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1893 (''' MDCCCXCIII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
January-June
- January 1 - Japan accepts the Gregorian Calendar
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- 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. Patent s. 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 Stamp s were issued for the Exposition.
- starts a Depression .
- May 9 - First public demonstration of Edison's 1½ inch system of Kinetoscope at the Brooklyn Institute .
- May 10 - The United States Supreme Court legally declares the Tomato to be a Vegetable .
- May 24 - The Niagara Falls Park And River Railway opens.
- June 6 - Marriage of Prince George , Duke Of York and Mary Of Teck .
- June 7 Gandhi 's first act of civil disobedience.
- June 17 Gold found in Kalgoorlie Western Australia
- 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-December
Exact month/day of event unknown
January
April
Exact month/day of birth unknown
Deaths
- January 2 - John Obadiah Westwood , British entomologist
- January 7 - Jožef Stefan , Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet (b. 1835 )
- January 17 - Rutherford B. Hayes , 19th President Of The United States
- January 23 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar , U.S. Supreme Court justice
- February 1 - George Henry Sanderson , Mayor of San Francisco
- February 20 - P.G.T. Beauregard , American Confederate general
- March 30 - Jane Sym-Mackenzie , First Lady of Canada
- June 21 - Amasa Leland Stanford , Governor of California
- June 23 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone , South African statesman (b. 1817 )
- October 10 - Lip Pike , baseball player
- October 18 - Charles Gounod , French composer (b. 1818 )
- October 30 - Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott , Canadian politician
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