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| 1893 |
| | | De Lesseps, on trial for his management of the Panama Canal company, is sentenced to five years in prison | |
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| 1893 |
| | | In Falstaff Giuseppe Verdi writes his last opera, and his only comedy since the early days of his career. | |
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| 1893 |
| | | France claims the Ivory Coast (or Côte d'Ivoire) in west Africa as a French colony | |
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| 1893 |
| | | The Independent Labour Party, later changing its name to the Labour Party, is founded in Britain by the trade unionist Keir Hardie | |
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| 1893 |
| | | US author Stephen Crane cannot find a publisher for his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, so issues it privately | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Leander Jameson, finding a pretext for war, drives Lobengula out of his kingdom in Rhodesia | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Gladstone finally gets a Home Rule bill through the Commons, only to have it rejected in the Lords | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Frank Hornby patents in Liverpool his Meccano construction system for children | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Decline in the federal gold reserve and panic by investors prompts a spectacular crash in the US economy | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi, travelling with a first-class ticket, is forcibly ejected from the carriage at Pietermaritzburg because of his colour | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen sails into the Arctic in the purpose-built Fram, beginning a three-year expedition to reach the North Pole | |
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| 1893 |
| | | The British Central African Protectorate is set up in the region of present-day Malawi | |
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| 1893 |
| | | George Westinghouse demonstrates the advantages of AC (Alternating Current) when he provides 100,000 lights for the Chicago World's Fair | |
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| 1893 |
| | | The Gaelic League is founded to restore the use of Gaelic as Ireland's spoken language | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Anton Dvorák's Ninth Symphony, subtitled 'From the New World', has its first performance in New York | |
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| 1893 |
| | | The Scottish game of shinty is provided with a standardized set of rules | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Tchaikovsky's symphony no. 6, known as the 'Pathetic' or Pathétique, has its premiere in St Petersburg | |
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| 1893 |
| | | France incorporates Laos within French Indochina | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky dies after a short illness, possibly from cholera or perhaps in sinister circumstances that remain the subject of controversy | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Hansel and Gretl, an opera by German composer Engelbert Humperdinck, has its premiere in Weimar | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Gladstone retires as Britain's prime minister and his place is taken by his foreign secretary, Lord Rosebery | |
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| 1894 |
| | | France and Russia, alarmed by Germany's ambitions, sign a defensive Franco-Russian alliance | |
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| 1894 |
| | | French-born artist and author George du Maurier publishes his novel Trilby | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book surrounds the child Mowgli with a collection of vivid animal guardians | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Wealthy US astronomer Percival Lowell builds an observatory at Mars Hill in Flagstaff, Arizona | |
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| 1894 |
| | | US Socialist Eugene Debs comes to prominence as leader of a strike by railway workers against the Pullman Company | |
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| 1894 |
| | | London's Tower Bridge raises its roadway for the first time to let a ship pass up the Thames | |
|  | Tower Bridge, by C.F. Kell, c.1894
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| 1894 |
| | | The Basque Nationalist Party is founded, beginning more than a century of separatist unrest in northwest Spain | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Scottish physicist William Ramsay isolates argon, following Rayleigh's discovery that an undiscovered gas combines with nitrogen in the air | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Japan and China go to war over Korea, with disastrous results for China | |
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| 1894 |
| | | William Randolph Hearst buys the New York Journal, the first of numerous purchases in building up his press empire | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Brazil's first civilian president, Prudente de Morais, is peacefully elected, setting the pattern for the next four decades | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, is convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island in French Guiana | |
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