1893

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s

Years: 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 - 1893 - 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Heads of State

Events

January 1 - Japan accepts the Gregorian calendar
January 13 - The Independent Labor 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 - Ivory Coast 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.
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
September 11 - Opening meeting of the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
September 27 - Closing meeting of the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
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.
Global financial panic (Panic of 1893)
Physicist Wilhelm Wien composes Wien's Law
France conquers Vietnam.

Births

January 5 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru
January 12 - Hermann GÃÂÃÂ¶ring, Nazi official (d. 1946)
January 12 - Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi official (d. 1946)
January 15 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician (d. 1951)
January 22 - Conrad Veidt, actor (d. 1943)
February 10 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillean (d. 1980)
February 11 - Johan Alberts Dutch literary figure.
February 12 - Omar Bradley, general (d. 1981)
March 3 - Beatrice Wood, artist/ceramist
March 26 - James Bryan Conant, chemist and politician (d. 1978)
April 3 - Leslie Howard, actor (d. 1943)
April 7 - Allen Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (d. 1969)
April 9 - Victor Gollancz, British publisher (d. 1967)
May 3 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 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 30 - Huey Long, Louisiana governor and senator
September 13 - Larry Shields, jazz musician (d. 1953)
October 1 - Marianne Brandt, industrial designer and Bauhaus participant
October 15 - King Carol II of Romania
November 8 - Clarence Williams, jazz musician (d. 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 (* 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

Heads of State

China - GuāngxÃÂÃÂ¹ Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1875-1908)
Denmark - Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
France - Marie FranÃÂÃÂ§ois Sadi Carnot, President of France (1887-1894)
Germany - Wilhelm II, German Kaiser (1888-1918)
Holy See - Pope Leo XIII, Bishop of Rome (1878-1903)
Japan - Mutsuhito, Meiji Emperor (1867-1912)
Norway - Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway (1872-1905)
Ottoman Empire - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909)
Russia - Alexander III, Tsar of Russia (1881-1894)
Spain - Alfonso XIII of Spain, King of Spain (1886-1931)
United States -
1. Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States (1889-1893)
2. Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (1893-1897)