1893

Events

1893 World's Fair, also known as the World Columbian Exposition
January 1 - Japan accepts the Gregorian calendar
January 13 - The Independent Labor Party of the UK has its first meeting.
January 17 - American sugar planters overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii
February 1 - Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio (West Orange, New Jersey).
February - Thomas Edison builds a film studio ("Black Maria"), where the earliest Edison motion pictures were filmed.
February 21 - Thomas Edison received two U.S. patents. The first was 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
May 9 - First public demonstration of Edison's 1 1/2" system of Kinetoscope at the Brooklyn Institute.
July 11 - Kokichi Mikimoto develops the method to achieve cultured pearls.

Change of US presidency from Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) to Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)
First United States commemorative postage stamps issued for the Columbian Exposition
The first World Parliament of Religions is held in Chicago
Global financial panic (Panic of 1893)
Physicist Wilhelm Wien composes Wien's Law

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