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The history of Hawaii is the story of human settlements in the Hawaiian Islands. Polynesians arrived sometime between 940 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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Jun 8, 2021 · Settling the Islands. 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.
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...
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.
Captain James Cook made the first known European contact with ancient Hawaiians in 1778. He was followed by many other Europeans and Americans. Voyage to the Hawaiian islands. Map showing the migration of the Austronesians. Priests traveling across Kealakekua Bay for first contact rituals.
A Century of Aloha. Eric-Jon K. Marlowe and Clinton D. Christensen. Go to Book. Previous. Next. Show Citation. Download as PDF. Establishing the Church in Hawaiʻi. Hawaiian Islands, 1919. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The Hawaiian Islands make up one of the most isolated archipelagos on the earth.
