The Great Fire of 1892 devastates the…

The United States surpasses Britain in sugar consumption in 1892 to become the worlds' leading consumer.

Hawaii's Princess Ka'iulani tries very hard to prevent her country from becoming part of the United States.

Gauguin, disappointed by the extent to which French colonization has actually corrupted Tahiti, attempts to immerse himself in what he believes are the authentic aspects of the culture.

He employs Tahitian titles, such as Fatata te miti ("Near the Sea", 1892; Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.) and Manao tupapau ("The Spirit of the Dead Watching", 1892; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York), uses Oceanic iconography, and portrays idyllic landscapes and suggestive spiritual settings.

In an attempt to further remove himself from inherited Western conventions, Gauguin now emulates Oceanic traditions in his sculptures and woodcuts, imparting to them a deliberately rough-hewn look.

A reported one hundred and sixty-five thousand cases of smallpox have occurred in the Japanese Archipelago in the twenty years since Japan’s institution of compulsory smallpox vaccination in 1876.

The Guangxu Emperor tries to implement a series of draconian measures to reduce expenditures by the Imperial Household Department in 1892, which proves to be one of his few administrative successes—he had apparently had been instilled with the importance of frugality while growing up—but it was only a partial victory, as he has to approve higher expenditures than he would have liked to meet Cixi's needs.

Saint Petersburg, having become alarmed at its growing isolation, enters into the Franco-Russian Alliance in 1892, as Bismarck had feared, thus bringing to an end the French isolation.

Edvard Munch's own deeply original style crystallizes in Berlin, where he lives mainly from 1892.

The flowing, tortuous use of line in his new paintings, serves not as decoration but as a vehicle for profound psychological revelation.

In The Kiss by the Window (1892, Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo), a man and woman are locked in a tender and passionate embrace, their bodies merging into a single undulating form and their faces melting so completely into each other that neither retains any individual features.

The outraged incomprehension of his work by Norwegian critics is echoed by their counterparts in Berlin when Munch exhibits a large number of his paintings there in 1892 at the invitation of the Union of Berlin Artists.

The violent emotion and unconventional imagery of his paintings, especially their daringly frank representations of sexuality, create a bitter controversy.

Critics are also offended by his innovative technique, which to most appears unfinished.

The scandal, however, helps make his name known throughout Germany, and from there his reputation spreads farther.

Graduates of Aligarh generally make their careers initially in administration, not politics, and thus are not greatly affected by the introduction of representative institutions at the provincial level by the India Councils Act of 1892.

The South West Africa Company Ltd (SWAC) is established in 1892 by the German, British, and Cape Colony governments, aided by financiers to raise the capital required to enlarge mineral exploitation (specifically, the Damaraland concession's copper deposit interests).

A diamond weighing 969.8 carats, later to be called the Excelsior, is found in 1893 at the Jagersfontein Mine in South Africa, one hundred and thirty kilometers (eighty-one miles) south east of Kimberley, whose fame as a diamond mining center will always overshadow that of Jagersfontein.

It has a blue-white tint and weighs 971 old carats or 995.2 metric carats (or 194 grams).

The Excelsior rates as the third largest rough diamond of gem quality ever found.

It will ultimately be cut into ten stones weighing from thirteen to sixty-eight carats. (two point six to thirteeen point six grams).