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A modern photograph of the Willamette Valley, ceded to the United States in the 1855 Kalapuya Treaty. The Treaty with the Kalapuya, etc., also known as the Kalapuya Treaty or the Treaty of Dayton, was an 1855 treaty between the United States and the bands of the Kalapuya tribe, the Molala tribe, the Clackamas, and several others in the Oregon Territory.
German Empire, 1879–80 (Treaty) [13] Portugal, May 5, 1882 (Provisional Convention) [ 14 ] United States of America, December 6, 1884 (Supplementary Convention) [ 15 ]
The first United States Minister to Hawaii (diplomatic rank roughly equivalent to a modern Ambassador) was David L. Gregg, who became minister to Hawaii in 1853. [1] A commercial agent (called Consul starting in 1844) had served in the islands since 1820. [2] From November 1874 to February 1875, King Kalākaua made a state visit to the United ...
1875 — The Reciprocity Treaty between the Kingdom of Hawaii and the US. While king, Kalākaua negotiated the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875, which allowed sugar and other products to be exported to ...
From 1874 through 1875, Kalākaua made a state visit to Washington DC to gather support for a new treaty. [142] [143] Congress agreed to the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 for seven years in exchange for Ford Island (Pearl Harbor). [144] [145] After the treaty, sugar production expanded from 12,000 acres to 125,000 acres in 1891. [146]
Kalākaua (David Laʻamea Kamanakapuʻu Māhinulani Nālaʻiaʻehuokalani Lumialani Kalākaua; [2] November 16, 1836 – January 20, 1891), was the last king and penultimate monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, reigning from February 12, 1874, until his death in 1891.
The Paulet affair, also known as British Hawaii, was the unofficial five-month 1843 occupation of the Hawaiian Islands by British naval officer Captain Lord George Paulet, of HMS Carysfort. It was ended by the arrival of American warships sent to defend Hawaii's independence.
Forms a Catholic alliance between the French Catholic League and Habsburg Spain against Protestant forces such as Elizabeth I of England. 1585 Treaty of Nemours: Revokes previous concessions made to the Huguenots; instigates the War of the Three Henries. Treaty of Nonsuch: England assists Dutch in the Eighty Years' War. 1586 Treaty of Berwick