1893 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1893?
- 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.
- January 21, 1893 – The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
- 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.
- 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 13, 1893 – Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president’s death.
- July 11, 1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
- July 25, 1893 – The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time.
- August 14, 1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
- September 16, 1893 – Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
- 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.
- September 20, 1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
- 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.
- November 29, 1893 – The 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.
- 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.
- December 23, 1893 – The opera Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
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