Top 10 Hawaii Events

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    Polynesians arrive in Hawaii

    Important because these were the first people in Hawaii.

  • Spanish sailors are first european people to find the islands

    It is important because this was the first european contact that Hawaiian people had.

  • James cook and the british navy sail to the hawaiian islands

    It is important because this is when the contact between european influences and Hawaiian people became stronger.

  • King Kamehameha I first unifies the hawaiian islands

    Important because he unified the hawaiian islands first.

  • Protestant missionaries teach christianity

    White people star to influence the culture in Hawaii.

  • Smallpox virus takes 5,000 Hawaiian lives

    Important because that may be a reason for the hawaiian population being less now than back then.

  • Electricity arrives

    Shows that Hawaii is modernizing.

  • Hawaii becomes a US territory

    Important because Hawaii becomes aligned with US for the first time.

  • Pearl Harbor was Attacked

    Important because it pushed hawaii and the US into world war II.

  • Hawaii became the fiftieth state of the US

    Important because now Hawaii is a full pert of the US.