Significant Events
- Jul 9 Daniel Hale Williams III 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
World Leaders in 1893
Grover Cleveland
US President
Wilhelm II
German Emperor and King of Prussia
William Gladstone
British Prime Minister
Famous People in 1893
Claude Monet
Impressionist Painter
Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer
Dorothy Parker
Hermann Goering
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Mae West
Mao Zedong
Raymond DartWould You Believe?
1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ
On February 2, 1893
Famous Weddings
- Jan 18 British Poet and writer Rudyard Kipling (26) marries Carrie Balestier (29) in London
- 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)
- Oct 12 Education pioneer Booker T. Washington (37) weds Margaret James Murray
Edwin Booth
John Abbott
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Rutherford B. Hayes