1893

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Events of 1893

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 the government of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii.
January 21 - First performance of the Cherry Sisters in Marion, Iowa.
January 31 - Bohemia, NY The Bohemia Fire Department was founded, beginning service to the Towns of Bohema, and surrounding areas.
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 President Stephen Grover Cleveland.
March 10 - Côte d'Ivoire becomes a French colony.
March 20 - In Belgium, Adam Worth is sentenced to 7 years for robbery (he is released in 1897).
March 20 - The oldest living person Edna Parker is born.

April 1 - The rank of Chief Petty Officer is established in the United States Navy.
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, USA. The first United States commemorative postage stamps were issued for the Exposition. Pabst Beer won a blue ribbon during this event.
May 5 - Panic of 1893: Crash on the New York Stock Exchange 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.

June 22: Flagship Victoria sinks.

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 20 - The Wengernalpbahn railway in Wengen, Switzerland (Canton of Bern) is opened.
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.
June 27 - The NYSE crashes.

July 6 - The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa was nearly destroyed by a tornado: 71 people were killed and 200 injured.
July 11 - Kokichi Mikimoto, in Japan, develops the method to seed and grow cultured pearls.
July 12
- Frederick Jackson Turner gives lecture titled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" before the American Historical Association in Chicago.
- The Dundee FC, Scottish football club, is formed.

September 11 - Opening meeting of the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
September 19
- Swami Vivekananda delivered an inspiring speech on his paper at World Parliament of Religions in Chicago .

- New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote.
- Russian ironclad Rusalka disappears in a storm en route from Tallinn to Helsinki. Her hulk was discovered in July 2003, off Helsinki.
September 23 - First public mention of the Bahá'í Faith in the United States at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
September 27 - Closing meeting of the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
September 28 - Portuguese sports club Futebol Clube do Porto is founded.

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 - [UK] Local Government Act given second reading in House of Commons.
November 7 - Colorado women are granted the right to vote.
November 15 - FC Basel was founded.
December 5 - Plural voting abolished in New South Wales.