Major Events
- Jan 1 Ellis Island opens as a US immigration inspection station - it would go on to be the gateway to the US for more than 12 million people
- Jan 29 The Coca-Cola Company is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia
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1892 in Music
- Dec 18 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker" premieres in Saint Petersburg, Russia, now the world's most performed ballet; his final opera "Isolanta" also premieres
1892 in Sport
- Jan 15 Basketball rules first published in Triangle Magazine, written by James Naismith
- Nov 23 Pierre de Coubertin launches plan for modern Olympic Games at the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques AGM
Did You Know?
Arthur Conan Doyle publishes "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" collection of 12 stories originally published serially in "The Strand Magazine"
Manuel Roxas
Donald Wills Douglas
The Red Baron
Josip Broz Tito
Haile Selassie
Francisco Franco
J. R. R. Tolkien
Oliver Hardy
Mary Pickford
Basil Rathbone
Arthur Honegger
Darius MilhaudMore People Born in 1892
Fun Fact About 1892
Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4
Louis Vuitton
Walt Whitman
Alexander Mackenzie
Alexander Cartwright
Alfred Tennyson
Werner von SiemensMore 1892 Deaths
Famous Weddings in 1892
- Jan 11 Painter Paul Gauguin marries Teha'amana, a 13-year-old Tahitian girl
- Jul 16 Impressionist Painter Claude Monet (51) weds longtime companion Alice Hoschedé
- Sep 12 61st UK Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (25) weds British writer and maternity health activist Lucy Ridsdale (23) in Rottingdean, England
More Weddings in 1892
Claude Monet
Giuseppe Verdi
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Benjamin Harrison
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
Wilhelm II