1893 in China
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Events from the year 1893 in China.
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Incumbents
- Guangxu Emperor[1] (19th year)
Events
- November 29 â establishment of Wuhan University
Births
- January 9 â Gu Zhutong, nationalist general and administrator (d. 1987)
- January 27 â Soong Ching-ling, Honorary Chairwoman of China and wife of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981)
- February 2
- Sun Lianzhong, nationalist general (d. 1990)
- Damdin Sükhbaatar, Mongolian communist revolutionary (d. 1923)
- March 18 â Bai Chongxi, 1st Minister of National Defense of the Republic of China (d. 1966)
- May 8 â Gu Jiegang, folklorist, historian and sinologist (d. 1980)
- May 30 â Zhu Jiahua, scientist, geologist and nationalist politician (d. 1963)
- June 15 â Zhang Shenfu, philosopher and political activist (d. 1986)
- July 4 â Wang Mingzhang, nationalist general (d. 1938)
- July 10 â Wang Jialie, former Chairman of Guizhou (d. 1966)
- August 4 â Tang Yongtong, educator, philosopher and scholar (d. 1964)
- August 17 â Abing, musician (d. 1950)
- August 25 â Tu Tsung-ming, Taiwanese pharmacologist and educator (d. 1986)
- October 1 â Ip Man, martial arts grandmaster (d. 1972)
- October 18
- Liang Shuming, philosopher, politician and writer in the Rural Reconstruction Movement (d. 1988)
- Lee Kong Chian, prominent Singaporean Chinese businessman and philanthropist (d. 1967)
- October 20 â Xiong Qinglai, mathematician (d. 1969)
- November 26 â Yang Hucheng, general during the Warlord era (d. 1949)
- December 26 â Mao Zedong, 1st Paramount Leader of China (d. 1976)
Date unknown
- Van Chu-Lin, New Zealand homemaker and storekeeper (d. 1946)
Deaths
- March 26 â Chonghou, official and diplomat (b. 1826)