Fridtjof Nansen won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86 ° 14 ′ during his Nansen's Fram expedition | North Pole expedition of 1893 – 96.

Joined Fridtjof Nansen across Greenland in 1888 and captain on the Fram on the polar drift in 1893 – 1896 and the 2nd Fram expedition in 1898 – 1902.

He shipped out with Fridtjof Nansen's Fram expedition in 1893 – 1896, and accompanied Nansen to notch a new Farthest North record near the North Pole on what was then the frozen Arctic Ocean.

By the time Fridtjof Nansen and Otto Sverdrup drifted through the polar ice pack in Fram in 1893 – 1895, the Open Polar Sea theory was defunct.

The deflection of surface currents was first noticed by the Norwegian oceanographer Fridtjof Nansen during the Fram expedition ( 1893 – 1896 ).

In 1893 Sverdrup was given command of the ship, and in 1895 he was left in charge of it while Nansen attempted to reach the North Pole.

The invention of the rotary printing press allowed the copious printing of books and newspapers and since 1893, Rudolf Diesel puzzled for four years with future MAN engineers in a laboratory in Augsburg until his first Diesel engine was completed and fully functional.

By 1893, the increased use of refrigerator cars had allowed many large meat packers to force smaller business under.

Certain European countries, New Zealand ( 1893 ), South Australia ( 1894 ) and Western Australia ( 1899 ) and a number of American states had allowed women to vote but not England.

In Major League Baseball play since 1893, with the essential modern rules in place, there have been eight instances when a pitcher allowed not a single baserunner through his pitching efforts over a complete game of at least nine innings, but was not awarded a perfect game because of fielding errors:

At the 1893 Hamburg International Photographic Exhibition in Germany, only the work of amateurs was allowed.

Women's most well known success after the founding of the nursing school was their requirement that they be allowed to attend Johns Hopkins medical institutions after they provided funds that made possible the opening of the School of Medicine in 1893.

The 1893 Bank Note Issue Act allowed the government to declare a bank's right to issue legal tender.

This new legislation included the original area as well as portions of ten townships annexed into the park since 1893, and allowed for further expansion by the addition of adjacent townships, should it become necessary.

Hydraulic mining was recommenced after 1893 when the United States Congress passed the Camminetti Act which allowed such mining if sediment detention structures were constructed.

The events of 1893 allowed Carranza to make some friends in high places, including Bernardo Reyes.

Originally produced as a tougher, stronger and more improved version of the Winchester 1893, itself a takeoff on the early Spencer pump gun, the 1897 was identical to its forerunner, except that the receiver was thicker and allowed for use of smokeless powder shells, which were not common at the time.

The college operated in Raleigh at the private Shaw University until 1893, when donations from Dr. Dewitt, C. Benbow and Charles H. Moore totaling $ 11, 000 and 14 acres ( 57, 000 m² ) of land allowed the establishment of a campus in Greensboro.

New Zealand women gained the right to vote in 1893, though were not allowed to stand for the House of Representatives until the election of 1919.

" Pyne's huge wealth allowed him to add two wings on each side of the house, in 1893 and 1900, both designed by Raleigh C. Gildersleeve ( who also designed many Princeton University buildings ) and including a paneled library.

New members had to be sponsored by existing members, and women were not allowed to join at all until 1893.

She obtained special consideration and was allowed to qualify for the bar by oral examination, which she passed in March, 1893.

Another law in 1893 allowed voters in each county to establish county road commissions.

1893 was the year universal suffrage was granted to women over 21 ( including Māori ), plural registration was abolished, plural voting for Māori property-owners was abolished, and only those whose descent was exactly half Māori or less were allowed to choose whether to vote in European or Māori electorates.

In 1893 Missouri Congressman John Charles Tarsney introduced a bill that allowed the Supervisory Architect to have competitions among private architects for major structures.

The Capone family immigrated to the United States, first immigrating from Italy to Rijeka, Croatia in 1893, traveling on a ship to the U. S and finally settled at 95 Navy Street, in the Navy Yard section of downtown Brooklyn.

* 1893 – The, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.

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

After an accidental meeting between Jamsetji N. Tata and Swami Vivekananda on a ship in 1893 where they discussed Tata's plan of bringing the steel industry to India, Tata wrote to Vivekananda five years later:

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

He walked through the drawing room of his family home in Eaton Square, London, looking straight ahead, without exchanging a word to anyone, in front of several guests at a party being given by his wife on 22 June 1893 whilst he was supposed to be in a ship of the Mediterranean Squadron, manoeuvering off the coast of Syria.

A statue was also erected in Chicago in 1901, having been originally commissioned for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to coincide with the arrival of a reconstructed Viking ship from Bergen, Norway.

In early 1893 in Bordeaux, France, mother and son boarded the ship SS Don Pedro and sailed to Buenos Aires, arriving on 11 March 1893.

* SS Rosedale, a ship wrecked in 1893 at St Ives, Cornwall

* The fourth Charybdis was an Astraea class 2nd class cruiser launched in 1893, converted to a cargo ship in 1918 and sold to Bermuda in 1922.

Brewster arrived in British Columbia in 1893, and had various careers working on a ship and then in a cannery.

" The Viking ," a replica of the ancient Viking ship " The Gokstad ", built at Framnes Shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway in 1892 and sailed across the Atlantic to the fair in 1893, is currently located at Good Templar Park in Geneva, Illinois.

The Viking, an exact replica of the Gokstad ship, crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Bergen, Norway to be exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago during 1893.

Gokstad ship replica Viking ( ship ) | Viking at the World's Columbian Exposition Chicago in 1893

*, a British cargo ship wrecked off the cost of the Netherlands in 1893

Frederick Wolseley and Herbert Austin left John Howard in charge of the Australian operation and returned to England by ship docking at Tilbury in November 1893.

He was employed for a time in the electrical department of William Cramp & Sons, a Philadelphia ship and engine building company, and in 1893 enlisted in the United States Navy as an electrician.

The year 1893 recorded the arrival of the first tourist ship at the entrance to the Bay, at Bartlett Cove, which over the years has become central to the tourist trade in the Glacier Bay.

Eventually Paraguay was decided upon, and Lane and his family and several hundred acolytes from New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia departed Mort Bay in Sydney in the ship Royal Tar on 1 July 1893.

On January 8, 1893, during the Dundee Whaling Expedition, the island was named by Captain Thomas Robertson of the Active and named for the home port, Dundee, Scotland, whence the ship sailed in company with three other vessels in search of whales.

When the ship Spirit of the Dawn ( with a crew of 16 ) foundered off the main island's coast in 1893, the eleven surviving crew spent nearly three months living as castaways on the island, living on raw muttonbirds, mussels and roots for 87 days before gaining the attention of the government steamer Hinemoa by a flag made from their sail.