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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Honolulu, on Oahu, in the U.S. state of Hawaii This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The history of Hawaii is the story of human settlements in the Hawaiian Islands beginning with their discovery and settlement 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 ...
Alapainui's Invasion of Oahu. (around 1738) Third Oahuan Revolution. (around 1773) Conflicts under Kahahana. (18th century) some battle on the Big Island. (18th century) Second Mauian Invasion of Oahu. (around late 1782 or early 1783) Battle of Seven Warriors (around 1782) Battle of Kaheiki Stream (January 1783) The Waipi‘o-Kimopo (1783/4/5)
Done at Honolulu, Oahu, this 25th day of February, 1843. Kamehameha III Kekauluohi" [49] Gerrit P. Judd, a missionary who had become the minister of finance for the Kingdom, secretly arranged for J.F.B. Marshall to be sent to the United States, France and Britain, to protest Paulet's actions. [50]
The Island Plate: 150 Years of Recipes and Food Lore from the Honolulu Advertiser. Waipahu, Hawaiʻi: Island Heritage Publishing. Finney, Ben R. (1994). Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey Through Polynesia. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-08002-5. Kane, Herb Kawainui (1998). Ancient Hawaii. Kawainui Press. ISBN 0-943357-03-9.
What’s next for Oahu’s beaches? It will take four feet of sea level rise to drown nearly half of Waikiki, and researchers plan on one foot of sea level rise by 2050 and four to six feet by 2100.
The overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom was a coup d'état against Queen Liliʻuokalani that took place on January 17, 1893, on the island of Oahu, and was led by the Committee of Safety, composed of seven foreign residents (five Americans, one Scotsman, and one German [5]) and six Hawaiian Kingdom subjects of American descent in Honolulu.
Around the year 1792 (the exact date is unknown; the landing could have been as late as February 1795), Captain William Brown, an English merchant, landed in the harbor of Honolulu. As a maritime fur trader and gun seller, he made several voyages before from the Pacific Northwest coast to the Hawaiian islands in command of the Butterworth ...