Important Historical Events of the year 1893, Year 1893 in History

List of 1893 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1893

What happened in the year 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.