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Arrival
Polynesian folklore describes the first people of Hawaii coming by canoe from Tahiti. -
Captain Cookʻs Arrival
Captain Cook sailed to the Hawaiian islands. Back then, when he first arrived, he named the islands The Sandwhich Islands after one of the sponsers of the voyage. He then sailed to Alaska and mapped his jounrey. After mapping the voyage he went back to the islands in November. -
Captain Cooks Return
Captian Cook went to the Big Island. After realizing one of his dinghies was taken from the ship he kidnapped the chief. He used this leverage to bargan for his dinghy. He was killed for his doings. -
Missionaries
Protestant missionaries arrvived in the Hawaiian Islands. The leaders of the mission made sure the Christianity dominated the islands religion. -
Sugar
A sugar plantation started on Kauai. This one was the first to start in the Hawaiian Islands. -
Constitution
Hawaii made its first constitution. The islands were originally Feudal Society and it changed in 1840 when it became a Constitutional Monarchy. -
DISEASE
A disease known as smallpox killed over 5,000 Hawaiians. -
Tax-Free
Kalakaua visited President Ulysses S. Grant which pushed the U.S allowing Hawaiian sugar and rice to enter the U.S tax-free. -
1887
King Kalakaua allowed exclusive use of Pearl Harbor to the United States. -
Overthrown
Queen Liliuokalani was overthrown after 98 years of the Royal Hawaiian Kingdom sovereignty.