- February 9
- Canal builder De Lesseps and others sentenced to prison for fraud. [1]
- February 28
- Edward Acheson of Pennsylvania, USA, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum". [1]
- March 4
- Francis Dhanis' army attacks the Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe. [1]
- March 9
- Congo cannibals kill thousands of arabs. [1]
- March 10
- Ivory Coast becomes a French colony. [1]
- March 30
- Thomas F Bayard becomes first US ambassador in Great Britain. [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]
- May 1
- US President Grover Cleveland officially opens the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Constructed at a cost of $19 million, the fair is spread over 686 acres along Lake Michigan, with displays from 46 countries and 34 American states. The fair features the first Ferris wheel, first commercial movie theatre, first moving sidewalk, the debut of the automatic dishwasher, and the debut of the zipper. [117.19] [447.18] [676.47] [980.848] [1218.530] [1485.58] [1757.44]
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- 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 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) is discovered. [1]
- July 9
- Daniel H Williams performs "world's first successful heart operation". [1]
- July 11
- The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto. [5]
- July 15
- US Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Japan. [1]
- August 10
- Rudolf Diesel's prime model engine 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
- As of this date, the US is no longer allowed exclusive rights in the Bering Sea. [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 30
- The World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, USA closes. A total of 27 million people visited over four months. [447.18] [980.848] (October 31 [117.20])
- November 22
- In Zabrodii, Russia, a building is struck by a meteorite. [521]
- November 26
- The Exposicion de Puerto Rico opens in San Juan, Puerto Rico, celebrating the 400th anniversary of the island's discovery by Christopher Columbus. [1562.34]
- 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, Ontario, Canada); could go 15 miles between charges. [1]
- December 11
- Eleven fishing ships wash up from the Wadden Sea off Germany, 22 killed. [1]
- December 17
- Russia ratifies Duple Alliance with France. [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 8
- Columbus World's Fair in Chicago destroyed by fire. [1]
- January 13
- Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops. [1]
- January 30
- Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit, Michigan, USA. [1]
- US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by US Admiral Benham. [1]
- February 2
- US warship Kearsarge is wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island. [1]
- February 5
- Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam, Holland forms. [1]
- February 13
- Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector. [5]
- February 16
- British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast. [1]
- February 24
- Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of). [1]
- March 3
- Fourth and last British government of William Gladstone resigns. [1]
- March 4
- Great fire in Shanghai, China; over 1,000 buildings destroyed. [1]
- March 12
- In Vicksburg, Mississippi, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time. [5]
- March 17
- US and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US. [1]
- March 24
- 37 miners are killed at Franklin, Washington, USA. [1]
- April 5
- Eleven strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA. [1]
- April 12
- British and Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa. [1]
- April 14
- First commercial public showing of Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope. The Holland Bros Kinetoscope Parlor in New York, USA, shows five short films for 25 cents. [1] [55.62]
- May 16
- Fire in Boston, Massachusetts, USA destroys baseball stadium and spreads to 170 other buildings. [1]
- May 26
- Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player. [1]
- May 28
- Belgian Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern. [1]
- June 17
- First US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, in Rutland, Vermont. [1]
- June 22
- A decree of France creates Dahomey in Africa. [1143.141]
- 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 4
- Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of first US autos at 6 MPH. [1]
- Republic of Hawaii is established. [1]
- July 16
- Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley is signed between Japan and England. [1]
- September 15
- Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang. [1]
- October 17
- Ohio national guard kills three lynchers while rescuing a black man. [1]
- October 20
- French company Cie Novelle du Canal de Panama is incorporated. [1119.110]
- 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, France. [1]
- November 16
- 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan. [1]
- November 18
- First newspaper Sunday color comic section published (New York World). [1]
- November 20
- US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua. [1]
- December 9
- Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium. [1]
- December 22
- Dutch coast hit by hurricane. [1]
- French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated). [1]
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