1892

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1860s  1870s  1880s  – 1890s –  1900s  1910s  1920s
Years:	1889 1890 1891 – 1892 – 1893 1894 1895

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1892 Media

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  February 27: Rudolf Diesel's patent.

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  Oct.31: "Sherlock Holmes"

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  Former President Manuel Roxas

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  Photograph of J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1920s on leaving Leeds University

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  OlafurThors

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  German film director Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947).

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  Juan Negrín.

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  William Parry Murphy (February 6, 1892 – October 9, 1987), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1934.

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  fotografia de César Vallejo en el Parque de Versalles

1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1892nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 892nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 92nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1892, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Births

• January 3 – J. R. R. Tolkien
• February 10 - Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)
• July 23 – Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia
• Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, British Indian statesman and leader of the Punjab.

Art, music, theatre, and literature

• December 17 – Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker premieres in St Petersburg.