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Kalākaua and party arrived at Waltham by sleigh on January 8, to visit the Waltham Watch Company. Escorted through the factory by company executives, the king expressed interest in the details of how watches were manufactured. [77] Following a visit to an art gallery in Watertown, they proceeded to Newton, boarding a Boston-bound train. [78]
As a followup to goodwill generated by Kalākaua's visit, Curtis P. Iaukea was dispatched to India and England in later years to explore the possibility of Indian immigration for sugar plantation labor. [129] In 1904, 23 years after the voyage, Armstrong published Around the World with a King, his daily journal of the trip. [130]
Kalākaua became the first reigning monarch to visit America. The state dinner in his honor hosted by President Ulysses S. Grant was the first White House state dinner ever held. [52] Many in the Hawaiʻi business community were willing to cede Pearl Harbor to the United States in exchange for the treaty, but Kalākaua was opposed to the idea.
February 12, 1874: King Kalākaua takes the throne. Twenty years after Kamehameha III’s reign ended in 1854, King Kalākaua was elected to the throne in 1874. He would become the last king of ...
From November 1874 to February 1875, King Kalākaua made a state visit to the United States. This was the first time that any foreign head of state or head of government had visited the United States. [3] [4] Kalākaua visited the United States again in 1881 as part of his world tour. [5]
Spoilers below. The White Lotus Thailand has a bald white man problem. No, really. As a scene in the season 3 premiere comically reveals, there are actually a bunch of them at the resort. Chloe ...
Spreckels became one of Kalākaua's close associates, and by extension, tied in with the king's cabinet minister Walter Murray Gibson. [13] Over the term of Kalākaua's reign, the treaty had a major effect on the kingdom's income. In 1874, Hawaii exported $1,839,620.27 in products.
A contentious history leave the FAA without a chief at a difficult time