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| 1892 |
| | Oscar Wilde's comedy Lady Windermere's Fan is a great success with audiences in London's St. James Theatre | |
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| 1892 |
| | The Ohio Supreme Court rules that monopolistic practices by Rockefeller's oil company are illegal | |
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| 1892 |
| | San Francisco businessmen found an organization to protect nature, the Sierra Club of California, a powerful environmental pressure group | |
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| 1892 |
| | W.B. Yeats founds the National Literary Society in Dublin, with Douglas Hyde as its first president | |
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| 1892 |
| | The French establish a protectorate in part of the ancient kingdom of Dahomey in west Africa | |
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| 1892 |
| | W.B. Yeats publishes a short play The Countess Cathleen, his first contribution to Irish poetic drama | |
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| 1892 |
| | Bernard Shaw's first play, Widowers' Houses, deals with the serious social problem of slum landlords | |
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| 1892 |
| | Keir Hardie wins the London seat of West Ham, becoming the first Labour member of the House of Commons | |
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| 1892 |
| | Leaves of Grass, still growing, is published in its ninth edition in the year of Walt Whitman's death | |
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| 1892 |
| | Gladstone, becoming prime minister for the fourth time, is described by the queen as 'an old, wild and incomprehensible man of eighty two and a half' | |
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