What Happened in 1892 — Events, Births & Deaths

James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.

St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.

The Saint-Germain bombing ushers France into the Ère des attentats (1892-1894).

The Lobau bombing is one of the first attacks of the Ère des attentats (1892-1894).

The General Electric Company is formed.

Véry bombing during the Ère des attentats (1892–1894).

In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.

Liverpool F.C. is founded by John Houlding.

The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.

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.

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

The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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.

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

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

A locomotive shunting falls into a hole in the ground, leading to the burial of the locomotive.

The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.

Edward Emerson Barnard is first to discover a comet by photographic means.

Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.

The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky premiers in Saint Petersburg, Russia.