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| 1893 |
| | | George Westinghouse demonstrates the advantages of AC (Alternating Current) when he provides 100,000 lights for the Chicago World's Fair | |
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| 1893 |
| | | The Gaelic League is founded to restore the use of Gaelic as Ireland's spoken language | |
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| 1893 |
| | | After a gap of 30 years, work resumes on the Temperate House. Eventually, after the bankruptcy of one contractor, it opens in May 1899 as the world's largest plant house. | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Anton Dvorák's Ninth Symphony, subtitled 'From the New World', has its first performance in New York | |
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| 1893 |
| | | The Scottish game of shinty is provided with a standardized set of rules | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Tchaikovsky's symphony no. 6, known as the 'Pathetic' or Pathétique, has its premiere in St Petersburg | |
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| 1893 |
| | | France incorporates Laos within French Indochina | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky dies after a short illness, possibly from cholera or perhaps in sinister circumstances that remain the subject of controversy | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Joseph Stapley, aged 80, is the oldest of the five paupers admitted to the Richmond Workhouse on December 1 | |
|  | Admission to the Richmond Workhouse, 1893
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| 1893 |
| | | Hansel and Gretl, an opera by German composer Engelbert Humperdinck, has its premiere in Weimar | |
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