Hawaiian History Timeline

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  • Period: 300 to Dec 31, 700

    Polynesians First Settled on Hawaii

    This is the first time hawaii was settled by human, which started hawaiian human history and caused the conflicts between colonists and native people

  • Captain Cook

    Captain Cook from britain “found” and colonized hawaii, which stopped the rule of hawaii monarchy, brought large amount of colonists to hawaii, and the loss of local population because of disease
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    Kamehameha I

    He conquered hawaii islands and unified hawaii

  • coffee and pineapple were introduced to Hawaii

    These are important cash crops of hawaii, which made huge profit and helped the growth of local economy

  • Kamehameha II abolished local religion

    This marks the shift of local philosophy and allowed christianity to spread in hawaii, which attracted more immigrants from Europe

  • Hawaii adopted first constitution

    The symbol of a government, prepare for Hawaii to later become an independent country

  • First Japanese contract workers arrived

    Marks the arrival of asians to Hawaii, then more people came, which later made up the largest racial group of Hawaii

  • Republic of Hawaii established

    End of the british colonization, Hawaii became independent country, which made it later became US territory possible

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Japanese invaded pearl harbor, which brought US into world war II and declared war on japan, bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Hawaii became a US state

    Determined Hawaii’s status today