What Happened in 1893

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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,... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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,... Read more

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... Read more

'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.... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more