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.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1892 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1892
MDCCCXCII
Ab urbe condita2645
Armenian calendar1341
ԹՎ ՌՅԽԱ
Assyrian calendar6642
Baháʼí calendar48–49
Balinese saka calendar1813–1814
Bengali calendar1299
Berber calendar2842
British Regnal year55 Vict. 1 – 56 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2436
Burmese calendar1254
Byzantine calendar7400–7401
Chinese calendar辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
4589 or 4382
    — to —
壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
4590 or 4383
Coptic calendar1608–1609
Discordian calendar3058
Ethiopian calendar1884–1885
Hebrew calendar5652–5653
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1948–1949
 - Shaka Samvat1813–1814
 - Kali Yuga4992–4993
Holocene calendar11892
Igbo calendar892–893
Iranian calendar1270–1271
Islamic calendar1309–1310
Japanese calendarMeiji 25
(明治25年)
Javanese calendar1821–1822
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4225
Minguo calendar20 before ROC
民前20年
Nanakshahi calendar424
Thai solar calendar2434–2435
Tibetan calendar阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
2018 or 1637 or 865
    — to —
阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
2019 or 1638 or 866

In Samoa, this was the only leap year spanned to 367 days as July 4 repeated. This means that the International Date Line was drawn from the east of the country to go west.

Events

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January–March

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February 27: Rudolf Diesel's patent.

April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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October 5: Dalton Gang.
 
Oct.31: "Sherlock Holmes"

Date unknown

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Births

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Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December · Date unknown

January

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Manuel Roxas
 
Ólafur Thors
 
Ernst Lubitsch
 
Juan Negrín
 
William P. Murphy

February

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March

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César Vallejo
 
Ferde Grofé
 
Mary Pickford
 
Arthur "Bomber" Harris

April

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Manfred von Richthofen
 
Josip Broz Tito
 
Mieczysław Horszowski
 
Pearl S. Buck

June

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July

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Haile Selassie I
 
William Powell

August

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Jack L. Warner

September

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Edward Victor Appleton
 
Arthur Compton
 
Pinto Colvig
 
Ivo Andrić

October

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November

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Francisco Franco
 
Rebecca West

December

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Date unknown

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Deaths

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January–June

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Louis Vuitton
 
Walt Whitman
 
Alexander Mackenzie

July–December

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John Greenleaf Whittier
 
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
 
Werner von Siemens

References

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