1892 - What happened in 1892 ?

January 1892

Friday 01:

Ellis Island opens to begin accepting immigrants to the United States.

Friday 15:

James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball.

Wednesday 20:

At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played.

February 1892

Friday 12:

Former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday in the United States.

Monday 29:

Saint Petersburg, Florida incorporated.

April 1892

Friday 15:

The General Electric Company is formed through the merger of the Edison General Electric Company and the Thomson-Houston Company.

Tuesday 19:

Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.

May 1892

Saturday 28:

In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.

June 1892

Saturday 11:

The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.

July 1892

Wednesday 06:

Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.

Friday 08:

St. John's, Newfoundland was devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.

Tuesday 12:

A hidden lake bursts out of a glacier on the side of Mont Blanc, flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers in Saint Gervais.

August 1892

Thursday 04:

The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.

Tuesday 09:

Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.

October 1892

Wednesday 12:

To mark 400 anniversary Columbus Day holiday, the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited in unison by students in US public schools

Monday 31:

Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

November 1892

Tuesday 08:

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.