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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.
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 ...
Early in its history, the Hawaiian Kingdom was governed from coastal towns on the islands of Hawaiʻi and Maui . During the reign of Kamehameha III a capital was established in Honolulu. Kamehameha V decided to build a royal palace fitting the Hawaiian Kingdom's new-found prosperity and standing with the royals of other nations.
The title of the state constitution is The Constitution of the State of Hawaii. Article XV, Section 1 of the Constitution uses The State of Hawaii. [27] Diacritics were not used because the document, drafted in 1949, [28] predates the use of the ʻokina ʻ and the kahakō in modern Hawaiian orthography.
The history of Kānaka Maoli, like the history of Hawaii, is commonly broken into four major periods: the pre-unification period (before c. 1800) the unified monarchy and republic period (c. 1800 to 1898) the U.S. territorial period (1898 to 1959) the U.S. statehood period (1959 to present)
The Great Māhele ("to divide or portion") or just the Māhele was the Hawaiian land redistribution proposed by King Kamehameha III. The Māhele was one of the most important episodes of Hawaiian history, second only to the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. While intended to provide secure title to indigenous Hawaiians, it separated many of ...
Haleakalā is steeped in Native Hawaiian history and culture. “Native Hawaiians have lived on and mālama (cared for) the land for over 1,000 years,” according to the park, which notes that ...
The Native Hawaiian population was reduced to 20% of the total due to disease, inter-marriage and migration. [19] The diseases spread from outside Hawaii such as smallpox, cholera, influenza, and gonorrhea. Unlike Europeans, Hawaiians had no history with these diseases and their immune systems were unprepared to fight them. [20]