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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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| 1892 |
| | | The closing of the Homestead Steel Works near Pittsburgh in a dispute with unions leads to massive confrontation and violence | |
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| 1892 |
| | | The Falkland Islands, by now occupied by some 2000 settlers, become a British colony | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first football pro when the Allegheny Athletic Association pay him $500 to play a game in their team | |
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