Timeline January 1892

Events in January 1892 9

• 1834 – 1892 Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) Died 31 January 1892, aged 57 Charles Spurgeon was a Baptist preacher whose sermons at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London drew thousands and were widely published internationally. He remains one of the most quoted preachers in the English-speaking world.
• 1864 – 1892 Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (1864-1892) Died 14 January 1892, aged 28 Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of the future King Edward VII and second in line to the British throne, died of influenza during a pandemic sweeping Europe. His death altered the line of succession, placing his younger brother George, later King George V, next after their father.
• 1892 Ellis Island opens as US immigration station Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant processed Ellis Island in New York Harbor opened as the primary federal immigration inspection station for the United States. Fifteen-year-old Irish immigrant Annie Moore was the first person processed there. Over the following decades it became the gateway for millions of immigrants entering the country.
• 1892 – 1973 J. R. R. Tolkien English fantasy writer Tolkien created The Lord of the Rings, defining modern epic fantasy literature and world-building.
• 1892 – 1973 J.R.R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English author, philologist and academic whose creation of Middle-earth — its languages, histories, myths and peoples — constitutes one of the most sustained acts of world-building in literary history. A professor of Anglo-Saxon and later English Language and Literature at Oxford, Tolkien spent forty years constructing a mythology he called 'a mythology for England,' rooted in Old English, Norse and Finnish literary traditions. The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55) transformed fantasy literature and have sold over 600 million copies combined. He died before completing The Silmarillion, which his son Christopher edited and published posthumously in 1977.
• 1892 J.R.R. Tolkien born in Bloemfontein, South Africa John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is born on 3 January 1892 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now South Africa), where his father Arthur Tolkien is a bank manager. The family is English; Bloemfontein is a colonial outpost of the British Empire. Ronald — as he is always called — finds the South African climate harsh and the landscape alien. He returns to England with his mother Mabel and brother Hilary in 1895 when Ronald is three, while Arthur remains in Bloemfontein. Arthur Tolkien dies of rheumatic fever in February 1896 before the family can return.
• 1892 The Coca-Cola Company incorporated Asa Candler formalizes ownership of the drink Pharmacist Asa Candler incorporated the Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia, after buying full rights to the drink's formula. The company grew from a local soda fountain product into one of the world's best-known brands.
• 1892 – 1964 Eddie Cantor (1892-1964) American comedian, singer and actor, a star of Ziegfeld's Follies, early radio and television, and founder of the March of Dimes name.
• 1892 Eddie Cantor born in New York Eddie Cantor is born in New York.