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Kalākaua Avenue is a street in Honolulu in the US federal state of Hawaii. The street travels across the tourist Centre of Waikīkī and belongs to the prospering streets of the United States. It demonstrates an architectural fusion of Hawaiian, Gothic, Asian, Spanish and Moorish architecture.
Native Hawaiians before the arrival of Captain Cook in 1770 used no coins; trade in their agricultural economy was based on barter. Early relations between Hawaiians and explorers were also based on barter, [1] with nails, beads, and small pieces of iron sometimes being used as money, [2] but as more systematic foreign trade began at the turn of the 19th century, coins of many lands came to ...
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 King David Kalakaua Building in Honolulu, Hawaii is a government building formerly known as the U.S. Post Office, Customhouse, and Courthouse. It was the official seat of administration in the Territory of Hawaii and state of Hawaii for the United States federal government .
During his 1874–75 state visit to the United States, he made history as the first reigning monarch to visit the United States. His trip to Washington, D.C. established two diplomatic benchmarks. One was the United States Congress holding their first joint meeting in the body's history, less formal than a joint session, specifically for an ...
Aboard the USS Charleston (C-2): (left to right) Colonel G. W. Macfarlane, King Kalakaua, and Colonel R. H. Baker. Kalākaua, the last king of Hawaii, died on January 20, 1891, while visiting in California. President Benjamin Harrison ordered the United States Navy and United States Army to conduct a state funeral in San Francisco. The funeral ...
The sundial donated by King Kalakaua. The area was originally the site of the first Christian Mission in the area known as Waiakea Mission Station-Hilo Station in 1825; [1] the missionaries had originally established their site on the seasonal flood plain of the Wailuku River, but they moved at the urging of Queen Kaʻahumanu. [2]
Illustration of Kalākaua's state dinner at the White House, meeting with President Ulysses S. Grant, from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. President Grant initiated the White House state dinner tradition when he hosted the December 22 dinner to honor Kalākaua. [54] Written invitations were sent out on December 19, for the 7–11 p.m. event.