Marked Honolulu

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Hawaiian Kingdom

Kamehameha I united the Hawaiian islands by 1810. The kingdom had treaties with world powers and one of the most literate peoples on Earth, until American businessmen overthrew Queen Liliʻuokalani in 1893 and the United States annexed the islands in 1898.

Place
Honolulu · ʻIolani Palace · KonaOceania, The Americas
Laid out as
A dynastyA line of rulers, one after another, and what each reign changed.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IKamehameha unites the islands
  2. IIKa’ahumanu breaks the kapu
  3. IIIMissionaries and a written language
  4. IVSugar and land
  5. VThe overthrow of 1893
  6. VIThe petitions against annexation

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Kamehameha I
  • Ka’ahumanu
  • Kalākaua
  • Lili’uokalani

Objects

  • The Kū’ē petitions
  • Feather cloaks
  • The Kumulipo chant

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1795 to 1898. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?