Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
January 1892 - The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle is published in the Strand Magazine
February 1892 - The Adventure of the Speckled Band is published in the Strand Magazine
March 1892 - The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb is published in the Strand Magazine
April 1892 - The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor is published in the Strand Magazine
May 1892 - The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet is published in the Strand Magazine
June 1892 - The Adventure of the Copper Beeches as published in the Strand Magazine
13th June 1892 - Birth of Basil Rathbone - Born Philip St. John Rathbone in Johannesburg, South Africa. The son of a mining engineer, ha and his family journeyed to England in 1896. Attending Repton School, the future Sherlock discovered a taste for acting, deciding that he wanted to pursue a theatrical career. He made his debut in 1911 in The Taming of the Shrew and first performed in London in 1914 at the Savoy Theatre in the play The Sin of David. Serving in World War I, he was awarded the Military Cross. In 1911, he appeared in his first film, The Fruitful Vine, produced by the Stoll Company that was famous for its Eille Norwood Holmes films.
1892 - A new series of stories is ask for. As the fifth Strand story was greeted by a stampede for the news-stands, Doyle wrote to his mother revealing that he intended to finish off Holmes in the twelfth tale - the end of his second contract - ‘winding him up for good and all... He takes my mind from better things.’ His mother, who had longed for the time when her son achieved recognition, was understandably mortified. ‘You won’t! You can’t! You mustn’t!’ she replied.
"They" - the editors of Strand - "have been bothering me for more Sherlock Holmes tales," Conan Doyle wrote to his mother in February, 1892. "Under pressure I offered to do a dozen for a thousand pounds, but I sincerely hope they won’t accept it now."
A thousand pounds was a very large payment in 1892, but accept it the Strand did, and Silver Blaze, the first of the new series, duly appeared in the December, 1892, issue of the magazine.
Early in the next year - but let Conan Doyle tell it himself: "I went with my wife for a short holiday in Switzerland, in the course of which we saw the wonderful falls of Reichenbach, a terrible place, and one that I thought would make a worthy tomb for Sherlock, even if I buried my banking account along with him..."
Back home, Conan Doyle on 6 April again wrote to his mother: "I am in the middle of the last Holmes story, after which the gentleman vanishes, never to return, I am weary of his name." And so "with a happy sigh of relief," he sat down to write the story he had hopefully titled The Final Problem.
"Killed Holmes," he noted laconically in his diary a short time later...
August 1892 - A Day with Dr. Conan Doyle by Harry How is printed in the Strand Magazine
14th October 1892 - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the first collection of short stories, is published in book form by George Newnes of London
December 1892 - An article is the Strand Magazine - Portraits of Celebrities on Mr George Newnes.
December 1892 - A Description of the Office of the Strand Magazine, an article in the Strand Magazine
December 1892 - The Adventure of Silver Blaze is published in the Strand Magazine
1892 - The Doings of Raffles Haw is published
1892 - The Doyles go to Norway with writer Jerome K. Jerome and Conan Doyle skis for the first time. Shortly after he helps introduce the sport in Switzerland
1892 - Conan Doyle's son Kingsley is born
December 1892 - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - A Review by Joseph Bell. This review was first published in the Bookman in December, it was reprinted the following year as the introduction to A Study in Scarlet.