The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.

In 1893 farmers from the town of Perth, Ontario produced The Mammoth Cheese, at a weight of 22, 000 lb ( 10, 000 kg ) for that year's Chicago World's Fair.

This was achieved at an international conference in Chicago 1893.

At the Chicago 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Muybridge gave a series of lectures on the Science of Animal Locomotion in the Zoopraxographical Hall, built specially for that purpose in the " Midway Plaisance " arm of the exposition.

In 1893 at the Chicago World's Fair, Thomas Edison introduced to the public two pioneering inventions based on this innovation ; the Kinetograph – the first practical moving picture camera – and the Kinetoscope.

* Frederick Douglass lecture on Haiti – Given at the World's Fair in Chicago, January 1893.

Mary Cassatt, The Child's Bath ( The Bath ), 1893, oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago

In 1893, a French physician, Jacques Bertillon, introduced the Bertillon Classification of Causes of Death at a congress of the International Statistical Institute in Chicago.

After his graduation, he opened an office in Chicago, but left it when Walter Q. Gresham, the new United States Secretary of State, named him his personal secretary in 1893.

The first major dialogue was the Parliament of the World's Religions at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, which remains notable even today both in affirming " universal values " and recognition of the diversity of practices among different cultures.

Congress of Parliament of the World's Religions, Chicago, 1893

* May 1 – The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA.

* July – A fire at the site of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago destroys most of the remaining buildings.

By 1889 the first 6 electric charter boats were working on the Thames and in the 1893 Chicago World Fair 55 carried more than a million passengers.

Nikola Tesla's Alternating current polyphase system | polyphase generators on display at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition | World's Fair in Chicago.

Carter Henry Harrison, Sr. ( February 15, 1825October 28, 1893 ) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1879 until 1887 ; he was subsequently elected to a fifth term in 1893 but was assassinated before completing his term.

After leaving office, Harrison was owner and editor of the Chicago Times from 1891 to 1893.

In 1893, Michael Ahern, the Chicago Republican reporter who wrote the O ' Leary account, admitted he had made it up as colorful copy.

Open wires, on the other hand, with their lower capacitance had been used for enormous distances-the longest was the 1500 km from New York to Chicago built in 1893.

The Statue of the Republic overlooks the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

The World's Columbian Exposition ( the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as The Chicago World's Fair ) was a World's Fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.

On October 9, 1893, the day designated as Chicago Day, the fair set a record for outdoor event attendance, drawing 716, 881 persons to the fair.

Two of the city's largest parks are also located on this side of the city: Jackson Park, bordering the waterfront, hosted the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and is home of the aforementioned museum ; and slightly west sits Washington Park.

The city of Dothan has hosted a number of railroads throughout its existence, beginning with the Alabama Midland Railroad in 1893.

The dominant social class of the Northeast possessed the confidence to proclaim an " American Renaissance ", which could be identified in the rush of new public institutions that marked the period — hospitals, museums, colleges, opera houses, libraries, orchestras — and by the Beaux-Arts architectural idiom in which they splendidly stood forth, after Chicago hosted the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.

In 1893, Hyde Park hosted the World's Columbian Exposition.

In 1893, the residents of Ashland built a facility that hosted its first performance on 5 July.

The Chicago dioramas feature Chicago's rise from a desolate frontier outpost to the bustling city that hosted the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.

In 1893, the city of Chicago hosted the World Columbian Exposition, an early world ’ s fair.

Newport Country Club, founded in 1893, is a historic private golf club in Newport, Rhode Island in the United States that hosted both the first U. S. Amateur Championship and the first U. S. Open in 1895.

Her first and longer visit was when she came at the importunities of the psychologist, Dr. Julian Ochorowicz, who hosted her from November 1893 to January 1894.

The city played host to the first two Parliament of the World's Religions in 1893 and 1993.

A replica of the Gokstad ship, named Viking was sailed across the Atlantic to the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893

The Parliament of the World's Religions in 1893 marked the first formal gathering of representatives of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions.

* October 30 – The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, closes.

He was re-elected in 1893, in time for the World's Columbian Exposition.

The star was chosen as its light had started its journey at about the time of the previous Chicago world's fair — the World's Columbian Exposition — in 1893.

Parliament of the World's Religions opened on 11 September 1893 at the Art Institute of Chicago as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

The first electrical stove had been presented in 1893 at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, but it was not until the 1930s that the technology was stable enough and began to take off.

" Viking " replica of the Gokstad Viking ship at the World's Columbian Exposition | 1893 Chicago World's Fair

As with the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, all but one of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition's grand, neo-Classical exhibition palaces were temporary structures, designed to last but a year or two.

It is housed in the former Palace of Fine Arts from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

The Palace of Fine Arts ( also known as the Fine Arts Building ) at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition was designed by Charles B. Atwood for D. H. Burnham & Co.

In Chicago his projects include: Marquette Park ; Jackson Park ; Washington Park ; the Midway Plaisance for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition ; the south portion of Chicago's " emerald necklace " boulevard ring ; Cadwalader Park in Trenton, New Jersey ; and the University of Chicago campus.

In Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, Olmsted is featured as one of the most important figures participating in the design of the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition.

In his first year he visited the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and appreciated the work of Louis Sullivan.

The first postcard to be printed as a souvenir in the United States was created in 1893 to advertise the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Postcards, in the form of government postal cards and privately printed souvenir cards, became very popular as a result of the Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, after postcards featuring buildings were distributed at the fair.

At the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Muybridge presented a series of lectures on the " Science of Animal Locomotion " in the Zoopraxographical Hall, built specially for that purpose in the " Midway Plaisance " arm of the exposition.