1892

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.

1892 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1892 MDCCCXCII
Ab urbe condita	2645
Armenian calendar	1341 ԹՎ ՌՅԽԱ
Assyrian calendar	6642
Bahá'í calendar	48–49
Balinese saka calendar	1813–1814
Bengali calendar	1299
Berber calendar	2842
British Regnal year	55 Vict. 1 – 56 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2436
Burmese calendar	1254
Byzantine calendar	7400–7401
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 4588 or 4528     — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4589 or 4529
Coptic calendar	1608–1609
Discordian calendar	3058
Ethiopian calendar	1884–1885
Hebrew calendar	5652–5653
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1948–1949
- Shaka Samvat	1813–1814
- Kali Yuga	4992–4993
Holocene calendar	11892
Igbo calendar	892–893
Iranian calendar	1270–1271
Islamic calendar	1309–1310
Japanese calendar	Meiji 25 (明治２５年)
Javanese calendar	1821–1822
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4225
Minguo calendar	20 before ROC 民前20年
Nanakshahi calendar	424
Thai solar calendar	2434–2435
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Iron-Hare) 2018 or 1637 or 865     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Water-Dragon) 2019 or 1638 or 866

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.