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  2. History of Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    The history of Hawaii began with the discovery and settlement of the Hawaiian Islands by Polynesian people between 940 and 1200 AD. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first recorded and sustained contact with Europeans occurred by chance when British explorer James Cook sighted the islands in January 1778 during his third voyage of exploration .

  3. Ancient Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Hawaiʻi is the period of Hawaiian history preceding the establishment in 1795 of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi by Kamehameha the Great. Traditionally, researchers estimated the first settlement of the Hawaiian islands as having occurred sporadically between 400 and 1100 CE by Polynesian long-distance navigators from the Samoan , Marquesas ...

  4. Polynesian confederation - Wikipedia

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    Kingdoms of Hawaii and Tahiti that were supposed to confederate The Polynesian Confederation was a hypothetical confederation planned mainly by the king of Hawaii Kalākaua . The aim was to protect the Polynesian peoples from European and American imperialism since when the United Kingdom took over Fiji, there were only three independent ...

  5. List of Hawaiian monarchs - Wikipedia

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    The Hawaiian Kingdom 1874–1893, The Kalakaua Dynasty. Vol. 3. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-87022-433-1. OCLC 500374815. Osorio, Jon Kamakawiwoʻole (2002). Dismembering Lāhui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-2549-7. OCLC 48579247. Taylor, Albert Pierce (1922).

  6. Hawaiian Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The Hawaiian Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian: Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi), was a sovereign state located in the Hawaiian Islands which existed from 1795 to 1893. It was established during the late 18th century when Kamehameha I , then Aliʻi nui of Hawaii , conquered the islands of Oʻahu , Maui , Molokaʻi , and Lānaʻi , and ...

  7. Category:Timelines of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Upload file; Search. Search. Appearance. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Timeline of Native American art history; Timeline of Norse colonization of the ...

  8. Demographic history of Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    King Kamehameha I of Hawaii. Economic and demographic factors in the 18th to 19th centuries reshaped the Kingdom of Hawaii.With unfamiliar diseases such as bubonic plague, leprosy, yellow fever, declining fertility, high infant mortality, infanticide, the introduction of alcohol, and emigration off the islands or to larger cities for trade jobs, the Native Hawaiian population fell from around ...

  9. Ancient Hawaiian population - Wikipedia

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    What is known is that the first voyaging canoes that landed on Hawaiian shores during the discovery and settlement of Hawaii cannot have carried more than a hundred people, and perhaps even fewer. For the purposes of this article, "ancient" Hawaii is defined as the period beginning with the first arrival of human settlers, around AD 1100, and ...