[General Electric]] Company is established through the merger of the Thomson-Houston Company and the Edison General Electric Company.
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* [[May 19]] – Battle of Yemoja River: British troops defeat [[Ijebu Kingdom|Ijebu]] infantry in modern-day [[Nigeria]], using a [[maxim gun]].
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* [[May 22]] – The British conquest of [[Ijebu Ode]] marks a major extension of colonial power into the [[Nigeria]]n interior.
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* [[May 24]] – Prince George (later [[George V]]) becomes [[Duke of York]].
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* [[May 28]] – In [[San Francisco]], [[John Muir]] organizes the [[Sierra Club]].
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* [[June 5]] – An oil fire in [[Oil City, Pennsylvania]], kills 130 people.
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* [[June 7]] – [[Homer Plessy]], an [[octoroon]], is arrested for deliberately sitting in a whites-only railroad car in Louisiana, leading to the landmark ''[[Plessy v. Ferguson]]'' court case, an unsuccessful attempt to challenge "[[separate but equal]]" race legislation in the United States.
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* [[June 30]] – The [[Homestead Strike]] begins in [[Homestead, Pennsylvania]], culminating in a battle between striking workers and private security agents on [[July 6]].
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=== July–September ===
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** Dr. [[José Rizal]], Filipino writer, philosopher and political activist, is arrested by Spanish authorities, in connection with [[La Liga Filipina]].
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** [[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.
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* [[July 13]] – The United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property (UIBPIP or [[BIRPI]]) is established in Bern, Switzerland.
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* [[August]] – The first electric [[light bulb]] in [[Bulgaria]] is used at the [[Plovdiv Fair]].
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* [[August 9]] – [[Thomas Edison]] receives a [[patent]] for a two-way [[Telegraphy|telegraph]].
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* [[August 18]] – [[William Ewart Gladstone]] assumes the U.K. premiership, as head of [[The Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] government, with [[Irish Nationalist Party]] support.
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* [[September 15]] – [[Sergei Witte]] replaces Ivan Vyshnegradsky, as Russian finance minister.
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* [[September]] – Women are first admitted to Yale University's graduate school.
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=== October–December ===
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* [[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.
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* [[November 8]]
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** [[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.
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** An [[anarchist]] bomb kills six in a police station in [[Avenue de l'Opéra]], Paris.
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** The four-day [[New Orleans General Strike]] begins.
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* [[November 17]] – French troops occupy [[Abomey]], capital of the kingdom of [[Dahomey]].
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* [[December 5]] – [[John Sparrow David Thompson|John Thompson]] becomes Canada's fourth [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]].
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=== Date unknown ===
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* [[Andrew Carnegie]] combines all of his separate businesses into the [[Carnegie Steel Company]], allowing him to gain a [[monopoly]] in the United States steel industry.
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* The [[Inter-Parliamentary Bureau for Permanent Arbitration]] is established.
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* Diplomat [[Henry Galway]] secures a treaty by which [[Ovonramwen]], [[Oba of Benin]], ostensibly accepts British protection for his kingdom.
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* [[Virus]]es are first described by [[Russian people|Russian]]–[[Ukrainian people|Ukrainian]] [[biologist]] [[Dmitri Ivanovsky]].
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Revision as of 00:45, 2 March 2021

1882 < 1883 < 1884 < 1885 < 1886 < 1887 < 1888 <1889 < 1890 < 1891 < 1892 > 1893 > 1894 > 1895 > 1896 > 1897 > 1898 > 1899 > 1900 > 1901 > 1902

Decade.png 1890s: )    Year.png 1892 Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December


Date unknown


 

Events

EventStartEndDescription
Pax Brittanica18151915
Victorian era18401901
The Walsall Bomb Plot18921892A frame up of anarchists by the UK Police.

 

New Groups

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==A Quotation== 

A Death

TitleBornDiedPlace of deathSummary
Jay Gould27 May 18362 December 1892New York
United States
Businessperson
Financier

 

Births

TitleBornPlace of birthDiedSummaryDescription
Herman Brown18921962BusinesspersonThe 'Brown' in construction company "Brown and Root", a leader in the military-industrial complex.
James David Zellerbach17 January 18923 August 1963Deep state functionary
Businessperson
Member of the Committee on the Present Danger, US deep state functionary?
Robert H. Jackson13 February 1892United States
Pennsylvania
Spring Creek Township
Warren County
9 October 1954Chief United States Prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials following World War II.
James Forrestal15 February 1892New York
United States
Matteawan
22 May 1949Politician
Banker
The first US Secretary of Defense, died in mysterious circumstances in Bethesda Naval Hospital, Maryland
Charles Willoughby8 March 1892Germany
Heidelberg
25 October 1972Spook
Paul Douglas26 March 1892US
Massachusetts
Salem
24 September 1976Politician
Economist
US post-WW2 Senator. Liberal anti-communist and supporter of the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Jules Guillaume26 March 18926 October 1962Diplomat
Belgian nobility
Belgian diplomat and single Bilderberger. Secretary for King Baudouin.
Russell Grenfell10 April 18924 July 1954Journalist
Historian
Mariner
Josip Tito7 May 1892Austria-Hungary
Kumrovec
Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
4 May 1980Politician
Harry Anslinger20 May 1892Pennsylvania
Altoona
14 November 1975
Edward Bridges4 August 189227 August 1969Civil servantAs Head of the Home Civil Service, he learned about the existence of Stewart Menzies' personal slush fund.
Gill Robb Wilson18 September 1892Pennsylvania
Clarion County
8 September 1966
Erle Halliburton22 September 1892US
Tennessee
Henning
13 October 1957Businessperson
Herry Dexter White9 October 1892Boston
Massachusetts
16 August 1948Economist
Max Thornburg10 October 189221 September 1962Spook
Economist
Petroleum adviser to the United States Department of State and a senior oil executive for the SOCAL and Caltex in the Middle East including Bahrain and Iran. Special assistant to the Undersecretary of State from 1941 to 1943 during World War II.
Cornelius Vander Starr15 October 1892US
California
Fort Bragg
20 December 1968Spook
Businessperson
Dana Wilgress20 October 1892Vancouver
British Columbia
21 July 1969DiplomatAttended the October 1957 Bilderberg as Canadian Permanent Representative to NATO
Guy Liddell8 November 18923 December 1958SpookA deputy head of MI5 for 6 years
Jona von Ustinov2 December 1892Palestine
Jaffa
1 December 1962Spook
Francisco Franco4 December 1892Spain
Galicia
Ferrol
20 November 1975Soldier
Anton Turkul24 December 1892Russia20 August 1957Spook
Soldier
Exiled Tsarist army general who worked for both the British and Germans over the next few decades.
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