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Hawaii

state of the United States of America

26 dated entries naming Hawaii, drawn from 24 separate years between 600 CE and 2025 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Hawai'i in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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6th century

  • 600Early settlers from the Marquesas build the Alakoko fishpond and taro fields on Kauai, Hawaii.source

15th century

  • 1420August 31 – A 9.4 M S -strong earthquake shakes Chile's Atacama Region, causing tsunamis in Chile, as well as Hawaii and Japan.source

18th century

  • 1728November 7 - James Cook killed by Hawaiian natives, cutting short his search for Northwest Passage. (died 1779)source
  • 1779February 14 – James Cook killed by Hawaiian natives, cutting short his search for Northwest Passage. (born 1728)source
  • 1795May 1 – Battle of Nu'uanu: Kamehameha I of the island of Hawaii defeats the Oahuans, solidifying his control of the major islands of the archipelago and officially founding the Kingdom of Hawaii.source

19th century

  • 1824May–July – King Kamehameha II of Hawaii and his Queen Consort Kamāmalu make a state visit to London, where they both die of measles before they can meet George IV.source
  • 1851June 2 – Castle & Cooke, the predecessor of Dole Food Company, is founded in Hawaii.source
  • 1852In Hawaii, sugar planters bring over the first Chinese laborers on 3- or 5-year contracts, giving them 3 dollars per month plus room and board for working a 12-hour day, 6 days a week.source
  • 1871August 9 – One of the few known major hurricanes to strike Hawaii causes significant damage on the islands of Hawaii and Maui.source
  • 1878September 30 – The ship Priscilla arrives in Hawaii from Funchal, Madeira, marking the beginning of the Portuguese immigration to the Hawaiian Islands (1878–1913).source
  • 1885February 9 – The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.source
  • 1891January 29 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii.source
  • 1893January 17 – Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii: Lorrin A. Thurston and the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety in Hawaii, with the intervention of the United States Marine Corps, overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani.source
  • 1893January 17 – The U.S. Marines intervene in Hawaii, resulting in overthrow of the government of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii.source

20th century

  • 1901February 20 – The Hawaii Territory Legislature convenes for the first time.source
  • 1916August 1 – Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is established in Hawaiisource
  • 1959March 18 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Hawaii Admission Act, granting statehood to Hawaii.source
  • 196022 May – The 1960 Valdivia earthquake occurs; with a magnitude of 9.5 MW, it is the largest recorded earthquake. Its epicenter was the city of Valdivia and mainly affected the area between Talca and Chiloé Archipelago. The earthquake was felt in different parts of the planet and produced a tidal wave which affected various locations throughout the Pacific Ocean such as Hawaii and Japan. It also caused the eruption of the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle, which covered the Puyehue Lake with ashes. Between 1,655 and 2,000 people died, and more than 2 million were affected by this disaster.source
  • 1968March 8 – The Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 sinks with all 98 crew members, about 90 nautical miles (104 miles or 167 km) southwest of Hawaii.source
  • 1969January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 28 and injures 314.source
  • 1991July 11 – A solar eclipse of record totality occurs in the Northern hemisphere and is witnessed by hundreds of millions of people in Hawaii, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.source
  • 1994August 20 – Tyke, a female African bush elephant, injures her groomer and kills her trainer at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. She then escapes the arena, and runs amok in the streets for half an hour, before police officers shoot her 86 times. She eventually collapses from her wounds and dies.source

21st century

  • 2018January 13 — At 8:08 AM HST, an inbound missile alert was accidentally issued via the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alert System over television, radio, and cellular networks in the U.S. state of Hawaii. 38 minutes later, the alert was confirmed as false by state officials, and blamed a miscommunicated drill at the HI-EMA.source
  • 2018May 3 – The 2018 lower Puna eruption causes destruction of structures and forces thousands of residents of Hawaii to evacuate as lava floods the land.source
  • 2023August 8 – 2023 Hawaii wildfires: 17,000 acres of land are burned and at least 101 people are killed, with two others missing, when a series of wildfires break out on the island of Maui in Hawaii.source
  • 2025July 30 – An Mw 8.8 earthquake strikes off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering tsunami warnings in Japan and Hawaii.source

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