Notable Historical Events - 1893
1893 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
1st US college extension courses for credit, Univ of Chicago |
Jan 1 |
Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar |
Jan 1 |
The railway line from Germiston to Pretoria, South Africa, is opened to traffic. |
Jan 2 |
1st US commemoratives & 1st US stamp to picture a woman issued (Queen Isabella, patron of Columbus) |
Jan 2 |
World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago [or 0501] |
Jan 4 |
US pres Cleveland grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy |
Jan 6 |
Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast |
Jan 6 |
The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison. |
Jan 7 |
Hermann Sudermanns "Heimat," premieres in Berlin |
Jan 10 |
Richard Drigo's ballet "Magic Flute" premieres, St Petersburg |
Jan 11 |
Jaap Eden skates world record 1500m (2:35) |
Jan 13 |
British Independent Labour Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader) |
Jan 13 |
U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. |
Jan 17 |
-17°F (-27°C), Millsboro, Delaware (state record) |
Jan 17 |
Queen Liliuokalani deposed, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic |
Jan 19 |
Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder premieres in Berlin. |
Jan 21 |
The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, was formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate which is now Botswana. |
Jan 28 |
Edward Mcdowell's "Hamlet & Ophelia," premieres in Boston |
Jan 31 |
"Westminster Gazette" begins publishing |
Feb 1 |
Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut," premieres in Turin |
Feb 1 |
Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ) |
Feb 2 |
1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ |
Feb 5 |
Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec) |
Feb 9 |
Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prison for fraud |
Feb 9 |
Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan |
Feb 24 |
The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States of America. |
Feb 26 |
2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Mich |
Feb 26 |
Einar Halvorsen skates world record 500m (48 sec) |
Feb 28 |
Edward Acheson, Penn, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum" |
Mar 1 |
Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the US rank of ambassador |
Mar 2 |
1st federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features |
Mar 3 |
Columbian Isabella silver quarter authorized |
Mar 3 |
Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Dept of Agriculture |
Mar 4 |
Francis Dhanis' army attacks the Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe |
Mar 4 |
Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th US President (2nd term) |
Mar 9 |
Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs |
Mar 10 |
Ivory Coast becomes a French colony |
Mar 10 |
New Mexico State University cancels its 1st graduation ceremony; its only graduand Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night before |
Mar 30 |
Thomas F Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in Great Britain |
Apr 3 |
1st NSW v Queensland F-C game, at Brisbane Exhibition Ground |
Apr 5 |
Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks) |
Apr 6 |
Andy Bowen & Jack Burke box 7 hrs 19 mins to no decision (111 rounds) |
Apr 6 |
Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City dedicated |
Apr 8 |
The Critic reports that ice cream soda is our national drink |
Apr 12 |
Battle at Hoornkrans Southwest-Africa: German Schutztruppen chases away Hottentotten under Hendrik Witbooi |
Apr 22 |
Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo |
Apr 22 |
Paul Kruger elected president of Transvaal for 3rd time |
Apr 26 |
1st Cleveland Board of Park Commissioners forms |
Apr 27 |
Richard "King Dick" Seddon succeeds John Balance as premier of New Zealand and leader of Liberal Party |
May 1 |
World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago |
May 4 |
Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging |
May 5 |
Panic of 1893: Great crash on NY Stock Exchange |
May 10 |
19th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Kunze aboard Lookout wins in 2:39.25 |
May 10 |
Imperial Institute in London opens |
May 11 |
Henri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle-world record (35.325 km) |
May 19 |
Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway) |
May 22 |
Montreal Athletic Association beat Ottawa Generals 2-1, in 1st Cup Game |
May 27 |
Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland |
May 31 |
Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening (zipper) |
Jun 1 |
Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin) |
Jun 7 |
Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience. |
Jun 10 |
27th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Commanche wins in 1:53.25 |
Jun 16 |
RW Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack |
Jun 19 |
Lizzie Bordon acquitted |
Jun 20 |
Lizzie Borden acquitted in murder of parents in New Bedford Mass |
Jun 21 |
1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition) |
Jun 22 |
British fleet under Vice Admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut |
Jun 27 |
Great stock crash on NY stock exchange |
Jun 30 |
Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered |
Jul 1 |
SF Bay City Club opens 1st US bicycle race track, made of wood |
Jul 6 |
The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200. |
Jul 9 |
Daniel Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery without anesthesia |
Jul 11 |
The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto. |
Jul 11 |
A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua. |
Jul 15 |
Commodore Perry arrives in Japan |
Jul 17 |
Arthur Shrewsbury is 1st to score 1,000 runs in Test Cricket |
Jul 18 |
Harry Graham scores 107 on cricket debut Australia v England, Lord's |
Jul 20 |
10th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats B Hillyard (6-8 6-1 6-4) |
Jul 20 |
17th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Joshua Pim beats Wilfred Baddeley (3-6 6-1 6-3 6-2) |
Jul 22 |
Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" in Colorado |
Jul 24 |
For only time in history of US Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago |
Jul 28 |
A petition demanding women's suffrage is delivered to the New Zealand parliament; it is signed by more 25,000 women, about a 5th of the entire adult European female population |
Jul 31 |
Henry Perky patents shredded wheat |
Jul 31 |
Gaelic League is founded by Douglas Hyde and Eoin MacNeill in order to encourage Irish people to speak the language and take a greater interest in their culture |
Aug 1 |
Henry Perky & William Ford patent shredded wheat |
Aug 7 |
53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes |
Aug 9 |
1st US bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in NY |
Aug 10 |
Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act |
Aug 10 |
Rudolf Diesel's prime model internal combustion engine, a single 10-foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time in Augsburg, Germany |
Aug 14 |
France introduces motor vehicle registration, includes a driving test |
Aug 15 |
US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea |
Aug 20 |
Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland |
Aug 24 |
Tornado destroys coast of Savannah & Charleston, about 1000 die |
Aug 30 |
13rd US Men's Tennis: Robert D Wrenn beats Fred H Hovey (6-4 3-6 6-4 6-4) |
Sep 1 |
Gladstones' Second Home Rule Bill for Ireland passes in the House of Commons but vetoed by The House of Lords by 419 votes to 41 |
Sep 4 |
English author Beatrix Potter first writes the story of Peter Rabbit for a 5 year old boy |
Sep 11 |
Bronx Gas & Electric Company opens on Frisby & Tremont Ave |
Sep 11 |
Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago) |
Sep 11 |
First conference of the World Parliament of Religions is held. |
Sep 16 |
Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opens white settlement homesteaders |
Sep 19 |
New Zealand is first country to grant all women the right to vote |
Sep 21 |
Frank Duryea drives 1st US made gas propelled vehicle (car) |
Sep 22 |
1st auto built in US (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield |
Oct 1 |
3rd worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi) |
Oct 6 |
Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat |
Oct 13 |
Vigilant (US) beats Valkyrie II (England) in 9th America's Cup |
Oct 14 |
George Edwarde's "Gaiety Girl" premieres in London |
Oct 14 |
Harry Wright suggests umps keep ball-strike count a secret |
Oct 23 |
C Dazey's "In Old Kentucky" premieres in NYC (27 seasons) |
Oct 25 |
Battle of Shangani, Matabeleland: Dr Jameson beats Ndebeles |
Oct 27 |
Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Ga & Charleston SC |
Oct 28 |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts first performance of his Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique" |
Oct 30 |
US Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 |
Nov 4 |
Dr Jamesons Legertje occupies Bulawayo Matabeleland |
Nov 7 |
US State Colorado accepts female suffrage |
Nov 12 |
The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan - the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two sister nations. |
Nov 14 |
Gerhart Hauptmann's "Hanneles Himmelfahrt" premieres in Berlin |
Nov 18 |
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Providentissimus Deus |
Nov 19 |
1st newspaper color supplement (NY World) |
Nov 28 |
Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election. |
Nov 29 |
Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government. |
Dec 5 |
1st electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges |
Dec 11 |
11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed |
Dec 15 |
Dvoráks "From the New World" premieres at Carnegie Hall NYC |
Dec 16 |
Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres |
Dec 17 |
Russia ratifies Double Alliance with France |
Dec 20 |
1st state anti-lynching statute approved, in Georgia |
Dec 23 |
Opera "Hansel und Gretel" is produced (Weimar) |
Dec 24 |
Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor |
Dec 28 |
French lieutenant Boiteux annexes Tumbuktu |
Dec 30 |
Russia signs military accord with France |
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