1893

Events from the year 1893 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Benjamin Harrison (R-IN) (until March 4), Grover Cleveland (D-NY) (starting March 4)
* Vice President: Levi P. Morton (R-NY) (until March 4), Adlai E. Stevenson I (D-IL) (starting March 4)
* Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (IL)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Charles Frederick Crisp (D-GA)
* Congress: 52nd (until March 4), 53rd (starting March 4)
==Events==
===January - March===
* January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
* January 17 – The U.S. Marines intervene in Hawaii, resulting in overthrow of the government of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii.
* January 21 – The Cherry Sisters first perform in Marion, Iowa.
* February 1 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
* February 24 – American University is established by an Act of Congress in Washington, D.C.
* February 28 – USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of this time, is launched at Philadelphia; she is commissioned in 1895.
* March 4 – Grover Cleveland is sworn in as the 24th President of the United States, and Adlai E. Stevenson is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
===April - June===
* April 1 – The rank of Chief Petty Officer is established in the U.S. Navy.
* April 8 – The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania between the Geneva College Covenanters and the New Brighton YMCA.
* May 1 – The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, Illinois. The first U.S. commemorative postage stamps and Coins are issued for the Exposition.
* May 5 – Panic of 1893: A crash on the New York Stock Exchange starts a depression.
* May 9 – Edison's 1½ inch system of Kinetoscope is first demonstrated in public at the Brooklyn Institute.
* June 9 – The front part of Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. collapses, killing 22 War Department clerks and injuring 68 others.
* June 20 – Lizzie Borden is found not guilty for the murder of her father and step-mother in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
===July - September===
* July 1 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland has a secret operation to remove cancer in his mouth.
* July 6 – The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa is nearly destroyed by a tornado; 71 people are killed and 200 injured.
* July 12 – Frederick Jackson Turner gives a lecture titled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" before the American Historical Association in Chicago.
* July 22 – Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful", after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak, near Colorado Springs.
* August 27 – The Sea Islands Hurricane hits Savannah, Charleston, and the Sea Islands, killing 1,000–2,000.
* September 9 – First Lady Frances Cleveland gives birth in the White House to daughter Esther Cleveland.
* September 11
** The World Parliament of Religions opens in Chicago.
** Standing ovation to Hindu monk Swami Vivekanda for his address in Response to the welcome at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
* September 19 – Swami Vivekananda delivers an inspiring speech on his paper at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
* September 21 – Brothers Charles and Frank Duryea drive the first gasoline-powered motorcar in America on public roads in Springfield, Massachusetts.
* September 23 – The Baháʼí Faith is first publicly mentioned in the United States at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
===October - December===
* October 7 – Finley Peter Dunne introduces his character Mr. Dooley in the Chicago Evening Post.
* October 11 – Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire is officially dedicated.
* November 7 – Colorado women are granted the right to vote.
* December 20 – Evergreen Park, Illinois, is incorporated.
==Memoriam==
* January 11 – Benjamin Butler, major general of the Union Army during the American Civil War, and for his leader in the impeachment of Andrew Johnson (aged 74; Washington, DC, USA)
* January 17 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the U.S. from 1877 to 1881 (aged 70; Fremont, OH, USA)
* January 23 – Phillips Brooks, Episcopal clergyman (aged 57; Boston, MA, USA)
* January 27 – James G. Blaine, U.S. Senator from Maine from 1876 to 1881 and Secretary of State in 1881 and from 1889 to 1892 (aged 62; Washington, DC, USA)
* February 1 – Joseph P. Comegys, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1856 to 1857 (aged 79; Dover, DE, USA)
* February 10 – Henry Churchill de Mille, American dramatist and playwright (aged 39; Pompton Township, NJ, USA)
* February 19 – George E. Spencer, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1868 to 1879 (aged 56; Washington, DC, USA)
* February 20 – P. G. T. Beauregard, Southern military officer, politician, inventor, writer, civil servant, and the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War (aged 74; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* March 2 – Richard M. Bishop, 34th Governor of Ohio from 1878 to 1880 (aged 80; Jacksonville, FL, USA)
* March 18 – David H. Armstrong, Canadian-born U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1877 to 1879 (aged 80; St. Louis, MO, USA)
* March 22 – Eli M. Saulsbury, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1871 to 1889 (aged 75; Dover, DE, USA)
* March 28 – Edmund Kirby Smith, career United States Army officer who served with the Confederates during the American Civil War (aged 68; Sewanee, TN, USA)
* April 4 – David Meriwether, U.S. Senator from Kentucky in 1852 (aged 92; Louisville, KY, USA)
* June 7 – Edwin Booth, actor (aged 59; New York City, NY, USA)
* June 21 – Leland Stanford, U.S. Senator from California from 1885 to 1893 (aged 69; Palo Alto, CA, USA)
* July 2 – Georgiana Drew, comic actress (aged 36; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
* July 17 – Frederick A. Johnson, politician and banker (aged 60; Glen Falls, NY, USA)
* July 19 – Charles Colcock Jones Jr., Georgia politician, attorney, historian and folklorist (aged 61; Summerville, GA, USA)
* August 10 – Robert Cornelius, pioneer of photography (aged 84; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* August 20 – Brother Azarias, educator (aged 52; Plattsburgh, NY, USA)
* September 7 – Hamilton Fish, 26th U.S. Secretary of States from 1869 to 1877 (aged 85; Garrison, NY, USA)
* September 29 – Willis Benson Machen, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1872 to 1873 (aged 83; Hopkinsville, KY, USA)
* October 18 – Lucy Stone, social reformer (aged 75; Boston, MA, USA)
* November 11 – Charles H. Bell, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire in 1879 (aged 69; Exeter, NH, USA)
* November 22 – James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University (aged 67; Harrisburg, PA, USA)
* December 2 – Pauline Cushman, actress and Union spy (aged 60; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* December 7 – David Jewett Waller Sr., Presbyterian minister and businessman (aged 78; Bloomsburg, PA, USA)
* December 16 – James Black, temperance movement leader (aged 70; Lancaster, PA, USA)
==External links==
* 1893 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 12