History 1892-1893
- 1892
- Diesel patents his internal combustion engine
- First automatic telephone switchboard introduced
- Salisbury ministry falls after 6 years, Gladstone becomes prime minister for fourth and last time
- Cape to Johannesburg railroad completed
- Outlaws, the Daltons are killed in Kansas
- Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan plays the St. James Theatre in London
- Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker Suite plays in St. Petersburg, Russia
- First successful gasoline tractor produced in U.S.
- Unexplained explosions occur along the English Channel and continue for several years with no explanation ever discovered
- J.R.R. Tolkien born.
- 1893
- Independent Labour Party founded in Britain
- Franco-Russ alliance signed
- Revolt against South Africa Company at Matabele crushed by machine guns
- Second Irish Home Rule Bill passed by House of Commons but rejected by House of Lords
- Swaziland annexed by Transvaal
- Henry Ford builds his first car
- Imperial Institute founded in South Kensington, London
- Lady Margaret Scott wins first British golf championship
- Wall Street stock market crash results in four-year depression in U.S.
- World’s first open-heart surgery performed in Chicago
- Four-color rotary press installed by Joseph Pulitzer in New .York
- World’s first Ferris wheel in Chicago
- Lizzie Borden goes to trial in Massachusetts
- Third Ashanti War begins in West Africa
- First self-loading automatic pistolcdeveloped by Hugo Borchardt.
