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Hon. David Kalakaua, who at present holds the office of King's Chamberlain, is a man of fine presence, is an educated gentleman and a man of good abilities. He is approaching forty, I should judge—is thirty-five, at any rate. He is conservative, politic and calculating, makes little display, and does not talk much in the Legislature.
King Kalākaua, the last king of Hawaii, sailed for California aboard the USS Charleston on November 25, 1890. Accompanying him were his friends George W. Macfarlane and Robert Hoapili Baker . The account given by his sister and heir-apparent Liliuokalani is that he told her on November 22 that he intended to travel to Washington, D.C. to ...
The 1887 Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom was a legal document prepared by anti-monarchists to strip the absolute Hawaiian monarchy of much of its authority, initiating a transfer of power to a coalition of American, European and native Hawaiian people.
King Kalākaua. In 1887, a group of cabinet officials and advisors to King Kalākaua and an armed militia forced the king to promulgate what is known by its critics as the "Bayonet Constitution". The impetus behind the imposition of the 1887 constitution was the frustration amongst members of the Reform Party (also known as the Missionary Party ...
While king, Kalākaua negotiated the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875, which allowed sugar and other products to be exported to the U.S. duty-free. His kingdom saw tons of growth as a result.
The following morning, Severance and the king's entourage sat for a portrait at the Bradley and Rulofson photograph gallery. [39] Celso Caesar Moreno, who would later serve in the king's cabinet, [40] presented himself as owner of three telegraph cable charter companies, regaling Kalākaua with his tales of global adventures. [41]
Collage showing King Kalākaua and family. Left to right from top: Queen Kapiʻolani , King Kalākaua , Princess Likelike , Queen Liliʻuokalani , Princess Kaʻiulani , and Prince Leleiohoku . The House of Kalākaua , or Kalākaua Dynasty , also known as the Keawe-a-Heulu line , was the reigning family of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi under King ...
Mother Marianne Cope and other Sisters of St. Francis were serving in Syracuse, N.Y., when Cope answered a plea for nuns from King Kalakaua and Queen Kapiolani in 1883 to care for Hawaii's women ...