top 10+ hawaiian history events

By emihiggins
  • 500 BCE

    Polynesians arrive in hawaii

  • First group of American Protestant missionaries arrive

  • The first sugar plantation is established on Kauai Island

    This was the start of a huge industry, and was also the reason for for many Asian immigrants coming for work

  • Hawaii adopted its first constitution

    This lead to more and more governmental structure

  • Smallpox epidemic takes the lives of over 5,000 Hawaiians

    If this hadn't have happened, the current population of Hawaiians would have been much greater present day

  • Constitution strips monarch of considerable power

    pressure from U.S. investors and American sugar planters, Kalakaua agreed to a new constitution stripping him of power and allowed for the establishment of a U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor.

  • Hawaiian monarchy is overthrown

    A group of American sugar planters with help from the U.S. government in 1893 overthrew Queen Liliuokalani and set up a new provincial government.

  • the U.S. annexed Hawaii in 1898

    Hawaii is now apart of the United States

  • Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and Oahu on Dec. 7

    the United States declared war on Japan and entered World War II. Many of the damaged ships and submarines were repaired by armed forces and used in the war. The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific was dedicated in 1949 in Honolulu; thousands are buried there. (The bombing of Pearl Harbor killed many, many people and triggered us into joining World War II.

  • Hawaii becomes a state

    The U.S. government approved statehood for Hawaii in March 1959 and the Hawaiian people voted by a wide margin the following June to accept admittance into the United States. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation on Aug. 21, 1959, admitting Hawaii to the union as its 50th state. (Hawaii is officially a state and is now apart of the United States)

  • Hawaiian Islands were formed (65 billion years ago)