Charles Fort: A Fortean Chronology, 1892.

Year 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian Calendar.

January

A house in Peterborough, England, occupied by a family named Rimes, was repeatedly shaken as if bombed. Nobody was injured and no damage was done. (Books943)
January 1: Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States.
January 5: A light in the sky over Lyons, N.Y. (Books451)
January 15: James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball.
January 17: A battle in the sky above Lewiston, Montana. A mirage of victorious natives and defeated hunters. (Books459)
January 20: At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played.

February

February 2: A light in the sky over Lyons, N.Y. (Books451)
February 12: Former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday in the United States.
February 27: Rudolf Diesel applies for a patent on his compression ignition engine (the Diesel engine).
February 29: A light in the sky over Lyons, N.Y. (Books451)

March

March 13: Ernest Louis, a grandson of Queen Victoria, becomes Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine on the death of his father, Grand Duke Louis IV.
March 15: The Liverpool Football Club is founded by John Houlding, the owner of Anfield. Houlding decides to form his own team after Everton leaves Anfield in an argument over rent.
March 20: The first ever French rugby championship final takes place in Paris. Pierre de Coubertin referees the match, which Racing Club de France wins 4-3 over Stade Français.
March 27: A light in the sky over Lyons, N.Y. (Books451)
March 31: The world's first fingerprinting bureau is formally opened by the Buenos Aires Chief of Police; it had been operating unofficially since the previous year.

April

The Johnson County War breaks out between small farmers and large ranchers in Wyoming.
April 1: The city of Maebashi is founded by the samurai Makuba Kawai.
April 15: The General Electric Company is established through the merger of the Thomson-Houston Company and the Edison General Electric Company.
April 23: A light in the sky over Lyons, N.Y. (Books451)

May

May 7: The Cook Islands issue their first postage stamps.
May 19: Battle of Yemoja River: British troops defeat Ijebu infantry in modern-day Nigeria, using a maxim gun.
May 22: The British conquest of Ijebu-Ode marks a major extension of colonial power into the Nigerian interior.
May 24: Prince George of Wales becomes Duke of York.
May 28: In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
May 29: A shower of an enormous number of eels at Coalburg, Alabama. (Books546)

June

June 4: Abercrombie & Fitch is established by David Abercrombie.
June 7: Homer Plessy (a black man) is arrested for sitting on the whites-only car in Louisiana, leading to the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson court case.
June 11: The Limelight Department, later one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
June 30: A rain of small frogs near Birmingham, England. (Books83)
June 30: The Homestead Strike begins in Homestead, Pennsylvania, culminating in a battle between striking workers and private security agents on July 6.

July

Near Bree, Belgium are heard detonations at regular intervals of about 12 seconds, repeated about 20 times. (Books472)
July 4 Samoa: Samoa changes its time zone to being 3 hours behind California, such that it crosses the international date line and July 4th occurs twice.
July 4-18: British general election, The Unionist government loses its majority.
July 6: Homestead Strike: The arrival of a force of 300 Pinkerton detectives from New York and Chicago results in a fight in which about 10 men are killed.
July 8: The Great Fire of 1892 devastates the city of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
July 12: A hidden lake bursts out of a glacier on the side of Mont Blanc, flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers in Saint Gervais.

August

August 4: The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
August 5: Near Dunkirk, France, four reports like the sounds of cannons are heard. (Books472)
August 9: Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
August 12: "Rapid flashes" seen in the sky above England, seen by many persons. (Books465)
August 18: William Ewart Gladstone assumes British premiership at head of Liberal government, with Irish Nationalist Party support.

September

September 15: Sergei Witte replaces Ivan Vyshnegradsky as Russian finance minister.

October

During a drought, day after day, water was seen to be falling upon a large Cottonwood Tree, near Stillwater, Oklahoma. (Books560)
October 5: The Dalton Gang, attempting to rob 2 banks in Coffeyville, Kansas, is shot by the townspeople; only Emmett Dalton, with 23 wounds, survives to spend 14 years in prison.
October 5: Master criminal Adam Worth is captured in Liège, Belgium during an attempted robbery of a money delivery cart.
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 31: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

November

November 8: U.S. presidential election, Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
November 8: An anarchist bomb kills 6 in a police station in Avenue de l'Opera, Paris.
November 17: French troops occupy Abomey, capital of the kingdom of Dahomey.

December

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