In the year
AD 1893...
- The Panic of 1893, America's worst economic downturn ever up until this point, leads to the failure of approximately 15,000 companies and 500 banks, and the unemployment of 20% of the nation.
- A group of American businessmen and sugar planters, with the acquiesence of US Marines, overthrow the Hawaiian Monarchy, forcing Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate and briefly establishing the "Republic of Hawaii" before requesting and receiving status as a US protectorate a few months later.
- The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World, is one of the most spectacular World's Fairs ever. Among many other wonders, the fair is remembered for these events...
- In the Oklahoma Land Rush, 100,000 "Sooners" race by horse, carriage, and foot to claim land in the Cherokee Strip, starting from its borders at noon on September 16.
- Charismatic Brazilian religious leader Antonio Conselheiro and about 25,000 peasant followers establish the settlement of Canudos in the Certao region of Bahia in Brazil. The settlement's stance in favor of the deposed Brazilian monarchy gave it the character of a rebellion, and it would eventually be wiped out by a government army in 1897.
- In the original "Trial of the Century," accused axe-murderess Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the double murder of her father and stepmother.
- New Zealand becomes the first nation to grant women the right to vote in national elections.
- German engineer Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel engine.
- Czech composer Antonín Dvorák's New World Symphony debuts.
- Edvard Munch paints The Scream.
- Kentucky schoolteachers Patty and Mildred Hill compose the song "Good Morning to All" as a classroom greeting song. The song would later be copyrighted in 1935 as "Happy Birthday to You" and is now owned by Time-Warner and worth millions of dollars annually.
- The Stanley Cup is presented for the first time, to the Montreal AAA, champions of Canada's Amateur Hockey Association.
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1892 - 1893 - 1894
19th century