Important Historical Events of the year 1892, Year 1892 in History

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List of 1892 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1892

What happened in the year 1892?

Date	Event
January 1, 1892	Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the United States.
January 15, 1892	James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
February 29, 1892	St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
April 15, 1892	The General Electric Company is formed.
May 28, 1892	In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
June 6, 1892	The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.
June 7, 1892	Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
June 11, 1892	The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
June 30, 1892	The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
July 4, 1892	Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
July 6, 1892	Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
July 7, 1892	The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
July 8, 1892	St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
July 26, 1892	Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
August 4, 1892	The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She will be tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
August 9, 1892	Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
September 8, 1892	The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
September 9, 1892	Amalthea, third closest and fifth found moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
September 22, 1892	Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.
September 28, 1892	The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
October 12, 1892	The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
October 13, 1892	Edward Emerson Barnard discovers first comet discovered by photographic means.
October 21, 1892	Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
October 26, 1892	Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
November 8, 1892	The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
November 12, 1892	Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
December 17, 1892	First issue of Vogue is published.
December 18, 1892	Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.