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200 BCE
200-500 Polynesian arrival
polynesians arrived
(It is important since Hawaiians is the people of Polynesian descent. This became the "natives" of Hawai'i) -
1778 Cpt. Cook
captain cook claims he found hawaii
( It was important because Hawai'i then became mapped and known to the world.) -
Kamehameha : Unification of the 8 islands
kamehameha was a king who united all the islands in 1810 due to the surrender of kauai's king. (It was important because it was the first time all 8 islands were unified under one person.) -
1819 death of a great ruler
1819 kamehameha dies (important because he was a great ruler) -
1820 Honolulu
honolulu - becomes capital in 1820 (important since it is a capital ) -
Coffee - 1829 first coffee in hawai'i
Coffee - In 1829 first coffee plant was planted in kona ( important because of what we know as kona coffee) -
1853 - diseases
1853 - white man or foreign disease killed over 5000 natives ( This is important because this why there isn’t much hawaiians left over ) -
1835, 1854 marks sugar industry
1835 first sugar planted . first sugar mill 1854 - demand for workers brought immigrants ( It was important because of the sugar plantation and immigrants were brought) -
1874 - lunaliho , david kalakaua
1874 - lunaliho last of kamehameha's bloodline dies. ( It was the last reign of kamehamehas) 1874 - king david kalakaua came into power and the merrie monarch which later became a festival
in 1963(it was important since it was the last hawaiian king) -
1881 the beloved mac nuts arrived
1881 - mac nuts arrived ( symbol of hawaii from tourist) -
1898 hawai'i becomes a U.S. territory
1898 - hawaii became annexed into a U.S. territory , queen liliuokalani was overthrown( important because she was the last reigning monarch) -
1941 bombing of pearl harbor
1941 - pearl harbor was bombed by japan and japanese in US was sent to military or put in camps (important day in history for natives and japanese descent) -
2016 finally the sugar ends
2016 sugar ends - one of the last sugar farm closes (end of sugar cane the big industry)