Major Events
- May 5 Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the NY Stock Exchange
- Jul 9 Daniel Hale Williams repairs the torn pericardium of a knife wound patient, James Cornish, without penicillin or blood transfusion
- Sep 19 New Zealand becomes the first country to grant all women the right to vote
- Nov 28 Women vote in a national election for the first time, in the New Zealand general election
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1893 in Film & TV
- Feb 1 Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio at West Orange, New Jersey
1893 in Music
- Dec 16 Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 - "New World Symphony" premieres at Carnegie Hall, New York
- Dec 23 Opera "Hansel and Gretel" by Engelbert Humperdinck and his sister Adelheid Wette premieres in Weimar, conducted by Richard Strauss
1893 in Sport
- May 11 Henri Desgrange establishes world's 1st bicycle world record, travelling 35.325 km (21.95 miles) an hour
Hermann Goering
Omar Bradley
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Huey Long
Mao Zedong
Jimmy Durante
Mae West
Merian C. Cooper
Bill Tilden
Clas Thunberg
Piet MoeskopsMore People Born in 1893
Fun Fact About 1893
Cowboy Bill Pickett invents bulldogging, the skill of grabbing cattle by the horns and wrestling them to the ground
Benjamin Butler
Rutherford B. Hayes
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Leland Stanford
Guy de Maupassant
John Abbott
Charles Gounod
Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyMore 1893 Deaths
Articles About 1893
Panic of 1893
The panicked scene at the New York Stock Exchange on the infamous morning of Friday, 5 May, 1893May 5
The First Country to Grant Women the Vote
In the late 19th century the women's suffrage movement was widespread in Europe, America, Britain and its colonies. But who was first to grant women the vote?September 19
Famous Weddings in 1893
- Jan 18 British poet and writer Rudyard Kipling (26) weds Carrie Balestier (29) at All Souls Church in Langham Place, London, England; writer. Henry James gave away the bride
- Jul 6 British Prince George Duke of York (later George V) marries Princess Victoria of Teck (Queen Mary) at St James's Palace
- Sep 13 Microbiologist Robert Koch (49) weds actress Hedwig Freiberg (20)
More Weddings in 1893
Claude Monet
Giuseppe Verdi
Grover Cleveland
Wilhelm II
William Gladstone