In history, year 1892 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1892.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 01 january | The immigration station on Ellis Island in New York Harbor Opened, and would, over the course of its existence, process twelve million immigrants to the United States. |
| 15 march | Liverpool F.C., one of England's most successful footballclubs, was founded. |
| 18 march | Canadian Governor General Lord Stanley of Preston pledged to donate what would become the Stanley Cup, today the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, as an award for Canada's top-ranking amateur ice hockey club. |
| 18 march | Lord Stanley of Preston pledged to donate an award for Canada'stop-ranked amateur ice hockey club, now known as the Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America. |
| 28 may | Aided by a group of professors from the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley and Stanford University, preservationist John Muirfounded the environmental organization Sierra Club in San Francisco. |
| 06 june | The 'L' train of Chicago, the secondlongest rapid transit system in total track mileage in the UnitedStates, began operations. |
| 07 june | Homer Plessy, an 'octoroon' from New Orleans, was arrested forrefusing to leave the 'whites-only' car on a train. |
| 06 july | Dadabhai Naoroji became the first Indian to be elected in British Parliament. He was a parsi intellectual who became the social reformer. He was actually one of the biggest cotton traders from India. He played a major role in Indian independence struggle. |
| 06 july | During a steelworkers' strike in Homestead, Pennsylvania, aday-long battle between strikers and Pinkerton agents resulted in tendeaths and dozens of people wounded. |
| 07 july | The Philippine revolutionary secret society Katipunan was founded by anti-Spanish Filipinos in Manila. |
| 24 august | Goodison Park in Liverpool, England, one of the world's firstpurpose-built football grounds, opened. |
| 12 october | The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States was first used inpublic schools to coincide with the opening of the World's ColumbianExposition in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 08 november | Despite racial divisions, black and white union members unitedin a general strike in New Orleans, Louisiana, US. |
| 12 november | William Heffelfinger was paid $525 by the Allegheny AthleticAssociation, becoming the first professional American football player onrecord. |
| 18 december | The first performance of the fairy-tale ballet The Nutcracker was held at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. |
| 22 May | Doctor Washington Scheffield invented the tube for toothpaste. |
| 28 September | The first night of football was played. |
| 13 October | Edward Emerson Bernard first discovered the tail star, called D-1892T1, through photographs. |
| 23 November | Belgium defeated Arabia in the Battle of Lomani Congo. About 3000 people died in the war. |
| 20 January | Basketball was played for the first time. |
| 11 January | Hawaii Historical Society was established. |
| 02 February | Johnny Briggs scored hat-trick England vs Australia. |
| 15 March | Jessie W. Reno invented the first escalator. |
| 15 April | The General Electric Company was established in New York. |
| 28 May | John Muir Sierra Club organized in San Francisco. |
| 07 June | The Republican convention began in Minneapolis. |
| 06 July | Dadabhai Naoroji was elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain. |
| 03 August | The first electric light bulb in Bulgaria was used at the Plovdiv Fair. |
| 16 September | The first woman took admission to Yale University to graduate. |
| 01 October | University of Chicago ICT placed in first grade. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 January | Manuel Roxas / Conductor / Philippines |
| 04 April | Italo Mus / Painter / Italy |
| 05 September | Joseph Szigeti / Educator / Hungary |
| 06 February | Maximilian Fretter-Pico / General / Germany |
| 07 June | Leo Reise / Ice Hockey Player / Canada |
| 08 October | Marina Tsvetaeva / Poet / Russia |
| 08 July | Richard Aldington / Poet / United Kingdom |
| 09 March | Mátyás Rákosi / Politician / Hungary |
| 11 July | Thomas Mitchell / Actor / United States of America |
| 14 April | Juan Belmonte / Bullfighter / Spain |
| 14 January | George Wilson / Footballer / United Kingdom |
| 15 February | James Forrestal / Politician / United States of America |
| 16 March | César Vallejo / Poet / Peru |
| 17 October | Herbert Howells / Composer / United Kingdom |
| 18 February | Wendell Willkie / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 19 March | James Van Fleet / Diplomat / United States of America |
| 22 January | Marcel Dassault / Business Man / France |
| 27 February | William Demarest / Actor / United States of America |
| 28 October | Dink Johnson / Drummer / United States of America |
| 31 May | Erich Neumann / Politician / Germany |