1893: Encyclopedia II - 1893 - Events

1893 - Events

• January 1 - Japan accepts the Gregorian calendar
• January 2 - Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: Railroad chronometers
• January 13 - The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting.
• January 17 - Intervention by the U.S. Marines in Hawaii, resulting in overthrow of government of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii
• January 21 - First "performance" of the Cherry sisters in Marion, Iowa. Their neighbors are uncritical and the sisters decide to launch a tour
• February 1 - Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio (West Orange, New Jersey).
• February 21 - Thomas Edison receives two U.S. patents. The first is 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
• March 20 - In Belgium, Adam Worth is sentenced for seven year for robbery (he is released 1897)
• April 8 - First recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania between the Geneva College Covenanters and the New Brighton YMCA.
• May 1 - The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The first United States commemorative postage stamps were issued for the Exposition.
• May 5 - Panic of 1893: Crash on the New York Stock Exchange starts a depression.
• 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 7 Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
• 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 6 - The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa was nearly destroyed by a tornado. Seventy-one people were killed and two hundred were injured.
• 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
• June 20 - Lizzie Borden acquitted of murder of her father and stepmother
• June 22 – Flagship HMS Victoria of the British Mediterranean Fleet collides with HMS Camperdown and sinks in 10 minutes - vice-admiral Sir George Tryon goes down with it
• August 27 - The Sea Islands Hurricane hits Savannah, Charleston and the Sea Islands; 1000-2000 dead.
• September 11 - Opening meeting of the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
• September 19 - Russian ironclad Rusalka disappears in a storm en route 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's Columbian Exposition, closes.
• November 7 - Colorado women are granted the right to vote.

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• New Zealand becomes first country in the world to grant women the vote.
• American Council on Alcohol Problems established.
• Global financial panic (Panic of 1893)
• Physicist Wilhelm Wien composes Wien's Law
• France conquers Vietnam.
• General strike in Belgium
• American Temperance University opened.
• Milbank Penitentiary in Britain demolished
• US President Cleveland operated on in secret
• The Wengernalpbahn in Wengen, Switzerland (Canton of Bern) is opened.
• Athletic Club Královské Vinohrady is founded. Later the team was renamed to Sparta Prague
• Anti-Saloon League established in U.S. to promote temperance movement
• Committee of Fifty for the Study of the Liquor Problem established.

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