Editing 1893 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
[[File:MIH-film12 color cerrected denoise.jpg|thumb|[[January 2]]: standard [[railroad chronometer]]s.]]
[[File:LocationCotedIvoire.png|thumb|[[March 10]]: [[Ivory Coast]] becomes French colony.]]
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Webb C. Ball]] introduces [[railroad chronometer]]s, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
* [[January 6]] &ndash; The [[Washington National Cathedral]] is chartered by Congress; the charter is signed by President [[Benjamin Harrison]].
* [[January 13]]
** The [[Independent Labour Party]] of the United Kingdom has its first meeting.
** U.S. Marines from the ''USS Boston'' land in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]], to prevent the queen from abrogating the [[Bayonet Constitution]].
* [[January 15]] &ndash; The ''[[Telefon Hírmondó]]'' service starts with around 60 subscribers, in [[Budapest]].
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii]]: [[Lorrin A. Thurston]] and the [[Committee of Safety (Hawaii)|Citizen's Committee of Public Safety]] in [[Hawaii]], with the intervention of the [[United States Marine Corps]], overthrow the government of Queen [[Liliuokalani]].
* [[January 21]] &ndash; The [[Tati Concessions Land]], formerly part of [[Matabeleland]], is formally annexed to the [[Bechuanaland Protectorate]] (modern-day [[Botswana]]).
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Thomas Edison]] finishes construction of the first [[film|motion picture]] studio in [[West Orange, New Jersey]].
* [[February 11]]–[[February 19|19]] &ndash; [[White Star Line]] cargo liner {{SS|Naronic}} sinks without a trace in heavy seas on the Liverpool–New York transatlantic passage.
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Rudolf Diesel]] receives a patent for the [[diesel engine]].
* [[February 24]] &ndash; The [[American University]] is established by an Act of Congress, in Washington, D.C.
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[USS Indiana (BB-1)|USS ''Indiana'']], the first [[battleship]] in the [[United States Navy]] comparable to other nation's battleships of the time, is launched.
* [[March 6]] &ndash; The [[Liverpool Overhead Railway]] opens with 2-car [[electric multiple unit]]s, the first to operate in the world. 
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Ivory Coast]] becomes a French colony.
* [[March 20]] &ndash; In Belgium, [[Adam Worth]] is sentenced to 7 years for robbery (he is released in [[1897]]).