1892

Events from the year 1892 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Benjamin Harrison (R-IN)
* Vice President: Levi P. Morton (R-NY)
* Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (IL)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Charles Frederick Crisp (D-GA)
* Congress: 52nd
==Events==
===January - March===
* January 1 – Ellis Island begins receiving immigrants to the United States.
* January 15 – James Naismith's rules for basketball are published for the first time in the Springfield YMCA International Training School's newspaper, in an article titled "A New Game".
* January 20 – At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played.
* February 12 – Former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a national public holiday in the United States.
* February 18 – Pennsauken Township, New Jersey is incorporated.
* February 23 – The 7.1–7.2 Mw Laguna Salada earthquake shakes Southern California and northern Mexico with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe).
* March 15 – Jesse W. Reno patents the first working escalator used at Old Iron Pier, Coney Island, New York City.
===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.
* April 19 – The 6.4 MLa Vacaville–Winters earthquake shakes the North Bay are of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). This first event in a doublet earthquake results in one death and is followed two days later by a 6.2 MLa shock. Total damage from the events is $225,000–250,000.
* April 29 – Redondo Beach, California, is founded.
* April 30 – Lynching of Ephraim Grizzard, an African American, in Nashville, Tennessee.
* May 10 - Glen Ellyn, Illinois is incorporated.
* May 28 – The Sierra Club is organized by John Muir in San Francisco, California.
* June 6 – The Chicago "L" elevated railway opens.
* June 7 – Homer Plessy, who is one-eighth African heritage with light skin, is arrested for sitting on the whites-only car in Louisiana, leading to the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson court case.
* 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===
* July 4 – Samoa changes its time zone to being 3 hours behind California, such that it crosses the international date line and July 4 occurs twice.
* July 6 – Homestead Strike: The arrival of a force of 300 Pinkerton detectives from New York City and Chicago results in a fight in which about 10 men are killed.
* August 4 – The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found violently murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
* August 9 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
* August 13 – The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper, the country's longest-running African American family owned newspaper business, publishes its first issue (publisher, John H. Murphy Sr.).
===October - December===
* October 5 – The Dalton Gang, attempting to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas, is shot by the townspeople; only Emmett Dalton, with 23 wounds, survives to spend 14 years in prison.
* 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.
* October 24 – Boston Beaneaters win their Fifth National League Pennant by defeating Cleveland Spiders 5 games to 0.
* November 8
** 1892 U.S. presidential election: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
** The four-day New Orleans General Strike begins.
* November 12 – Pudge Heffelfinger is paid $525 by the Allegheny Athletic Association, becoming the first professional American football player on record.
* December 17 – Vogue magazine launched.
==Memoriam==
* January 2 – Montgomery C. Meigs, career U.S. Army officer and civil engineer, Quartermaster General of the United States Army during and after the American Civil War (aged 75; Washington, DC, USA)
* February 28 – Elias Nelson Conway, 5th Governor of Arkansas from 1852 to 1860 (aged 79; Little Rock, AR, USA)
* March 26 – Walt Whitman, poet, author of Leaves of Grass (aged 72; Camden, NJ, USA)
* April 6 – Willard Saulsbury Sr., U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1873 to 1892 (aged 71; Dover, DE, USA)
* May 14 – John S. Barbour Jr., U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1889 to 1892 (aged 71; Washington, DC, USA)
* June 8 – Robert Ford, outlaw, killer of Jesse James (aged 30; Creede, CO, USA)
* June 11 – Leonidas L. Polk, farmer, journalist and political figure (aged 55; Washington, DC, USA)
* July 14 – Newton Booth, U.S. Senator from California from 1875 to 1881 (aged 66; Sacramento, CA, USA)
* August 16 – Thomas H. Watts, 18th Governor of Alabama, 3rd Confederate States Attorney General (aged 73; Montgomery, AL, USA)
* September 23 – John Pope, career U.S. Army officer and Union general in the Civil War (aged 70; Sandusky, OH, USA)
* October 5
** Bob Dalton (aged 23; Coffeyville, KS, USA)
** Grat Dalton (aged 31; Coffeyville, KS, USA)
* October 18 – William W. Chapman, politician and lawyer (aged 84; Portland, OR, USA)
* October 25
** Caroline Harrison, First Lady of the United States as wife of President Benjamin Harrison (aged 60; Washington, DC, USA)
** Zenas King, bridge builder (aged 74; Cleveland, OH, USA)
* November 29 – Graham N. Fitch, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1857 to 1861 (aged 82; Logansport, IN, USA)
* December 2 – Jay Gould, railroad developer and speculator (aged 56; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 15 – Randall L. Gibson, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1883 to 1892 (aged 60; Hot Springs, AR, USA)
* December 31 – Henry P. Baldwin, Governor of Michigan from 1869 to 1873 and U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1879 to 1881 (aged 78; Detroit, MI, USA)
==External links==
* 1892 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 12