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.
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World’s Columbian Exposition, fair held in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage to America. The chief planner was the Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham. The classical facades of the fair’s ‘White City’ were electrically lighted at night.
May 1 - The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, Illinois. The first U.S. commemorative postage stamp s and Coin s are issued for the Exposition.
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America hosted the World's Fair of 1893 as a celebration of Columbus' voyage to the continent four hundred (and one) years earlier. Chicago beat out New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. for...
The last Washington bank to fail in 1893, and the first in Seattle to go down, was the Security Savings Bank, which closed its doors on . In total, 32 Washington banks failed in little more than seven months, and the carnage was not nearly over.
MIKIMOTO is Japan's representative jeweler. In 1893, the founder, Kokichi Mikimoto, was the first in the world to successfully culture a pearl. Inheriting the founder’s vision of “adorning all women in the world with pearls,” Mikimoto has been dedicated to the cultivation of beauty for more than a century.