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	History of Hawaii

lollipop10

9-19-2009 3:12 AM

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hawaii, history, big island

lollipop10 says:

A bit dry, but Hawaii actually has a very interesting history.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f6e0059b-1a4d-4101-8c19-b7210f750e19/B99C15C2-45B8-460C-97C7-B4FDC94ED96F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.lava.net/~poda/history.html" href="http://www.lava.net/~poda/history.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.lava.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lava.net/~poda/history.html"><DT>300 - 750 A.D.</DT><DD>Polynesians arrive by outrigger canoe from Tahiti
</DD><DT>1778</DT><DD>British explorer Captain James Cook discovers the Hawaiian Islands and names them Sandwich Islands after Britian's Earl of 
Sandwich.
</DD><DT>1779</DT><DD>Captain Cook is killed in a Big Island dispute at Kealakekua Bay, near Kona.
</DD><DT>1789</DT><DD>The first Chinese arrive after jumping off a trading ship.
</DD><DT>1810</DT><DD>King Kamehameha the Great unites all the Hawaiian islands into one kingdom.
</DD><DT>1813</DT><DD>The first pineapple plants are introduced from Spain.
</DD><DT>1816</DT><DD>First Hawaiian flag is sewn.
</DD><DT>1817</DT><DD>Coffee is first planted.
</DD><DT>1819</DT><DD>King Kamehameha the Great dies. Prince Liholiho ascends the throne as Kamehameha II (1819-1824). He also abandons the 
ancient taboo of eating with women.
</DD><DT>1820</DT><DD>First American Protestant missonaries arrive aboard the brig Thaddeus from New England.
</DD><DT>1825 - 1854</DT><DD>The reign of King Kamehameha III.
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