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( 1890s: )     1892
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. He also creates a carefully crafted image of philanthropy.
year 1892

Events

January–March

• February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies for a patent, on his compression ignition engine (the Diesel engine).
• March 6–8 – "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 protectorates.
• 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.

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 Company and the Edison General Electric Company.
• May 19 – Battle of Yemoja River: British troops defeat Ijebu infantry in modern-day Nigeria, using a maxim gun.
• May 22 – The British conquest of Ijebu Ode marks a major extension of colonial power into the Nigerian interior.
• May 24 – Prince George (later George V) becomes Duke of York.
• May 28 – In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
• June 5 – An oil fire in Oil City, Pennsylvania, kills 130 people.
• 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.
• 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

• • 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 detectives from New York and Chicago results in a fight in which about 10 men are killed.
• July 13 – The United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property (UIBPIP or BIRPI) is established in Bern, Switzerland.
• August – The first electric light bulb in Bulgaria is used at the Plovdiv Fair.
• August 9 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
• August 18 – William Ewart Gladstone assumes the U.K. premiership, as head of Liberal government, with Irish Nationalist Party support.
• 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 12 – To mark the 400th anniversary Columbus Day holiday, the "Pledge of Allegiance" is first recited in unison by students in U.S. public schools.
• 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.
  • 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.
• December 5 – John Thompson becomes Canada's fourth prime minister.

Date unknown

• 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.
• The Inter-Parliamentary Bureau for Permanent Arbitration is established.
• Diplomat Henry Galway secures a treaty by which Ovonramwen, Oba of Benin, ostensibly accepts British protection for his kingdom.

• Viruses are first described by Russian–Ukrainian biologist Dmitri Ivanovsky.

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Victorian era	1840	1901
The Walsall Bomb Plot	1892	1892	A frame up of anarchists by the UK Police.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Reading University		Public Red brick	Its first Principal is the geographer Halford John Mackinder
University of Rhode Island		Public Land grant Reserach	Rhode Island university
London South Bank University		Public	Public university in South London, England.
Coca-Cola			Beverage company. It forces poor people to use them as replacement for polluted water supplies... that CC caused.
Wistar Institute
Sierra Club			Front group for the WWF, 1001 Club, Club of Rome and similar misanthropic Population reductionists
APA			The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States

 

==A Quotation== 

A Death

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary
Jay Gould	27 May 1836	2 December 1892	New York US	Businessperson Financier

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Herman Brown	1892		1962	Businessperson	The 'Brown' in construction company "Brown and Root", a leader in the military-industrial complex.
James David Zellerbach	17 January 1892		3 August 1963	Deep state functionary Businessperson	Member of the Committee on the Present Danger, US deep state functionary?
Robert H. Jackson	13 February 1892	US Pennsylvania Spring Creek Township Warren County	9 October 1954		Chief United States Prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials following World War II.
James Forrestal	15 February 1892	New York US Matteawan	22 May 1949	Politician Banker	The first US Secretary of Defense, died in mysterious circumstances in Bethesda Naval Hospital, Maryland
Wendell Willkie	18 February 1892	US Indiana Elwood	8 October 1944	Politician Lawyer	US/1940 Presidential election candidate
Charles Willoughby	8 March 1892	Germany Heidelberg	25 October 1972	Spook
Paul Douglas	26 March 1892	US Massachusetts Salem	24 September 1976	Politician Economist	US post-WW2 Senator. Liberal anti-communist and supporter of the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Jules Guillaume	26 March 1892		6 October 1962	Diplomat Belgian nobility	Belgian diplomat and single Bilderberger. Secretary for King Baudouin.
Russell Grenfell	10 April 1892		4 July 1954	Journalist Historian Mariner
Josip Tito	7 May 1892	Austria-Hungary Kumrovec Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia	4 May 1980	Politician
Harry Anslinger	20 May 1892	Pennsylvania Altoona	14 November 1975		May have "truly believed marijuana to be a threat to the future of American civilization", Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics 1930-1962
Edward Bridges	4 August 1892		27 August 1969	Civil servant	As Head of the Home Civil Service, he learned about the existence of Stewart Menzies' personal slush fund.
Gill Robb Wilson	18 September 1892	Pennsylvania Clarion County	8 September 1966
Erle Halliburton	22 September 1892	US Tennessee Henning	13 October 1957	Businessperson
Herry Dexter White	9 October 1892	Boston Massachusetts	16 August 1948	Economist	US economist
Max Thornburg	10 October 1892		21 September 1962	Spook 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 Starr	15 October 1892	US California Fort Liberty	20 December 1968	Spook Businessperson
Dana Wilgress	20 October 1892	Vancouver British Columbia	21 July 1969	Diplomat	Attended the October 1957 Bilderberg as Canadian Permanent Representative to NATO
Guy Liddell	8 November 1892		3 December 1958	Spook	A deputy head of MI5 for 6 years
Jona von Ustinov	2 December 1892	Palestine Jaffa	1 December 1962	Spook
Francisco Franco	4 December 1892	Spain Galicia Ferrol	20 November 1975	Soldier
Anton Turkul	24 December 1892	Russia	20 August 1957	Spook Soldier	Exiled Tsarist army general who worked for both the British and Germans over the next few decades.

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