1893 Events

1893
to 1903
Blind Tom Wiggins stops touring and joins vaudeville circuit
After being dogged by incessant legal challenges to her custodianship of Tom, Eliza Stutzbach took Blind Tom Wiggins off the concert circuit around 1893.
1893 Fracis J. Woolley House Completed; A "Bootleg House"
The Francis J. Woolley House is located in Oak Park, Illinois, United States, a Chicago suburb. The house was designed by famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1893. The Queen A...
1893 Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse power the World's Columbian Exposition
The International Exposition was held in a building which was devoted to electrical exhibits. General Electric Company (backed by Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan) had proposed to power the ...
1893 The First Ferris Wheel
The Ferris wheel is named after George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and he was a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania bridge-builder. He began his ca...
1893 Walter Gale House Completed; A "Bootleg House"
The Walter H. Gale House, located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and constructed in 1893. The house was commissioned by Walter H. Gale of ...
1893 William H. Winslow House Constructed
The Winslow House is a building in River Forest, Illinois designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Built on a private street on the Edward Waller estate, the Winslow House was Wright's f...
1893 Jan 2 Douglass Delivers Speech at the World's Fair
"We should not forget that the freedom you and I enjoy to-day… is largely due to the brave stand taken by the black sons, of Haiti ninety years ago…striking for their freedom, they struck ..." —Frederick Douglass, "Lecture on Haiti" address delivered at the dedication of the Haitian Pavilion at the World's Fair
1893 Jan 17 Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii
Until the 1890s the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi was an independent sovereign state, recognized by the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, and Germany. Though there were threats to Ha...
1893 Mar 4 Grover Cleveland is inaugurated, for the second time, as the 24th president of the United States
A light snowfall the night before the inauguration discouraged many spectators from attending President Cleveland's second inauguration. The Democrat had decisively defeated President Har...
1893 Mar 17 Montreal Hockey Club wins First Stanley Cup
The Montreal AAA were awarded the first Stanley Cup even thought the Montreal Hockey Club, which had recently become affiliated with the AAA, formed the basis of the team. The MHC, in fac...
1893 Apr Mohandes Gandhi Travels to South Africa to Work Under a Year-Long Contract with Dada Abdulla & Co., an Indian Firm
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a young man of 24 when he arrived in South Africa in 1893. Gandhi's work in South Africa dramatically changed him, as he faced the discrimination commonl...
1893 Apr 19 'A Woman of No Importance' Premieres in London
This play is considered to be Wilde's least successful drama, largely because it is not successfully epigrammatic in its structure and themes. Although Wilde sets his play in an interesti...
1893 May Mahatma Gandhi is Ejected from a South African Train, Motivating Him to Fight for Indian Rights in the British Colony
Pietermaritzburg is also famous for an incident early in the life of Mahatma Gandhi. In May 1893, while Gandhi was on his way to Pretoria, a white man objected to Gandhi's presence in a f...
1893 May 1
to 1893 Oct 31
 World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition (also called The Chicago World's Fair), a World's Fair, was held in Chicago in 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival ...
1893 Jun Jackhammer exhibited at World's Columbian Exposition
Charles King, inventor of the jackhammer, exhibits a pneumatic hammer for riveting and caulking at World's Columbian Exposition.
1893 Jun 22 Sinking of HMS Victoria
The disaster occurred in clear sunny weather on June 22, 1893, during fleet maneuvers off the coast of Syria. The officer in command, Vice Admiral Sir George Tryon, was a fearsome martine...
1893 Aug 15
to 1893 Sep 2
 Sea Island Hurricane of 1893
On August 27, 1893 a major hurricane which came to be known as the Sea Islands Hurricane struck the United States near Savannah, Georgia. It was one of two deadly hurricanes during the 18...
1893 Sep Winston Churchill Attends Royal Military College at Sandhurst
Never a strong scholar, the boy Winston rebelled against learning and refused to study what did not interest him. He was, Peter de Mendelsson (The Age of Churchill) reveals, at the bottom...
1893 Sep 27
to 1893 Oct 5
 Cheniere Caminada Hurricane of 1893
Originating near the Yucatan Peninsula, a compact and fast-moving hurricane rode a low pressure trough across the river and bayou plains of extreme Southeastern Louisiana at such an angle...
1893 Nov 3 Explosion of the Steamship Cabo Machichaco
As we bave been informed by cable, a disaster unparalleled in modern times occurred at Santander (Old Castilo) on the afternoon of 3rd November. A Spanish steamer, the Cabo Machichaco, ca...