Editing 1893 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
[[File:LocationLaos.png|thumb|160px|right| France conquers [[Laos]].]]
* [[October 10]] &ndash; The first car number plates appear in [[Paris]], [[France]].
* [[October 13]] 
** The first students enter [[St Hilda's College, Oxford]], England, founded for women by [[Dorothea Beale]].
** The Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1893 is signed, as the Kingdom of Siam cedes all of its territories east of the [[Mekong River]] to [[France]], creating the territory of [[Laos]].<ref>"Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1893", in ''Historical Dictionary of Laos'', by Martin Stuart-Fox (Scarecrow Press, 2008) p112</ref>
* [[October 14]] &ndash; A devastating [[levee]] collapse, [[flash flood]] and [[landslide]] hit and damage around [[Kyushu Island]], [[Shikoku Island]] and western [[Honshū]] in [[Japan]], due to a strong [[typhoon]] wind; an official document reports that 2,044 people perish.<ref>[[:ja:明治26年の台風]] ''(Japanese language edition)'' Retrieved on February 12, 2021.</ref>
* [[October 16]] &ndash; American sisters [[Patty Hill]] and [[Mildred J. Hill]] copyright their book ''Song Stories for the Kindergarten'' including "Good Morning to All".  The melody, by Mildred Hill, is later adapted, without authorization, by Robert H. Coleman as "Good Morning to You!", with the second stanza containing the words to "[[Happy Birthday to You]]", leading to a successful copyright lawsuit by the Hill sisters in [[1934]].<ref>James J. Fuld, ''The Book of World-famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk'' (Courier Corporation, 2000) p267</ref> 
* [[October 23]] &ndash; The [[Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization]] (IMRO) is founded in the town of [[Thessaloniki]]. Its aim is to liberate the region of [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]] from the [[Ottoman Turks]].
* [[October 28]] (October 16 [[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]]) &ndash; In [[Saint Petersburg]] (Russia), [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]] conducts the first performance of his [[Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky)|Symphony No. 6 in B minor, ''Pathétique'']], nine days before his death.
* [[October 30]] &ndash; The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the [[World's Columbian Exposition]], closes.
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[First Matabele War]]: [[Battle of Bembezi]], [[British South Africa Company]] defeats an assault by the [[Mthwakazi|Matabele]].
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Colorado]] women are granted the right to vote.
* [[November 12]] &ndash; The [[Durand Line]] is established as the boundary between [[British India]] and [[Afghanistan]], by a [[memorandum of understanding]] signed by Sir [[Mortimer Durand]], Foreign Secretary of British India, and [[Abdur Rahman Khan]], [[Amir of Afghanistan]].
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[FC Basel]] [[Association football]] club is founded in Switzerland.
* [[November 16]] &ndash; Athletic club Královské Vinohrady, later [[Sparta Prague]], is founded.
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s story "[[The Adventure of the Final Problem]]", published in the [[December]] dated issue of ''[[The Strand Magazine]]'' and serialized in Sunday newspapers worldwide, surprises the reading public by revealing that his popular character [[Sherlock Holmes]] had apparently died at the [[Reichenbach Falls]] on [[May 4]], [[1891]].<ref>"The Death of Sherlock Holmes", advertisement in ''Buffalo (NY) Evening News'', November 24, 1893, p1.</ref>
* [[December]]
** [[Mark Twain]]'s ''[[Pudd'nhead Wilson]]'' begins serialization in ''[[The Century Magazine]]'' (U.S.)
** [[Carl Anton Larsen]] becomes the first man to [[ski]] in Antarctica.
* [[December 4]] &ndash; [[First Matabele War]]: The [[Shangani Patrol]] of [[British South Africa Company]] soldiers is ambushed and annihilated, by more than 3,000 [[Northern Ndebele people|Matabele]] warriors.
* [[December 5]] &ndash; Plural voting is abolished in [[New South Wales]].
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Antonín Dvořák]]'s [[Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák)|Symphony No. 9]] (''From the New World'') receives its premiere at [[Carnegie Hall]], New York City, conducted by the composer, to immediate acclaim.
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Evergreen Park, Illinois]], is incorporated.