List of 1893 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1893
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 6, 1893 | The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. |
| January 13, 1893 | The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting. |
| January 13, 1893 | U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. |
| January 17, 1893 | Lorrin A. Thurston, along with the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety, led the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the government of Queen Liliʻuokalani. |
| January 21, 1893 | The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana. |
| February 1, 1893 | Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey. |
| February 9, 1893 | Verdi's last opera, Falstaff premieres at La Scala, Milan. |
| March 1, 1893 | Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri. |
| June 5, 1893 | The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts. |
| June 13, 1893 | Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death. |
| June 20, 1893 | Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother. |
| 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 9, 1893 | Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia. |
| July 11, 1893 | The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto. |
| July 11, 1893 | A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua. |
| July 22, 1893 | Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| August 1, 1893 | Henry Perky patents shredded wheat. |
| August 14, 1893 | France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration. |
| August 15, 1893 | Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton. |
| August 27, 1893 | The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000 and 2,000 people. |
| September 16, 1893 | Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma. |
| September 19, 1893 | 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. |
| September 28, 1893 | Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto. |
| October 28, 1893 | Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death. |
| November 1, 1893 | The Battle of Bembezi took place and was the most decisive battle won by the British in the First Matabele War of 1893. |
| November 7, 1893 | Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so. |
| November 12, 1893 | Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the British Raj. |
| November 28, 1893 | Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election. |
| December 4, 1893 | First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors on the Shangani River in Matabeleland. |
| December 15, 1893 | Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World" a.k.a. the "New World Symphony") by Antonín Dvořák premieres in a public afternoon rehearsal at Carnegie Hall in New York City, followed by a concert premiere on the evening of December 16. |
| December 23, 1893 | The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed. |