1893

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s

Years: 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 - 1893 - 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898

• 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World Columbian Exposition
• January 1 - Japan accepts the Gregorian calendar
• January 13 - The Independent Labor Party[?] of the UK has its first meeting.
• January 17 - American sugar planters overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii
• February 1 - Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio (West Orange, New Jersey).
• February - Thomas Edison builds a film studio ("Black Maria"), where the earliest Edison motion pictures were filmed.
• February 21 - Thomas Edison received two U.S. patents. The first was for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps" and another for a "Stop Device" (No. 491,992-3). Also No. 492,150 for "Process of Coating Conductors for Incandescent Lamps."
• February 23 - Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine
• March 10 - Ivory Coast becomes a French colony
• May 9 - First public demonstration of Edison's 1 1/2" system of Kinetoscope at the Brooklyn Institute[?].
• July 11 - Kokichi Mikimoto develops the method to achieve cultured pearls.
• July 12 - Frederick Jackson Turner gives his famous lecture entitled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History[?]" before the American Historical Association[?] in Chicago

• Change of US presidency from Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) to Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)
• First United States commemorative postage stamps issued for the Columbian Exposition
• The first World Parliament of Religions is held in Chicago
• Global financial panic (Panic of 1893)
• Physicist Wilhelm Wien composes Wien's Law
• France conquers Vietnam.

Births

• January 5 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru
• January 12 - Hermann Göring, Nazi offical (+ 1946)
• January 12 - Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi official (+ 1946)
• January 15 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician (+ 1951)
• January 22 - Conrad Veidt[?], actor (+ 1943)
• February 10 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillean (+ 1980)
• February 11 - Johan Alberts[?] Dutch literary figure.
• February 12 - Omar Bradley, general (+ 1981)
• February 21 - Andrés Segovia, musician (+ 1987)
• March 3 - Beatrice Wood, artist/ceramist
• March 26 - James Bryan Conant[?], chemist and politician (+ 1978)
• April 3 - Leslie Howard, actor (+ 1943)
• April 7 - Allen Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (+ 1969)
• June 26 - Big Bill Broonzy
• July 3 - Mississippi John Hurt
• October 15 - King Carol II of Romania
• December 26 - Mao Zedong, Chinese leader

• Clement Martyn Doke (1893-1980) South African linguist
• Blind Blake - influential blues singer

Deaths

• January 7 - Jožef Stefan, Slovene physicist
• January 17 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States
• January 23 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, the only United States Supreme Court justice from Mississippi
• February 20 - P.G.T. Beauregard, Confederate general