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The history of Hawaii is the story of human settlements in the Hawaiian Islands. Polynesians arrived sometime between 1000 and 1200 AD. Kamehameha I, the ruler of the island of Hawaii, conquered and unified the islands for the first time, establishing the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1795.
Mar 2, 2023 · The first Protestant Christian missionaries arrived in Hawaiʻi in March of 1820 after setting sail from Massachusetts. But the effort to bring a mission to the islands started years prior from a...
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Nov 6, 2007 · In 1820, the first Christian missionaries arrived. Shortly afterward, Western traders and whalers came to the islands, bringing with them diseases that devastated the native Hawaiian...
Apr 15, 2024 · 1876 - 1900 : important events and developments. Sources. First inhabitants. The first people to live in the place now known as Christchurch were moa hunters, who probably arrived there as early as AD 1000. The hunters cleared large areas of mataī and tōtara forest by fire and by about 1450 the moa had been killed off.
Early history. The first inhabitants of Hawaii may have reached the islands as early as 300 ce from the Marquesas Islands. Contact with and settlement by Tahitians began in the 9th century ce.
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, and Tahiti islands within what is now French Polynesia. [1] .
Jun 8, 2021 · Coming from a tradition of voyaging expertise and canoe making, Polynesians from the area now known as the Marquesas Islands were the first humans to visit and settle the Hawaiian Islands between 1000- 1200 AD.
