Timeline September 1893

Events in September 1893 2

• 1893 Second Irish Home Rule Bill defeated Passed the Commons, rejected by the House of Lords William Gladstone's bill to grant Ireland domestic self-government passed the House of Commons on September 1, 1893. The House of Lords rejected it by an overwhelming margin a week later, ending the effort until the next home rule bill in 1912.
• 1893 New Zealand grants women the vote Electoral Act 1893 receives royal assent New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant women the right to vote in parliamentary elections. The Electoral Act 1893 followed years of campaigning led by Kate Sheppard and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Women voted for the first time in the general election that November.