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.

Ravel's String Quartet in F, probably modeled on Debussy ’ s Quartet ( 1893 ), is now a standard work of chamber music, though at the time it was criticized and found lacking academically.

Dorothy's shoes ( made of silver in the book, not the familiar ruby that is depicted in the movie ) are interpreted to symbolize using free silver instead of the gold standard ( the road of yellow brick ) because the shortage of gold precipitated the Panic of 1893.

However, the specific requirements varied among the states, making implementation difficult for interstate rail carriers, and Congress passed the Safety Appliance Act in 1893 to provide a uniform standard.

One of the most successful composers of the following generation was Engelbert Humperdinck, whose Hänsel und Gretel ( 1893 ) still has an assured place in the standard repertoire.

However, the specific requirements varied among the states, making implementation difficult for interstate rail carriers, and Congress passed the Safety Appliance Act in 1893 to provide a uniform standard.

The talari ( thaler, dollar, birr ) became the standard unit on 9 February 1893 and 200, 000 dollars were produced at the Paris Mint in 1894 for Menelik II.

In the trivia book series Imponderables, David Feldman reports the standard story about the bar being named for Grover Cleveland's daughter, with additional information that ties it to the President: " The trademark was patterned exactly after the engraved lettering of the name used on a medallion struck for the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and picturing the President, his wife, and daughter Baby Ruth.

This was the population density standard of settlement which historian Frederick Jackson Turner used in his " Frontier Thesis " to declare the American Frontier " closed " in 1893.

When the Mendenhall Order in 1893 declared the meter to be the fundamental length standard, No. 27 became the US primary national standard for all length measurements.

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.

The character was in the Brussels police force by 1893.

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

A collection of his work, Les minutes de sable mémorial, was published in 1893.

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.

He was followed by Ḍiyá ' iyyih < u > Kh </ u > ánum, Fu ’ ádíyyih < u > Kh </ u > ánum ( d. few years old ), Rúhangíz Khánum ( d. 1893 ), Túbá Khánum, Husayn Effendi ( d. 1887 aged 5 ), Túbá < u > Kh </ u > ánum, Rúhá < u > Kh </ u > ánum and Munnavar < u > Kh </ u > ánum.

However, their time in league football was even less successful and considerably briefer than that of Accrington Stanley: they dropped out of the league in 1893 and folded shortly afterwards due to financial problems.

Alexandria was founded in 1836 and was chartered as a city in 1893.

The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of the Matabele kingdom, was administered from the Bechuanaland Protectorate after 1893, to which it was formally annexed in 1911.

After a series of rival leagues were organized but failed, ( most notably the American Base Ball Association, which spawned the clubs which would ultimately become the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers ) the current American League, evolving from the minor Western League of 1893, was established in 1901.

The institution, also called BankItalia, was established in 1893 from the combining of three major banks in Italy after the Banca Romana scandal.

In September 1893 Potter was on holiday at Eastwood in Dunkeld, Perthshire.

" Blind " Lemon Jefferson ( Lemon Henry Jefferson ; September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929 ) was an American blues singer and guitarist from Texas.

By 1900, the family was farming southeast of Streetman, Texas, and Lemon Jefferson's birth date is indicated as September 1893 in the 1900 census.

The 1910 census, taken in May before his birthday, further confirms his birth year as 1893, and indicated the family was farming northwest of Wortham, near Lemon Jefferson's birthplace.

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

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.

His father, Henry Churchill de Mille ( 1853 – 1893 ), was a North Carolina-born dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church, who had earlier begun a career as a playwright, writing his first play at age 15.

Clark Ashton Smith ( 13 January 1893 – 14 August 1961 ) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories.

Smith was born January 13, 1893 in Long Valley, California, of English and Yankee parentage.

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.

In 1893 it extended voting rights to women, making New Zealand the first country in the world to enact universal female suffrage.

* 1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.

In 1893, King Alexander, aged sixteen, in a first coup d ' état proclaimed himself of full age, dismissed the regents and their government, and took the royal authority into his own hands.

* Alexander of Bulgaria ( 1857 – 1893 ), first prince of Bulgaria

* 1893 – The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

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.

* War of Canudos ( 1893 – 1897 ): The deadliest rebellion of Brazil, the insurrectionists defeated the first 3 military forces sent to quell the rebellion.

In 1893, the Badminton Association of England published the first set of rules according to these regulations, similar to today's rules, and officially launched badminton in a house called " Dunbar " at 6 Waverley Grove, Portsmouth, England on September 13 of that year.

Crime wave first attested in 1893 in American English.

Young's perfect game was the first under the modern rules established in 1893.

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

In 1893 he described a " slow-combustion engine " that first compressed air thereby raising its temperature above the igniting-point of the fuel, then gradually introducing fuel while letting the mixture expand " against resistance sufficiently to prevent an essential increase of temperature and pressure ", then cutting off fuel and " expanding without transfer of heat ".

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.

It was popularized by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin ( 1856 – 1926 ) in 1893, 1896 and 1899 in his first detailed textbook descriptions of a condition that would eventually be reframed into a substantially different disease concept and relabeled as schizophrenia.

The first major Danish encyclopedia was Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon ( 19 volumes, 1893 – 1911 ).

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

" When he first introduced this concept as a diagnostic entity in the fourth German edition of his Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie in 1893, it was placed among the degenerative disorders alongside, but separate from, catatonia and dementia paranoides.

In 1891 Essendon won their first VFA premiership, which they repeated in 1892, 1893 and 1894.

The results of this work were first shown in public in 1893, using the viewing apparatus also designed by Dickson, and called the Kinetoscope.

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.