Then in 1893 Dr. William Jewett Tucker became president and the college's great awakening began.

* 1893 – Ibadan area became a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.

The Western League, founded in 1893, became particularly aggressive.

The Broadway Surface Railroad's Broadway Line, a cable car line, opened on lower Broadway ( below Times Square ) in 1893, and soon became the core of the Metropolitan Street Railway, with two cable branches: the Broadway and Lexington Avenue Line and Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line.

The Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, which later became more famously known as the Stanley Cup, was first awarded in 1893 to the Montreal HC, champions of the AHAC.

Not only were there rival machines with " down-stroke " and " frontstroke " positions that gave a visible printing point, the problem of typebar clashes could be circumvented completely: examples include Thomas Edison's 1872 electric print-wheel device which later became the basis for Teletype machines ; Lucien Stephen Crandall's typewriter ( the second to come onto the American market ) whose type was arranged on a cylindrical sleeve ; the Hammond typewriter of 1887 which used a semi-circular " type-shuttle " of hardened rubber ( later light metal ); and the Blickensderfer typewriter of 1893 which used a type wheel.

After the discovery and excavation of these monuments and associated stone slabs by Russian archaeologists in the wider area surrounding the Orkhon Valley between 1889 and 1893, it became established that the language on the inscriptions was the Old Turkic language written using the Orkhon script, which has also been referred to as " Turkic runes " or " runiform " due to a superficial similarity to the Germanic runic alphabets.

Two Home Rule Bills ( 1886 and 1893 ) were introduced by Liberal Prime Minister Ewart Gladstone, but neither became law, mainly due to opposition from the House of Lords.

The financial Panic of 1893 intensified the debates, and when Democratic President Grover Cleveland continued to support the gold standard against the will of much of his party, activists became determined to take over the Democratic Party organization and nominate a silver-supporting candidate in 1896.

Côte d ' Ivoire officially became a French colony on March 10, 1893.

David Ivor Davies ( 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951 ), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.

In December 1893 he also became the first person to ski in Antarctica where the Larsen Ice Shelf was named after him.

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.

# Mary of Teck ( 9 November 1901 – 6 May 1910 ) — Married George, Duke of York, on 6 July 1893 and became Duchess of York ; became Duchess of Cornwall on the accession of her father-in-law as Edward VII of the United Kingdom on 22 January 1901 ; became Princess of Wales on 9 November 1901 ; became queen consort upon accession of husband George V on 6 May 1910.

There he met and became friends with Bert Phillips and the older and more experienced artist Joseph Henry Sharp, who told the two younger artists about his 1893 visit to Taos, New Mexico.

Earlier in 1893, Professor McKendrick, of Glasgow, had examined subject and reported unfavourably on the scant knowledge of the special senses displayed by the candidates ; it was in reaction to this that Sir Michael Foster, who had seen the potential in this shy, retiring Bart's man, appointed Rivers as a lecturer and he became Fellow Commoner at St John's College forthwith.

In 1893, New Zealand became the first major nation to achieve universal suffrage, and the Freedom in the World index lists New Zealand as the only free country in the world in 1893.

In 1893, the British colony of New Zealand became the first self-governing nation to extend the right to vote to all adult women.

This new precedent was followed by other large municipalities: Leeds and Sheffield became cities in 1893, and Bradford, Kingston upon Hull and Nottingham were honoured on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.

Lieutenant General Pedro Augusto del Valle ( August 28, 1893 – April 28, 1978 ) was a United States Marine Corps officer who became the first Hispanic to reach the rank of Lieutenant General.

Hershey became fascinated with the machinery to make German chocolate exhibited at the 1893 World ’ s Columbian Exposition by J. M. Lehman Co. of Dresden, Germany, and bought the equipment for his company.

When President Cleveland was elected to a second, non-consecutive term in 1893, George B. Cortelyou, formally trained as a stenographer, was named confidential stenographer at the White House and later named executive clerk.

He was elected the circuit court clerk for Butler County in 1892 and served from January 1, 1893, until his resignation in 1896.

Finch rose from the position of clerk to that of chief examiner between 1893 and 1908.

He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1892 to 1894, and from 1893 to 1897 he was a clerk for the U. S. Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce.

As an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs he was appointed to clerk of consulate in the city of Bitola, where he eventually married ( 1893 ).

Edith Thompson was born Edith Jessie Graydon on Christmas Day 1893, at 97 Norfolk Road in Dalston, London, the first of the five children of William Eustace Graydon ( 1867 – 1941 ), a clerk with the Imperial Tobacco Company, and his wife, Ethel Jessie Liles ( 1872 – 1938 ), the daughter of a police constable.

After studying history, philosophy, law and economics in Strasbourg, Leipzig and Bonn he started his career in law in 1882 as a law clerk and in 1893 became a judge in Velbert.

In 1893, he moved to Elwood, Indiana, and served as city clerk from 1898 to 1902.

He was elected assistant clerk of the first house of representatives in the Territory in 1855 ; county clerk and register of deeds 1855-1857 ; studied law ; admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Tecumseh ; justice of the peace 1857 ; county attorney of Shawnee County 1858-1860 ; postmaster of Tecumseh 1858-1859 ; deputy United States attorney 1859-1861 ; reporter of the State supreme court 1860 ; moved to Topeka and practiced law in 1861 ; member, State house of representatives 1871-1875 ; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor in 1876 and for the United States Senate in 1877 ; district judge 1883-1885 ; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Fiftieth Congress ; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1888 ; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate on January 25, 1893, to fill the remainder of the term left vacant by the death of Preston B. Plumb ; served from March 4, 1893, to March 3, 1895 ; chairman, Committee on Railroads ( Fifty-third Congress ); clerk of the Supreme Court of Kansas 1897-1899.

In 1893, Henry S. Cochran, a weighing clerk, was found to have embezzled $ 134, 000 in gold bars from the mint vault over a period of 8-10 years.

Abner Doubleday ( June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893 ) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War.

* 1893 – The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.

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.

Clement Martyn Doke ( 16 May 1893 in Bristol, United Kingdom – 24 February 1980 in East London, South Africa ) was a South African linguist working mainly on African languages.

The United States Mint operated a branch mint in Carson City between the years 1870 and 1893, which struck gold and silver coins.

Number One Observatory Circle, located on the northeast grounds of the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, was built in 1893 for its superintendent.

* 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.

One of the earliest college basketball games in the United States occurred at Geneva College on April 8, 1893 when the Geneva College Covenanters defeated the New Brighton YMCA.

When the administrative secretariats established by the Paris Convention ( 1883 ) and the Berne Convention ( 1886 ) merged in 1893, they located in Berne, and also adopted the term intellectual property in their new combined title, the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property.

A similar sport had been popular in the United States ( US ) during this time called ice polo, but by 1893 the first ice hockey matches were being played at Yale University and Johns Hopkins University.

* 1893 – The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.

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.

* 1893 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.

The United States nautical mile was defined as 1853. 248 metres ( 6080. 20 U. S. feet, based on the definition of the foot in the Mendenhall Order of 1893 ): it was abandoned in favour of the international nautical mile in 1954.

* 1822 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States ( d. 1893 )

Pepsi was first introduced as " Brad's Drink " in New Bern, North Carolina, United States, in 1893 by Caleb Bradham, who made it at his drugstore where the drink was sold.

Little interest was expressed by those he spoke to during trips to the United States in 1893 and London in 1894, and an attempt to involve the Germans angered French gymnasts who did not want the Germans invited at all.

The groups range from those seeking territorial units similar to Indian reservations under the United States with the least amount of independent control to the Hawaiian sovereignty movement which would have the most amount of control, The Hawaiian Sovereignty movement aims at reviving the Hawaiian nation under the Hawaiian constitution, which has retained its sovereignty while under prolonged illegal occupation since 1893.

* William V. Allen, United States Senator from Nebraska, 1893 – 1901.

* Women's suffrage movement continues to make gains as women obtain full voting rights in New Zealand ( 1893 ), the Grand Duchy of Finland ( 1906 ), Denmark ( 1915 ), the United Kingdom in 1918 ( women over 30 ) and in 1928 ( full enfranchisement ), and in the United States in 1920 ; women begin to enter the workplace in larger numbers.

* March 4 – Grover Cleveland, 22nd President of the United States ( 1885 – 1889 ) is succeeded by Benjamin Harrison ( 1889 – 1893 ).

** Dean Acheson, United States Secretary of State ( b. 1893 )

* October 4 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States ( d. 1893 )

* Tobias Bamberg's magic stage act as " Okito " ( Germany, 1893 – United States, 1908 )