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James Hill organizes a larger rail system around the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, extending service to Seattle, Washington in 1893.

An insurrection led by Sanford Dole, a son of New England missionaries originally sent to Christianize the Hawaiian Islands, overthrows the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893.

Queen Liliʻuokalani had announced plans for a new constitution to proclaim herself an absolute monarch in 1893.

On January 14, 1893, a group of mostly Euro-American business leaders and residents form the Committee of Safety to stage a coup d'état against the kingdom and seek annexation by the United States.

United States Government Minister John L. Stevens, responding to a request from the Committee of Safety, summons a company of U.S. Marines.

The Queen's soldiers do not resist.

The first country to enfranchise women is New Zealand, under the Liberals in 1893.

The British acquire Burma's northeast region, the Shan States, in 1893.

Production and smuggling of opium thrive in Lower Burma despite British efforts to maintain a strict monopoly on the opium trade.

France adds the Protectorate of Laos to the Union of Indochina.

Siam cedes to France all her territories on the left bank of the Mekong (Laos) and all islands in the river in 1893.

Standard Oil establishes resident agents in the Far East in 1893.

Vaccinations have been performed on twenty-five million, four hundred and seventy-four thousand, three hundred and seventy Japanese in the seven-year period that began in 1886; this represents sixty-six percent of Japan's entire population.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, beginning to call himself Lenin and devoting himself full time to revolutionary activities from 1893, studies the problem of revolutionary change in Russia from a Marxist perspective.

Wassily Kandinsky pursues his academic career and in 1893 is granted the degree equivalent of a doctorate.

He has lost much of his early enthusiasm for the social sciences, but he feels that art is "a luxury forbidden to a Russian."