- January 10
- Richard Drigo's ballet "The Magic Flute" premieres, Saint Petersburg. [1]
- January 13
- British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader). [1]
- January 17
- Queen Liliuokalani deposed, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic. [1]
- January 28
- Edward Mcdowell's "Hamlet and Ophelia" premieres in Boston. [1]
- January 31
- "Westminster Gazette" begins publishing. [1]
- February 1
- Giacomo Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut" premieres in Turin. [1]
- Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey. [1] [5]
- February 2
- First movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange New Jersey. [1]
- February 9
- Canal builder De Lesseps and others sentenced to prison for fraud. [1]
- Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan. [1]
- February 26
- Two Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Michigan. [1]
- February 28
- Edward Acheson, Pennsylvania, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum". [1]
- March 1
- Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the US rank of ambassador. [1]
- March 2
- First federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features. [1]
- March 3
- Columbian Isabella silver quarter authorized. [1]
- US Congress authorizes first federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture. [1]
- March 4
- Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe. [1]
- Grover Cleveland (Democrat) inaugrated as 24th US President (second term). [1]
- March 9
- Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs. [1]
- March 10
- Ivory Coast becomes a French colony. [1]
- New Mexico State University cancels its first graduation ceremony, as its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed and killed the night before. [1]
- March 30
- Thomas F Bayard becomes first US ambassador in Great Britain. [1]
- April 5
- Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks). [1]
- April 6
- Mormon temple in Salt Lake City dedicated. [1]
- April 8
- The Critic reports that the ice cream soda is our national drink. [1]
- April 12
- Battle at Hoornkrans Southwest-Africa German Schutztruppen chases away Hottentotten under Hendrik Witbooi. [1]
- April 22
- Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo. [1]
- Paul Kruger elected President of Transvaal for third time. [1]
- April 26
- First Cleveland Board of Park Commissioners forms. [1]
- May 1
- World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago, Illinois, USA. [117.19] [447.18] [676.47]
- May 4
- Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging. [1]
- May 5
- Panic of 1893: Great crash on New York Stock Exchange. [1]
- May 10
- Imperial Institute in London opens. [1]
- May 19
- Heavy rain washes "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway). [1]
- May 27
- Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland. [1]
- June 1
- The opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin). [1]
- June 21
- First Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition). [1]
- June 22
- A few miles off the Syrian port of Tripoli, English battleships HMS Victoria and Camperdown collide almost head-on. Victoria sinks in 13 minutes, taking 22 officers and 363 men. [696.46]
- June 30
- Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered. [1]
- July 4
- A Borrelly discovers asteroid #369 Aeria. [1]
- July 9
- Daniel H Williams performs "world's first successful heart coperation". [1]
- July 11
- The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto. [5]
- July 14
- A Charlois discovers asteroid #370 Modestia. [1]
- July 15
- Commodore Perry arrives in Japan. [1]
- July 16
- A Charlois discovers asteroid #371 Bohemia. [1]
- August 7
- 53rdUS Congress (1893-95) convenes. [1]
- August 10
- Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act. [1]
- Rudolf Diesel's prime model first runs on its own power. [5]
- August 14
- Paris Police Ordinance (France) issues first driving licenses, includes required test. [1] [5] [55.51]
- August 15
- US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea. [1]
- September 11
- Bronx Gas and Electric Company opens on Frisby and Tremont Ave. [1]
- September 16
- Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opened to white settlement homesteaders. [1]
- September 19
- The Electoral Act gives all women in New Zealand the right to vote. [5]
- September 21
- Frank Duryea drives first US-made gas-propelled vehicle (car). [1]
- October 1
- Third worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi). [1]
- October 9
- "Chicago Day" at the World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Attendance is 751,026, largest single-day attendance for any peace-time event in history. [117.20]
- October 27
- Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Georgia and Charleston South Carolina. [1]
- October 31
- The World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois closes. [117.20] (October 30 [447.18])
- November 22
- In Zabrodii, Russia, a building is struck by a meteorite. [521]
- November 28
- Women vote in a national election for the first time: The New Zealand general election. [5]
- December 3
- Ndebeles destroy Rhodesia. [1]
- December 5
- First electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges. [1]
- December 11
- Eleven fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed. [1]
- December 15
- Dvoráks "From the New World" premieres at Carnegie Hall New York City. [1]
- December 16
- Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres. [1]
- December 17
- Russia ratifies Duple Alliance with France. [1]
- December 20
- First state anti-lynching statute approved, in Georgia. [1]
- December 23
- The opera "Hansel und Gretel" is produced (Weimar). [1]
- December 24
- Henry Ford completes his first useful gas motor. [1]
- December 28
- French lieutenant Boiteux annexes Tumbuktu. [1]
- December 30
- Russia signs military accord with France. [1]
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- January 1
- Denmark adopts Mid-European time. [1]
- Manchester Ship Canal in England opens to traffic. [1]
- January 4
- France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia. [1]
- January 7
- Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing. [1]
- January 8
- Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire. [1]
- January 9
- "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters. [1]
- Georges Feydeau's "Un à la Patte" premieres in Paris. [1]
- January 13
- Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops. [1]
- January 23
- G W Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 minutes. [1]
- January 30
- Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit. [1]
- US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Admiral Benham. [1]
- February 2
- US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island. [1]
- February 3
- First US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath Maine. [1]
- February 5
- Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms. [1]
- February 8
- Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks. [1]
- February 13
- Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector. [5]
- February 14
- Venus is both a morning star and evening star. [1]
- February 16
- British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast. [1]
- February 24
- Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of). [1]
- March 3
- First Greek-language publication in US begins, "New York Atlantis". [1]
- 4th and last British government of Gladstone resigns. [1]
- March 4
- Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed. [1]
- March 5
- Seattle authorizes first municipal employment office in US. [1]
- March 8
- New York passes first state dog license law. [1]
- March 12
- In Vicksburg, Mississippi, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time. [5]
- March 13
- J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate. [1]
- March 16
- Jules Massenet's opera "Thaïs" premieres in Paris France. [1]
- March 17
- US and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US. [1]
- March 24
- 37 miners killed at Franklin Washington. [1]
- March 25
- Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon Ohio for Washington DC. [1]
- April 5
- Eleven strikers killed in riot at Connellsville Pennsylvania. [1]
- April 9
- First performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz. [1]
- April 12
- British and Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa. [1]
- April 14
- First public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures). [1]
- April 19
- Jules Massenet's opera "Werther", premieres in New York City. [1]
- April 20
- 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase. [1]
- April 21
- George Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man", premieres in London. [1]
- April 29
- Commonwealth of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Washington DC 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol. [1]
- May 11
- American Railroad Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co. [1]
- May 12
- Ludwig Englander's musical "Passing Show" premieres in New York City. [1]
- May 14
- Fire in the Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings. [1]
- May 23
- William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal. [1]
- May 26
- Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player. [1]
- May 28
- Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern. [1]
- June 17
- First US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont. [1]
- June 21
- Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company. [1]
- June 28
- Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday. [1]
- June 30
- The Prince of Wales officially opens the Tower Bridge in London, England. [511.50]
- Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid. [1]
- July 2
- Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers. [1]
- July 4
- Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of first US autos at 6 MPH. [1]
- Republic of Hawaii established. [1]
- July 6
- Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike. [1]
- July 16
- Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners. [1]
- Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan and England. [1]
- July 20
- 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike. [1]
- August 18
- US Congress creates Bureau of Immigration. [1]
- September 15
- Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang. [1]
- September 27
- Aqueduct racetrack opens in New York. [1]
- October 1
- Civic organization, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben founded in Omaha, Nebraska. [1]
- October 17
- Ohio national guard kills three lynchers while rescuing a black man. [1]
- October 29
- First election of the Hawaiian Republic. [1]
- October 30
- Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially. [5]
- November 1
- Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris. [1]
- November 16
- 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan. [1]
- November 17
- Daily Racing Form founded. [1]
- November 18
- First newspaper Sunday color comic section published (New York World). [1]
- November 20
- US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua. [1]
- November 25
- Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in Indianapolis. [1]
- December 5
- Georges Feydeaus' "L'hôtel du libre échange" premieres in Paris. [1]
- December 9
- Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium. [1]
- December 22
- Debussy's "Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faune" premieres. [1]
- Dutch coast hit by hurricane. [1]
- French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated). [1]
- December 23
- Debussy's ballet "L'aprés-midi d'un faune" premieres in Paris. [1]
- December 24
- Scheveningse fishing boats destroyed by storm. [1]
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