- Jul 4 James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house
- Jul 4 Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4
Wimbledon Men's Championship
Jul 4 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Defending champion Wilfred Baddeley beats Joshua Pim 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2
- Jul 6 Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain
La Liga Filipina
Jul 6 Jose Rizal forms political group La Liga Filipina in Manila
- Jul 6 Striking steel workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania, fire on scabs, killing 7
- Jul 7 Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established leading to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia
Wimbledon Women's Championship
Jul 7 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Bingley-Hillyard for a 4th time in a Wimbledon final 6-1, 6-1
- Jul 8 American Psychological Association organized in Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
- Jul 8 St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892
Incandescent Lamp Controversy
Jul 11 US Patent Office says Joseph Swan rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp
- Jul 18 First human test of a vaccine against cholera; Ukrainian bacteriologist Waldemar Huffkine risks his life by testing it on himself
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