1893 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1893?
- January 6, 1893 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
- January 13, 1893 – The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
- January 17, 1893 – The Citizen’s Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
- February 28, 1893 – The USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
- March 18, 1893 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
- April 1, 1893 – The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
- April 6, 1893 – Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
- April 8, 1893 – The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
- May 1, 1893 – The World’s Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
- May 10, 1893 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.
- June 7, 1893 – Mohandas Gandhi’s first act of civil disobedience.
- June 22, 1893 – 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.
- July 11, 1893 – A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua.
- August 14, 1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
- September 19, 1893 – 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.
- October 28, 1893 – Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its première performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer’s death.
- November 12, 1893 – 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 nations.
- November 28, 1893 – Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
- December 4, 1893 – First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Police officers is killed in battle by an estimated 3,000 Ndebele on the Shangani River in Matabeleland.
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