1893

Years: 1890 1891 1892 - 1893 - 1894 1895 1896
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1893 in art 1893 in film 1893 in literature 1893 in music 1893 in science 1893 in sports List of state leaders in 1893 List of religious leaders in 1893

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

January 1 - Japan accepts the Gregorian calendar
January 13 - The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting.
January 17 - American sugar planters overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii
February 1 - Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio (West Orange, New Jersey).
February 21 - Thomas Edison received two U.S. patents. The first was for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps" and another for a "Stop Device" (No. 491,992-3). Also No. 492,150 for "Process of Coating Conductors for Incandescent Lamps."
February 23 - Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine
March 4 - End of term for President of the United States Benjamin Harrison. He is succeeded by Stephen Grover Cleveland.
March 10 - Côte d'Ivoire becomes a French colony
May 1 - The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The first United States commemorative postage stamps were issued for the Exposition.
May 9 - First public demonstration of Edison's 1 1/2" system of Kinetoscope at the Brooklyn Institute.
June 6 - Marriage of Prince George, Duke of York and Mary of Teck.
June 22 – Flagship Victoria of the British Mediterranean Fleet collides with Camperdown and sinks in 10 minutes - vice-admiral Sir George Tryon goes down with it
July 11 - Kokichi Mikimoto develops the method to achieve cultured pearls.
July 12 - Frederick Jackson Turner gives his famous lecture entitled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" before the American Historical Association in Chicago
August 28 – Hurricane in Savannah, Charleston and Seal Island – about 100 dead
September 11 - Opening meeting of the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
September 19 – Russian ironclad Rusalka disappears in a storm enroute from Tallinn to Helsinki (hulk found July 2003 off Helsinki)
September 27 - Closing meeting of the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
October 10 – First car number plates in Paris, France
October 30 - The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World Columbian Exposition, closes.
November 7 - Colorado women are granted the right to vote.
New Zealand becomes first country in the world to grant women the vote.
Global financial panic (Panic of 1893)
Physicist Wilhelm Wien composes Wien's Law
France conquers Vietnam.
General strike in Belgium
Milbank Penitentiary in Britain demolished
US President Cleveland operated on in secret

Births

January 5 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru
January 12 - Hermann Göring, Nazi official († 1946)
January 12 - Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi official († 1946)
January 15 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician († 1951)
January 22 - Conrad Veidt, actor († 1943)
February 10 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillean († 1980)
February 11 - Johan Alberts Dutch literary figure.
February 12 - Omar Bradley, general († 1981)
February 21 - Andrés Segovia, musician († 1987)
March 1 - Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite († 1968)
March 3 - Beatrice Wood, artist/ceramist
March 26 - James Bryan Conant, chemist and politician († 1978)
April 3 - Leslie Howard, actor († 1943)
April 7 - Allen Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency († 1969)
April 9 - Victor Gollancz, British publisher († 1967)
May 3 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor († 1975)
June 24 - Roy Oliver Disney, older brother and business partner of Walter Elias Disney
June 26 - Big Bill Broonzy
July 3 - Mississippi John Hurt
August 15 - Leslie Comrie, astronomer and computing pioneer († 1950)
August 30 - Huey Long, Louisiana governor and senator
September 13 - Larry Shields, jazz musician († 1953)
October 1 - Marianne Brandt, industrial designer and Bauhaus participant († 1983)
October 15 - King Carol II of Romania
November 8 - Clarence Williams, jazz musician († 1965)
December 26 - Mao Zedong, Chinese leader
Clement Martyn Doke (1893-1980) South African linguist
Blind Blake - influential blues singer

Deaths

January 2 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist
January 7 - Jožef Stefan;, Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet (b. 1835)
January 17 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States
January 23 - Lucius Lamar, United States Supreme Court justice
February 20 - P.G.T. Beauregard, Confederate general
March 30 - Jane Sym-Mackenzie, First Lady of Canada
October 10 - Lip Pike, baseball player