In 1892, Stone was convinced to sit for a portrait in sculpture, rendered by Anne Whitney, sculptor and poet.

Two grand equestrian monuments to Civil War generals are outstanding: to General John A. Logan, atop a tumulus in Chicago, 1894 – 1897, and to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the corner of Central Park in New York, 1892 – 1903, the first use of Robert Treat Paine's pointing device for the accurate mechanical enlargement of sculpture models.

Gilbert was chosen associate of the Royal Academy in 1887, full member in 1892 ( resigned 1909 ), and professor of sculpture ( afterwards resigned ) in 1900.

In 1892 Stuck co-founded the Munich Secession, and also executed his first sculpture, Athlete.

It has been edited by G. Waitz and published in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores, Band xxvi ( Hanover and Berlin, 1826 – 1892 ).

* The Thirsty Sword ( 1892 ) by Robert Leighton.

In 1892, a short-lived rule was added crediting runners with stolen bases if a base runner advanced on a fly out, or if they advanced more than one base on any safe hit or attempted out, providing an attempt was made by the defense to put the runner out.

In the then Victorian Colony ( now State of Victoria in Australia ), the ( Royal ) Victorian Bowling Association was formed in 1880 and The Scottish Bowling Association was established in 1892, although there had been a failed attempt in 1848 by 200 Scottish clubs.

The Secret Treaty of 1892 required both Russia and France to mobilize immediately followed by a commencement of action against the Triple Alliance if any member of the Triplice mobilized, and so, soon all the Great Powers of Europe were at war except Italy.

The first Archdeacon was Reginald Hobhouse and he was succeeded by Archdeacon du Boulay in 1892.

During the 1892 – 1894 war between the Congo Free State and the Swahili-Arab city-states of Nyangwe and Kasongo in Eastern Congo, there were reports of widespread cannibalization of the bodies of defeated Arab combatants by the Batetela allies of Belgian commander Francis Dhanis.

The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.

Centaur carrying off a nymph ( 1892 ) by Laurent Marqueste ( Tuileries Garden, Paris )

* 1892 – premiere performance of The Nutcracker Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg.

Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from the response of navies to the threat posed by the torpedo boat.

" Although the term destroyer had been used interchangeably with the terms " TBD " and " torpedo boat destroyer " by navies since 1892, the term torpedo boat destroyer had been generally shortened to simply " destroyer " by nearly all navies by the First World War.

In the United States William Rainey Harper, first president of the University of Chicago developed the concept of extended education, whereby the research university had satellite colleges of education in the wider community, and in 1892 he also encouraged the concept of correspondence school courses to further promote education, an idea that was put into practice by Columbia University.

An oblique reference to Epimenides in the context of logic appears in " The Logical Calculus " by W. E. Johnson, Mind ( New Series ), volume 1, number 2 ( April, 1892 ), pages 235 – 250.

The federal government, which had bought the island in 1808, began expanding the island by landfill, to accommodate the immigration station opened in 1892.

One of the first electronic oscillators was an oscillating arc built by Elihu Thomson in 1892.

Depiction of bearded Emperor Jimmu with his emblematic long bow and an accompanying wild bird — artwork by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi ( 1839 – 1892 ).

Emperor Kazan, who was tricked into abdicating, on his way to the temple where he will become a Buddhist monk – woodblock prin by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka ( 1839 – 1892 ).

Modern dimensions of the classical instrument were established by the Spaniard Antonio de Torres Jurado ( 1817 – 1892 ).

The poet Nicholas Moore and the composer Timothy Moore were his sons, by Dorothy Moore, born 1892, died 1977.

* Berliner Gramophone, incorporated by Emile Berliner in 1892 in Washington, D. C. as the United States Gramophone Company

A major outbreak of cholera in 1892 was badly handled by the city government, which still retained an unusual degree of independence for a German city at the time.

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

* 1820 – Alexander Cartwright, American inventor of Baseball ( d. 1892 )

* 1946 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player ( b. 1892 )

* 1892 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player ( d. 1946 )

* March 24 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player ( b. 1892 )

* January 28 – Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1892 )

Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, KCB, FRS, FRAeS ( 13 April 1892 – 5 December 1973 ) is considered by many to be the " inventor of radar ".

Notable Presidents of IEEE and its founding organizations include Elihu Thomson ( AIEE, 1889 – 1890 ), Alexander Graham Bell ( AIEE, 1891 – 1892 ), Charles Proteus Steinmetz ( AIEE, 1901 – 1902 ), Lee De Forest ( IRE, 1930 ), Frederick E. Terman ( IRE, 1941 ), William R. Hewlett ( IRE, 1954 ), Ernst Weber ( IRE, 1959 ; IEEE, 1963 ), and Ivan Getting ( IEEE, 1978 ).

Alexander Joy Cartwright, Jr. ( April 17, 1820 – July 12, 1892 ) is one of several people sometimes referred to as a " father of baseball ".

Under Alexander III, however, by laws promulgated in 1892 and 1894, the municipal dumas were subordinated to the governors in the same way as the zemstvos.

* John Alexander Anderson ( 1834 – 1892 ), United States Representative from Kansas

* Armstead M. Alexander, ( 1834 – 1892 ), United States Congressman from Missouri.

The architect was possibly Alexander Jackson Davis ( 1803 – 1892 ) or Henry Austin ( 1804 – 1891 ).

* Sir Alexander Campbell ( Canadian senator ) ( 1822 – 1892 ), legislator, minister, Lieutenant Governor, and Senator

Tsar Alexander III appointed him acting Minister of Ways and Communications in 1892.

Sir Alexander Campbell, PC, KCMG, QC ( March 9, 1822 – May 24, 1892 ) was an English-born, Canadian statesman and politician, and a father of Canadian Confederation.

Dewdney is the son of Canadian artist and author Selwyn Dewdney, brother of Alexander Keewatin Dewdney, and the great-grand-nephew of Edgar Dewdney ( Lieutenant-governor: British Columbia 1892 — 1897, Northwest Territories, 1881 — 1888 ).

The act to establish Algonquin Park was drawn up in 1892 by this five member Royal Commission, made up of Alexander Kirkwood ( the chairman and Commissioner of Crown Lands ), James Dickson ( Ontario Land Surveyor ), Archibald Blue ( director of mines ), Robert Phipps ( head of the Forestry Branch ), and Aubrey White ( Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands ).

The older western tunnel was designed by Sir Alexander Binnie and built by S. Pearson & Sons, between 1892 and 1897.

The same underlying mathematics, however, was also discovered independently several times: by George William Hill ( 1877 ), Gaston Floquet ( 1883 ), and Alexander Lyapunov ( 1892 ).

* George Alexander Hill ( 1892 – 1968 ), British intelligence officer

He graduated at the top of a class which included both Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, winning the Gold Medal for piano in 1892.

The poets, Christian Friedrich Alexander von Württemberg and Nikolaus Lenau were constant guests, and in 1826 Friederike Hauffe ( 1801 – 1829 ), the daughter of a forester in Prevorst, a somnambulist and clairvoyante, arrived ; she forms the subject of Kerner's famous work Die Seherin von Prevorst, Eröffnungen über das innere Leben des Menschen und über das Hineinragen einer Geisterwelt in die unsere ( The Seeress of Prevorst, revelations of the human inner life and about the penetrations of the spirit world into ours, 1829 ; 6th ed., 1892 ).

* July 23, 1892 – Alexander Berkman tries to kill American industrialist Henry Clay Frick in retaliation for Frick's hiring of Pinkerton detectives to break up the Homestead Strike, resulting in the deaths of seven steelworkers.