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'''1893''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCCXCIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Sunday]] (see link for calendar).

==Events==
===January-June===
* [[January 1]] - [[Japan]] accepts the [[Gregorian calendar]]
* [[January 2]] - Introduction by [[Webb C. Ball]] of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: [[Railroad chronometers]]
* [[January 13]] - The [[Independent Labour Party]] of the [[United Kingdom|UK]] has its first meeting.
* [[January 17]] - [[Invasion|Intervention]] by the [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marines]] in Hawaii, resulting in overthrow of government of Queen [[Liliuokalani of Hawaii]]
* [[January 21]] - First "performance" of the [[Cherry sisters]] in [[Marion, Iowa]]. Their neighbors are uncritical and the sisters decide to launch a tour
* [[February 1]] - [[Thomas A. Edison]] finishes construction of the first [[film|motion picture]] studio ([[West Orange, New Jersey]]).
* [[February 21]] - [[Thomas Edison]] receives two U.S. [[patent]]s. The first is 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 4]] - End of term for [[President of the United States]] [[Benjamin Harrison]]. He is succeeded by [[Grover Cleveland|Stephen Grover Cleveland]].
* [[March 10]] - [[Côte d'Ivoire]] becomes a [[France|French]] colony
* [[March 20]] - In Belgium, [[Adam Worth]] is sentenced for seven year for robbery (he is released [[1897]])
* [[April 8]] - First recorded [[college basketball]] game occurs in [[Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania]] between the [[Geneva College]] Covenanters and the [[New Brighton, Pennsylvania|New Brighton]] [[YMCA]].
*[[May 1]] - The [[World's Columbian Exposition|1893 World's Fair]], also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in [[Chicago, Illinois]], [[United States|USA]]. The first United States commemorative [[postage stamp]]s were issued for the Exposition.
*[[May 5]] - [[Panic of 1893]]: Crash on the [[New York Stock Exchange]] starts a [[depression (economics)|depression]].
* [[May 9]] - First public demonstration of Edison's 1½ inch system of [[Kinetoscope]] at the [[Brooklyn Institute]].
* [[May 10]] - The [[United States Supreme Court]] legally declares the [[tomato]] to be a [[vegetable]].
* [[May 24]] - The [[Niagara Falls Park and River Railway]] opens.
*[[June 6]] - Marriage of [[George V of the United Kingdom | Prince George]], [[Duke of York]] and [[Mary of Teck]].
* [[June 7]] [[Gandhi]]'s first act of civil disobedience.
* [[June 17]] [[Gold]] found in [[Kalgoorlie]] [[Western Australia]]
* [[June 22]] - [[Flagship]] ''Victoria'' of the [[British Mediterranean Fleet]] collides with ''Camperdown'' and sinks in 10 minutes - vice-admiral Sir [[George Tryon]] goes down with it

===July-December===
* [[July 6]] - The small town of [[Pomeroy, Iowa]] was nearly destroyed by a tornado. Seventy-one people were killed and two hundred were injured.
* [[July 11]] - [[Kokichi Mikimoto]] develops the method to achieve cultured [[pearl]]s.
* [[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, Illinois|Chicago]]. July 12 also witnesses the formation of [[Dundee FC]]- the great Scottish football club.
* [[August 27]] - The [[Sea Islands Hurricane]] hits [[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]], [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]] and the [[Sea Islands]]; 1000-2000 dead.
*[[September 11]] - Opening meeting of the [[World Parliament of Religions]] in Chicago.
* [[September 19]] - Russian [[ironclad]] ''[[Rusalka (ship)|Rusalka]]'' disappears in a storm en route from [[Tallinn]] to [[Helsinki]] (''hulk found July 2003 off Helsinki'')
*[[September 23]] - First public mention of the [[Bahá'í Faith]] in the [[United States]] at the [[World Parliament of Religions]] in Chicago.
*[[September 27]] - Closing meeting of the [[World Parliament of Religions]] in Chicago.
* [[October 10]] - First car number plates in [[Paris]], [[France]]
*[[October 30]] - The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the [[World's Columbian Exposition]], closes.
* [[November 7]] - [[Colorado]] women are granted the right to vote.

===Exact month/day of event unknown===
* [[New Zealand]] becomes first country in the world to grant women the vote.
* [[American Council on Alcohol Problems]] established.
* Global financial panic ([[Panic of 1893]])
* [[Physics|Physicist]] [[Wilhelm Wien]] formulates[[Wien's displacement law]]
* [[France]] conquers [[Vietnam]].
* [[General strike]] in [[Belgium]]
* [[American Temperance University]] opened.
* [[Milbank Penitentiary]] in Britain demolished
* US President Cleveland operated on in secret
* The [[Wengernalpbahn]] in [[Wengen, Switzerland]] ([[Canton of Bern]]) is opened.
* Athletic Club Královské Vinohrady is founded. Later the team was renamed to [[Sparta Prague]]
* [[Anti-Saloon League]] established in U.S. to promote [[temperance movement]]
* [[Committee of Fifty for the Study of the Liquor Problem]] established.
*[[Adalbert Goeringer]] invented a compass to measure the [[Golden Section]].
* [[T.M.I.: The Episcopal School of Texas]] founded.
*[[Colored High]] becomes the first [[African American]] high school in [[Houston, TX]], it's name is later changed to [[Booker T. Washington High School (Houston)|Booker T. Washington High School]]

==Births==
===January===
*[[January 5]] - [[Paramahansa Yogananda]], Indian guru (d. [[1952]])
*[[January 12]] - [[Hermann Göring]], Nazi official (d. [[1946]])
*[[January 12]] - [[Alfred Rosenberg]], Nazi official (d. [[1946]])
*[[January 15]] - [[Ivor Novello]], Welsh actor and musician (d. [[1951]])
*[[January 22]] - [[Conrad Veidt]], German actor (d. [[1943]])
*[[January 27]] - [[Soong Ching-ling]](宋慶齡), one of the [[Soong sisters]], wife of [[Sun Yat-sen]](孫逸仙, 孫文) (d. [[1981]])
===February===
*[[February 3]] - [[Gaston Julia]], French mathematician (d. [[1978]])
*[[February 10]] - [[Jimmy Durante]], American actor, singer, and comedian (d. [[1980]])
*[[February 12]] - [[Omar Bradley]], American general (d. [[1981]])
*[[February 16]] - [[Katharine Cornell]], American actress (d. [[1974]])
*[[February 21]] - [[Andrés Segovia]], Spanish guitarist (d. [[1987]])

===March===
*[[March 1]] - [[Mercedes de Acosta]], American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (d. [[1968]])
*[[March 3]] - [[Beatrice Wood]], American artist and ceramicist (d. [[1998]])
*[[March 18]] - [[Wilfred Owen]], English soldier and poet (d. [[1918]])
*[[March 26]] - [[Palmiro Togliatti]], Italian communist leader (d. [[1964]])

===April===
*[[April 3]] - [[Leslie Howard]], English actor (d. [[1943]])
*[[April 9]] - [[Victor Gollancz]], British publisher (d. [[1967]])
*[[April 12]] - [[Robert Harron]], American actor (d. [[1920]])
*[[April 23]] - [[Allen Dulles]], American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. [[1969]])
*[[April 29]] - [[Harold C. Urey]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1981]])
===May===
*[[May 3]] - [[Konstantine Gamsakhurdia]], Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. [[1975]])
*[[May 26]] - [[Norma Talmadge]], American actress (d. [[1957]])
*[[May 23]] - [[Ulysses S. Grant IV]], American geologist and paleontologist (d. [[1977]])
===June===
*[[June 14]] - [[Siggie Nordstrom]], model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer of The [[Nordstrom Sisters]] (d. [[1980]])
*[[June 24]] - [[Roy Oliver Disney]], brother and business partner of [[Walter Elias Disney]] (d. [[1971]])
*[[June 26]] - [[Big Bill Broonzy]], American blues singer and composer (d. [[1958]])

===July===
*[[July 3]] - [[Mississippi John Hurt]], American musician (d. [[1966]])
*[[July 9]] - [[George Geary]], English cricketer (d. [[1981]])
*[[July 25]] - [[Dorothy Dickson]], American-born actress and socialite (d. [[1995]])
*[[July 30]] - [[Madar-e-Millat, Miss Fatimah Jinnah]], is born on this day in Karachi, then under the Indian Empire of Britain, now Pakistan, she is one the four sisters and the youngest sibling of the Quaid as well a great conpanion to her beloved brother, she is considered as one of the profound founders during the Pakistan Movement (d. [[1967]])

===August===
*[[August 6]] - [[Wright Patman]], American politician (d. [[1976]])
*[[August 15]] - [[Leslie Comrie]], New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (d. [[1950]])
*[[August 22]] - [[Dorothy Parker]], American writer (d. [[1967]])
* August 22 - [[Wilfred Kitching]], the 7th General of [[The Salvation Army]] (d. [[1977]])
*[[August 25]] - [[Henry Trendley Dean]], American dental researcher (d. [[1962]])
*[[August 30]] - [[Huey Long]], [[Louisiana]] governor and senator (d. [[1935]])
===September===
*[[September 13]] - [[Larry Shields]], American musician (d. [[1953]])
*[[September 16]] - [[Albert Szent-Györgyi]], Hungarian physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1986]])
===October===
*[[October 1]] - [[Marianne Brandt]], German industrial designer (d. [[1983]])
*[[October 9]] - [[Mário de Andrade]], Brazilian writer and photographer (d. [[1945]])
*[[October 14]] - [[Lillian Gish]], American actress (d. [[1993]])
*[[October 15]] - King [[Carol II of Romania]] (d. [[1953]])
*[[October 18]] - [[Georges Ohsawa]], Japanese founder of Macrobiotics (d. [[1966]])
===November===
*[[November 3]] - [[Edward Adelbert Doisy]], American biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1986]])
*[[November 8]] - [[Clarence Williams]], American jazz musician (d. [[1965]])
* November 8 - [[Prajadhipok]], Rama VII, king of Thailand (d. [[1941]])
===December===
*[[December 24]] - [[Ruth Chatterton]], American actress (d. [[1961]])
*[[December 26]] - [[Mao Zedong]], Chinese leader (d. [[1976]])

==Exact month/day of birth unknown==
*[[Clement Martyn Doke]], South African linguist (d. [[1980]])
*[[Berthold Bartosch]], Bohemian animator (d. [[1968]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 2]] - [[John Obadiah Westwood]], British entomologist
*[[January 7]] - [[Joseph Stefan|Jožef Stefan]], Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet (b. [[1835]])
*[[January 17]] - [[Rutherford B. Hayes]], 19th [[President of the United States]]
*[[January 23]] - [[Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II)|Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar]], U.S. Supreme Court justice
*[[February 1]] - [[George Henry Sanderson]], Mayor of San Francisco
*[[February 20]] - [[P.G.T. Beauregard]], American Confederate general
*[[March 30]] - [[Jane Sym|Jane Sym-Mackenzie]], second wife of Canada's second prime minister
*[[June 21]] - [[Amasa Leland Stanford]], Governor of California
*[[June 23]] - Sir [[Theophilus Shepstone]], South African statesman (b. [[1817]])
*[[October 8]] - [[John Willis Menard]] African-American Politician (b. [[1838]])
*[[October 10]] - [[Lip Pike]], baseball player
*[[October 18]] - [[Charles Gounod]], French composer (b. [[1818]])
*[[October 30]] - [[Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott]], Canadian politician

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 Perhaps Vivekananda, attending the Congress of Religions, saw the paintings there. It is said that on his return to Bombay, Vivekananda was received by Ravi Varma.
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-Miss Tenant, an Anglican, publishes a circular on behalf of the 'Panjabi Purity Association', soliciting opinions on whether the practice of nautch was (not) spreading immorality among young men.
+Miss Tenant, an Anglicist, publishes a circular on behalf of the 'Panjabi Purity Association', soliciting opinions on whether the practice of nautch was (not) spreading immorality among young men.

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	Perhaps Vivekananda, attending the Congress of Religions, saw the paintings there. It is said that on his return to Bombay, Vivekananda was received by Ravi Varma.		Perhaps Vivekananda, attending the Congress of Religions, saw the paintings there. It is said that on his return to Bombay, Vivekananda was received by Ravi Varma.
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		+	Miss Tenant, an Anglican, publishes a circular on behalf of the 'Panjabi Purity Association', soliciting opinions on whether the practice of nautch was (not) spreading immorality among young men.

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−	I spent the entire morning looking at Ravi Varma's pictures. I must confess I find them really attractive. After all, these pictures prove to us how dear our own stories, our own images and expressions are to us. In some paintings, the figures are not quite in proportion. Never mind! The total effect is ~~complling~~.	+	I spent the entire morning looking at Ravi Varma's pictures. I must confess I find them really attractive. After all, these pictures prove to us how dear our own stories, our own images and expressions are to us. In some paintings, the figures are not quite in proportion. Never mind! The total effect is compelling.

−	Rabindrath Tagore, Chhinna Patrabali/	+	Rabindrath Tagore, Chhinna Patrabali

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		+	I spent the entire morning looking at Ravi Varma's pictures. I must confess I find them really attractive. After all, these pictures prove to us how dear our own stories, our own images and expressions are to us. In some paintings, the figures are not quite in proportion. Never mind! The total effect is complling.
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		+	Rabindrath Tagore, Chhinna Patrabali/
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	Phalke paints backdrops for plays.		Phalke paints backdrops for plays.

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	"Institutions and Organisations for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge".		"Institutions and Organisations for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge".
	The award was given in recognition of "the progress of instruction in Art."		The award was given in recognition of "the progress of instruction in Art."
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		+	Awards:
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		+	Citation one:
		+	This exhibit of ten paintings in oil colours, by Ravi Varma, court painter to several presidencies of India, is of much ethnological value, not only do the faces of the high-caste ladies which are portrayed give the various types of the localities, but the Artist's careful attention to the details of costume and articles used in the social and ceremonial life he has depicted, renders the paintings worthy of special commendation.
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		+	Citation two:
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		+	A series of well executed paintings give a good idea of the progress of instruction in Art. They are true to nature and in form and color and preserve the costumes, current fashion and social features.
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		+	Perhaps Vivekananda, attending the Congress of Religions, saw the paintings there. It is said that on his return to Bombay, Vivekananda was received by Ravi Varma.

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	At an international exhibition of art in Chicago, Ravi Varma exhibited ten paintings depicting different beauties of different Indian regions. All ten paintings were selected for the exhibition, and he got a diploma that recognised him as an artist and two medals too. The diploma certificate generously praised both, the classical and the narrative/autobiographical tendencies in these paintings.		At an international exhibition of art in Chicago, Ravi Varma exhibited ten paintings depicting different beauties of different Indian regions. All ten paintings were selected for the exhibition, and he got a diploma that recognised him as an artist and two medals too. The diploma certificate generously praised both, the classical and the narrative/autobiographical tendencies in these paintings.
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		+	However the paintings were exhibited in a special category called
		+	"Institutions and Organisations for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge".
		+	The award was given in recognition of "the progress of instruction in Art."

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-( in addition to the light coming in through the window, he was also getting quite intrigued by the thought of discovering what went on in that room".
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 At an international exhibition of art in Chicago, Ravi Varma exhibited ten paintings depicting different beauties of different Indian regions. All ten paintings were selected for the exhibition, and he got a diploma that recognised him as an artist and two medals too. The diploma certificate generously praised both, the classical and the narrative/autobiographical tendencies in these paintings.

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		+	At an international exhibition of art in Chicago, Ravi Varma exhibited ten paintings depicting different beauties of different Indian regions. All ten paintings were selected for the exhibition, and he got a diploma that recognised him as an artist and two medals too. The diploma certificate generously praised both, the classical and the narrative/autobiographical tendencies in these paintings.