- February 9
- Canal builder De Lesseps and others sentenced to prison for fraud. [1]
- February 28
- Edward Acheson of Pennsylvania, USA, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum". [1]
- March 4
- Francis Dhanis' army attacks the Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe. [1]
- March 9
- Congo cannibals kill thousands of arabs. [1]
- March 10
- Ivory Coast becomes a French colony. [1]
- March 30
- Thomas F Bayard becomes first US ambassador in Great Britain. [1]
- April 12
- Battle at Hoornkrans Southwest-Africa: German Schutztruppen chases away Hottentotten under Hendrik Witbooi. [1]
- April 22
- Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo. [1]
- Paul Kruger elected President of Transvaal for third time. [1]
- May 1
- World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago, Illinois, USA. [117.19] [447.18] [676.47] [980.848]
- May 5
- Panic of 1893: Great crash on New York Stock Exchange. [1]
- May 10
- Imperial Institute in London opens. [1]
- May 19
- Heavy rain washes "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway). [1]
- May 27
- Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland. [1]
- June 21
- First Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition). [1]
- June 22
- A few miles off the Syrian port of Tripoli, English battleships HMS Victoria and Camperdown collide almost head-on. Victoria sinks in 13 minutes, taking 22 officers and 363 men. [696.46]
- June 30
- Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) is discovered. [1]
- July 9
- Daniel H Williams performs "world's first successful heart operation". [1]
- July 11
- The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto. [5]
- July 15
- US Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Japan. [1]
- August 10
- Rudolf Diesel's prime model engine first runs on its own power. [5]
- August 14
- Paris Police Ordinance (France) issues first driving licenses, includes required test. [1] [5] [55.51]
- August 15
- As of this date, the US is no longer allowed exclusive rights in the Bering Sea. [1]
- September 19
- The Electoral Act gives all women in New Zealand the right to vote. [5]
- September 21
- Frank Duryea drives first US-made gas-propelled vehicle (car). [1]
- October 1
- Third worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi). [1]
- October 9
- "Chicago Day" at the World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Attendance is 751,026, largest single-day attendance for any peace-time event in history. [117.20]
- October 30
- The World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, USA closes. A total of 27 million people visited over four months. [447.18] [980.848] (October 31 [117.20])
- November 22
- In Zabrodii, Russia, a building is struck by a meteorite. [521]
- November 28
- Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election. [5]
- December 3
- Ndebeles destroy Rhodesia. [1]
- December 5
- First electric car (built in Toronto, Ontario, Canada); could go 15 miles between charges. [1]
- December 11
- Eleven fishing ships wash up from the Wadden Sea off Germany, 22 killed. [1]
- December 17
- Russia ratifies Duple Alliance with France. [1]
- December 28
- French lieutenant Boiteux annexes Tumbuktu. [1]
- December 30
- Russia signs military accord with France. [1]
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- January 1
- Denmark adopts Mid-European time. [1]
- Manchester Ship Canal in England opens to traffic. [1]
- January 4
- France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia. [1]
- January 8
- Columbus World's Fair in Chicago destroyed by fire. [1]
- January 13
- Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops. [1]
- January 30
- Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit, Michigan, USA. [1]
- US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by US Admiral Benham. [1]
- February 2
- US warship Kearsarge is wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island. [1]
- February 5
- Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam, Holland forms. [1]
- February 13
- Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector. [5]
- February 16
- British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast. [1]
- February 24
- Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of). [1]
- March 3
- Fourth and last British government of William Gladstone resigns. [1]
- March 4
- Great fire in Shanghai, China; over 1,000 buildings destroyed. [1]
- March 12
- In Vicksburg, Mississippi, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time. [5]
- March 17
- US and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US. [1]
- March 24
- 37 miners are killed at Franklin, Washington, USA. [1]
- April 5
- Eleven strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA. [1]
- April 12
- British and Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa. [1]
- April 14
- First public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures). [1]
- May 16
- Fire in Boston, Massachusetts, USA destroys baseball stadium and spreads to 170 other buildings. [1]
- May 26
- Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player. [1]
- May 28
- Belgian Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern. [1]
- June 17
- First US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, in Rutland, Vermont. [1]
- June 30
- The Prince of Wales officially opens the Tower Bridge in London, England. [511.50]
- Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid. [1]
- July 4
- Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of first US autos at 6 MPH. [1]
- Republic of Hawaii is established. [1]
- July 16
- Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley is signed between Japan and England. [1]
- September 15
- Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang. [1]
- October 17
- Ohio national guard kills three lynchers while rescuing a black man. [1]
- October 29
- First election of the Hawaiian Republic. [1]
- October 30
- Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially. [5]
- November 1
- Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris, France. [1]
- November 16
- 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan. [1]
- November 18
- First newspaper Sunday color comic section published (New York World). [1]
- November 20
- US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua. [1]
- December 9
- Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium. [1]
- December 22
- Dutch coast hit by hurricane. [1]
- French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated). [1]
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