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

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.

Newton Heath's first league match at Bank Street was played against Burnley on 1 September 1893, when 10, 000 people saw Alf Farman score a hat-trick, Newton Heath's only goals in a 3 – 2 win.

* British — Gordon, Harry: Scottish entertainer ( 1893 – 1957 )— formed a Pierrot troupe in 1909 that played both in theaters and at seaside piers in the northeast of Scotland.

The Perth Citizens Band played " The Maple Leaf Forever " as the Mammoth Cheese departed to the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.

A kind of official recognition was when the King Oscar II rose in honour when the song was played, the first time in 1893.

Blind Boone played the piano at the opera house in 1893.

San Ygnacio played an important role in the Garza Revolution from 1891 to 1893.

Polo was first played in the area at a summer fair in Sheridan in 1893.

The play's Broadway première on 5 February 1893 at Palmer's Theatre was also the first Broadway performance for stage and screen actress Julia Arthur, who played Lady Windermere.

Hibs first played at the present site of Easter Road in 1893.

The first match at Easter Road was played on 4 February 1893, a friendly against Clyde.

Workington's first golf club was formed in 1893 and played north of the River Derwent near Siddick.

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

A younger brother, Bert, was a centre who played three times for Wales including in the same Welsh team as Gould that won the Triple Crown for the first time in 1893.

Finally it should be added that in Zajc's and Kuhač's era, major halls for musical performances and concerts were built: in Zagreb the building of the Croatian Music Institute ( 1876, 1895 ) with a concert hall, and the building of the Croatian National Theatre ( 1895 ), including the theatre buildings in Rijeka ( 1885 ), Split ( 1893 ) and Osijek ( 1907 ) where, along with the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, drama, opera and ballet performances are still played today.

Another was an independent team that played in 1893.

Hübner notes that an article by Friedrich Amelung in the journal Baltische Schachblaetter, 1893, reported that Kiesertizky probably played 20 ... Na6, but Anderssen then announced the mating moves.

Before the 1900s, the following tangos were being played: " El queco " ( anonymous, attributed to clarinetist Lino Galeano in 1885 ), " Señora casera " ( anonymous 1880 ), " Andate a la recoleta " ( anonymous 1880 ), " El Porteñito " ( by the Spaniard Gabriel Diez in 1880 ), " Tango Nº1 " ( Jose Machado-1883 ), " Dame la lata " ( Juan Perez, 1888 ), " Que polvo con tanto viento " ( anonymous 1890 ), " No me tires con la tapa de la olla " ( A. A. 1893 ), " El Talar " ( Prudencio Aragon-1895 ).

Nellie Melba played Nedda in London in 1892, soon after its Italian premiere, and in New York in 1893.

On September 6, 1893 Fish had retired from the evening having played cards with his daughter.

Alpin Errol Thomson, born 1893 in Perth, Australia, played rugby union for Scotland in 1921, and first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club in 1922 and 1923 and for a first-class Royal Navy team.

That year IFK played teams from outside Sweden for the first time, meeting the Danish clubs Østerbro BK and Boldklubben af 1893.

From 1893 onwards he played in over 50 international chess tournaments.

Later in the century the dream again found expression in the lines of Katherine Lee Bates ( 1859-1929 ), daughter and granddaughter of New England Congregational ministers, in her widely sung hymn, written in 1893, `` America The Beautiful '', with the words `` O beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern impassioned stress a thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness.

Nobel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884, the same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1893.

A prime research tool for film historians, the catalog consists of entries on more than 50, 000 films, from 1893 to the mid-1970s, documenting casts, crews, synopses and production notes.

He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

In 1893 Maillol opened a tapestry workshop in Banyuls, producing works whose high technical and aesthetic quality gained him recognition for renewing this art form in France.

In 1893 Mortimer Durand negotiated with Abdur Rahman Khan, the Durand Line Treaty for the demarcation of the frontier between Afghanistan, the FATA, North-West Frontier Province and Baluchistan Provinces of Pakistan the successor state of British India.

In 1893, Mortimer Durand was deputed to Kabul by the government of British India for this purpose of settling an exchange of territory required by the demarcation of the boundary between northeastern Afghanistan and the Russian possessions, and in order to discuss with Amir Abdur Rahman Khan other pending questions.

In the year 1893, during rule of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, a Royal Commission for setting up of Boundary between Afghanistan and British Governed India was set up to negotiate terms with the British, for the agreeing to the Durand line, and the two parties camped at Parachinar, now part of FATA Pakistan, which is near Khost, Afghanistan.

Batters have not been charged with a time at-bat for a sacrifice hit since 1893, but baseball has changed the sacrifice fly rule multiple times.

In 1893 the same printer brought several more drawings for Weatherly ’ s Our Dear Relations, another book of rhymes, and the following year Potter successfully sold a series of frog illustrations and verses for Changing Pictures, a popular annual offered by the art publisher Ernest Nister.

Moreover, already in 1893 Louis Saalschütz listed a total of 38 explicit formulas for the Bernoulli numbers,

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.

In 1891, Hughes left the practice of law to become a professor at the Cornell University Law School, but in 1893, he returned to his old law firm in New York City to continue practice until he ran for governor in 1906.

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 – Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist ( Chattanooga Choo Choo – I Only Have Eyes for You ) ( d. 1981 )

*" Diana of the Tower " a copper statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens was created as the weather vane for the second Madison Square Garden in 1893.

At Augsburg, on August 10, 1893, Rudolf Diesel's prime model, a single iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time.

In December 1893, Unter den Linden in Berlin held an exhibition of Munch's work, showing, among other pieces, six paintings entitled Study for a Series: Love.

In 1893 Satie met the young Maurice Ravel for the first time, Satie's style emerging in the first compositions of the youngster.

Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, fourth son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was a Liberal politician and was created Baron Stanmore in 1893 ( see this title for more information on him and this branch of the family ).