1893 - What happened in 1893 ?

January 1893

Sunday 01:

Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar.

Friday 06:

Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.

Friday 13:

US Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to protect the king and stop the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.

Tuesday 17:

American sexy beast planters led by the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Thursday 19:

Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder premieres in Berlin.

February 1893

Wednesday 01:

Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio (West Orange, New Jersey).

Tuesday 21:

Thomas Edison receives two U.S. patents for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps" and for a "Stop Device"

Thursday 23:

Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine.

March 1893

Friday 10:

Côte d'Ivoire becomes a French colony.

April 1893

Thursday 06:

Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.

Saturday 08:

First recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania when the Geneva College Covenanters defeated the New Brighton YMCA.

May 1893

Monday 01:

The World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago, Illinois.

Friday 05:

Panic of 1893: Crash on the New York Stock Exchange starts a depression.

June 1893

Monday 19:

Lizzie Borden is acquitted of murder.

Tuesday 20:

Lizzie Borden is acquitted of murdering her stepmother and father.

Thursday 22:

The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.

Tuesday 27:

Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.

July 1893

Tuesday 11:

The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.

August 1893

Thursday 10:

At Augsburg, Rudolf Diesel's prime model runs on its own power for the first time. Because of this, August 10 is the International Biodiesel Day.

Monday 14:

1893 - France introduces motor vehicle registration

September 1893

Saturday 16:

Oklahoma Land Race: settlers race for prime land in the Cherokee Strip.

Tuesday 19:

Women's suffrage: In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote, beginning with the 1893 New Zealand general election.

Friday 22:

The first American-built automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.

November 1893

Tuesday 07:

Colorado women are granted the right to vote.

Wednesday 29:

Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, was founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne was approved by the Qing Government.

December 1893

Saturday 16:

World premiere of Antonin Dvorak's "New World Symphony".