Timeline September 1892

Events in September 1892 2

• 1807 – 1892 John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) Died 7 September 1892, aged 84 John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and prominent abolitionist whose verse, including "Snow-Bound," was widely read in nineteenth-century America. He was among the group known as the Fireside Poets.
• 1892 Panama Canal financial scandal becomes public French press exposes corruption in canal company collapse French newspapers revealed that officials and journalists had been bribed to conceal the financial collapse of Ferdinand de Lesseps' Panama Canal Company, which had ruined hundreds of thousands of small investors. The ensuing scandal implicated politicians and discredited parliamentary institutions in France.