In 1893 he played for the French organist Charles-Marie Widor ( at Saint-Sulpice, Paris ), for whom Johann Sebastian Bach's organ-music contained a mystic sense of the eternal.

* 1893 – Violette Morris, French athlete ( d. 1944 )

When the capital was burned in 1893, the sultan sought and received protectorate status from the French.

* 1975 – Pierre Dac, French humorist ( b. 1893 )

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.

* 1818 – Charles Gounod, French composer ( d. 1893 )

The Kerguelen Islands, along with the islands of Amsterdam and St. Paul, and the Crozet archipelago were officially annexed by France in 1893, and were included as possessions in the French constitution in 1924 ( in addition to that portion of Antarctica claimed by France and known as Adélie Land ; as with all Antarctic territorial claims, France's possession on the continent is held in abeyance until a new international treaty is ratified that defines each claimant's rights and obligations ).

Following its occupation of Vietnam, France absorbed Laos into French Indochina via treaties with Siam in 1893 and 1904.

In 1893, the French appointed a civilian governor of the territory they called Soudan Français ( French Sudan ), but active resistance to French rule continued.

* 1981 – Odette Barencey, French film actress ( b. 1893 )

* 1893 – René Voisin, French classical trumpet player ( d. 1952 )

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.

** Charles Gounod, French composer ( d. 1893 )

* June 17 – Pierre Jamet, French harpist ( b. 1893 )

** Arsène Roux, French Arabist ( b. 1893 )

* March 19 – Gaston Julia, French mathematician ( b. 1893 )

* August 5 – Guy de Maupassant, French writer ( d. 1893 )

* April 5 – Jules Ferry, French premier, ( d. 1893 )

In 1893 Côte d ' Ivoire was made a French colony, and then Captain Binger was appointed governor.

Agreements with Liberia in 1892 and with Britain in 1893 determined the eastern and western boundaries of the colony, but the northern boundary was not fixed until 1947 because of efforts by the French government to attach parts of Upper Volta ( present-day Burkina Faso ) and French Sudan ( present-day Mali ) to Côte d ' Ivoire for economic and administrative reasons.

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

* Alexander Cunningham ( 1814 – 1893 ), British archaeologist, father of the Archaeological Survey of India

The ruins were first excavated by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in 1893.

Sir Alexander Cunningham KCIE CSI ( 23 January 1814 – 28 November 1893 ) was a British archaeologist and army engineer, known as the father of the Archaeological Survey of India.

Ellsworth joined the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society in 1893, reflecting his lifelong passion of coin collecting.

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.

The Theological College of the School of Alexandria was reestablished in 1893.

Partial excavation of the round building was undertaken in 1892 and 1893 by the American School at Athens.

Lewiston State Normal School, now Lewis-Clark State College, was established in 1893, as was another normal school or teacher education college, now defunct, in the south at Twin Falls.

On January 27, 1893, Idaho Governor William J. McConnell signed an Act authorizing the establishment of the Lewiston State Normal School in Lewiston.

In 1893, the Oraibi Day School was opened in the Oraibi village.

Manual and Male High School have the oldest football rivalry in the state, dating back to 1893.

In 1950, the college moved to Takoma Park, absorbing the Bliss Electrical School, a private, for-profit institution formed in 1893, and that had occupied the site since 1908.

( 1833 – 1900 ), Professor of Theology in the Hamma Divinity School was famously tried for and unanimously acquitted of heresy by the Board of Directors at Wittenberg on April 4 and April 5, 1893, which put on trial many key issues that Lutherans still debate today.

* 1893 First Hemet Elementary School built-Alessandro Street.

In 1893, Yolo County's second high school was established in the town of Esparto, Esparto High School, but a building for it was not built until 1918.

Beginning in 1893 it was home of the Albion State Normal School, which trained many Idaho teachers.

On January 3, 1893, the U. S. government opened an Indian boarding school called the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial School.

In 1893, the year that local government was first organized, the first Floodwood School building was constructed of logs.

In 1893 New Mexico Normal School was established.

Old North, the Territorial Normal School ’ s iconic first building, was opened for classes on January 2, 1893, and ahead of Oklahoma State University ’ s Central Hall or Oklahoma University's Science Hall.

The Themelthorpe to Aylsham line was completed in 1893 by the Great Eastern Railway to provide a link to its other lines at Wroxham and County School railway station close to North Elmham.

Shortly afterwards, in 1893, Osler was instrumental in the creation of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and became one of the school's first professors in medicine.

In 1893, she co-authored the Hull-House Maps and Papers that came to define the interests and methodologies of the School.

Natsume graduated in 1893, and enrolled for some time as a graduate student and part-time teacher at the Tokyo Normal School.

While stationed at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, in 1893, Wood enrolled in graduate school at Georgia Tech, then known as the Georgia School of Technology, and became the school's second football coach and, as a player, its team captain.

In 1891, at the age of 18, he enrolled at the Drawing School of the Viipuri Friends of Art, and also studied at the Drawing School of the Finnish Art Association ( Suomen Taideyhdistys ) ( 1893 – 1895 ), but in 1895 decided to become the private pupil of Akseli Gallen-Kallela at his wilderness studio Kalela in Ruovesi.

Johns Hopkins ' bequest was used to posthumously found the Johns Hopkins Colored Children Orphan Asylum first as he requested, in 1875 ; the Johns Hopkins University in 1876 ; the Johns Hopkins Press, the longest continuously operating academic press in America, in 1878 ; the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1889 ; the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1893 ; and the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1916.