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In 1893, Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election. This featured entry focuses on the immediate decision and its direct historical impact.
November 28 in History
1893 — Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election
November 28 spans 57 recorded events across recorded history, from 587 to 2020. Below is a curated digest of the most significant moments tied to this date.
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57 events
587 – 2020
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More major events on November 28
The featured story and these ranked highlights form a quick summary. Every recorded event remains available in the chronology below.
- 1920 FIDAC (The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations), the first international organization of war veterans is established in Paris, France. Source
- 1983 Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-9, the first mission to carry the European Space Agency's Spacelab module. Source
- 1967 The first pulsar (PSR B1919+21, in the constellation of Vulpecula) is discovered by two astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish. Source
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Women's suffrage was an important political issue in the late-nineteenth-century New Zealand. This helps explain why the event mattered beyond the initial announcement.
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In early colonial New Zealand, as in other European societies, women were excluded from any involvement in politics. This clarifies the institutional and public response around the event.
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Public opinion began to change in the latter half of the nineteenth century and after years of effort by women's suffrage campaigners, led by Kate Sheppard, New Zealand became the first nation in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections. This shows how the event shaped policy and public communication in the same period.
Did you know
In 1893, Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election had consequences that extended beyond the first headline. The key context is the institutions involved, the policy shift, and how the public response evolved afterward.
587
Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram of Burgundy recognizes Childebert II as his heir.
587 treaty between Burgundy and Austrasia
936
Shi Jingtang is enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang.
Emperor of Later Jin from 936 to 942
1443
Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in central Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
Albanian warlord and military commander (1405–1468)
1470
Champa–Đại Việt War: Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Đại Việt formally launches his attack against Champa.
Invasion of the Kingdom of Champa
1520
After 38 days, an expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan completes the first passage through the Strait of Magellan and enters the Pacific Ocean.
Portuguese explorer (1480–1521)
1582
In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 (equivalent to £13,818 in 2025) bond in lieu of posting wedding banns, which enables them to marry immediately.
Town in Warwickshire, England
1627
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy has its greatest and last naval victory in the Battle of Oliwa.
Navy of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
1660
At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
Educational institution in London, England
1666
At least 3,000 men of the Royal Scots Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter insurgents led by James Wallace of Auchens in the Battle of Rullion Green.
Army of the Kingdom of Scotland from 1660 to 1707
1785
The first Treaty of Hopewell is signed, by which the United States acknowledges Cherokee lands in what is now East Tennessee.
Treaties between the U.S. and southeastern Indian tribes
1798
Trade between the United States and modern-day Uruguay begins when John Leamy's frigate John arrives in Montevideo.
American merchant
1811
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.
5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
1814
The Times of London becomes the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered printing press, built by the German team of Koenig & Bauer.
British daily national newspaper
1821
Panama Independence Day: Panama separates from Spain and joins Gran Colombia.
1843
Ka Lā Hui (Hawaiian Independence Day): The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
Country in the Pacific Ocean (1795–1893)
1861
American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Missouri to be the 12th state of the Confederacy.
1861–1865 conflict in the United States
1862
American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G.
Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.
1862
Notts County F.C.
is founded in Nottingham, England, making it the oldest professional Association football club in the world.
1885
Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
1885 war between Serbia and Bulgaria
1895
The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois.
Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
1899
The Second Boer War: A British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.
1899–1902 war in South Africa
1905
Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
Irish politician and writer, founder of Sinn Féin (1871–1922)
1908
A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.
Borough in Pennsylvania, US
1912
Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Country in Southeast Europe
1914
World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
Global conflict from 1914 to 1918
1917
The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
Estonian post-1917 revolution legislature
1918
The Soviet Forces move against Estonia when the 6th Red Rifle Division strikes the border town of Narva, marking the beginning of the Estonian War of Independence.
Invasion by the Russian SFSR
1919
Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
1920
FIDAC (The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations), the first international organization of war veterans is established in Paris, France.
Former organization of war veterans
1920
Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush: The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.
1919–1921 war between Irish and British forces
1925
The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance.
Radio and television broadcast from Nashville, Tennessee
1942
In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people.
Capital and largest city in Massachusetts, United States
1943
World War II: Tehran Conference: U.S.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.
1958
Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
Country in Central Africa
1958
First successful flight of SM-65 Atlas; the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas rocket family.
First operational American intercontinental ballistic missile
1964
Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
NASA space program from 1962 to 1973
1964
Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S.
President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
1965
Vietnam War: In response to U.S.
President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
1966
Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
1st President of Burundi (1966–76)
1967
The first pulsar (PSR B1919+21, in the constellation of Vulpecula) is discovered by two astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish.
Type of neutron star with beams of radiation
1971
Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.
Indigenous people in British Columbia, Canada
1971
Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Prime Minister of Jordan in 1962–63, 1965–67 and 1970–71
1972
Last executions in Paris: Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems are guillotined at La Santé Prison.
French criminal (1933–1972)
1975
1979
Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
1979 aircraft accident in Antarctica
1980
Iran–Iraq War: Operation Morvarid: The bulk of the Iraqi Navy is destroyed by the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf.
(Commemorated in Iran as Navy Day.)
1983
Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-9, the first mission to carry the European Space Agency's Spacelab module.
Space Shuttle orbiter (1981–2003)
1987
South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.
1987 aviation accident in the Indian Ocean
1989
Cold War: Velvet Revolution: In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
1947–1991 geopolitical rivalry between US and USSR
1990
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader of the Conservative Party and, therefore, as Prime Minister.
She is succeeded in both positions by John Major.
1991
South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
Partially recognised state in the South Caucasus
2002
Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air missiles.
Terrorist attacks in Kenya
2014
Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Kano killing at least 120 people.
2014 Boko Haram terror attack in Northern Nigeria, Nigeria
2016
LaMia Flight 2933 crashes near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 of 77 people on board, including members of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense
2016 aviation accident, in Colombia
2020
Over seven hundred civilians are massacred by the Ethiopian National Defense Force and Eritrean Army in Aksum, Ethiopia.
Combined military force of Ethiopia