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After days of visitors, which included world dignitaries and representatives of two different Masonic lodges, Kalākaua and friends attended a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida. He was given a tour of the headquarters of Le Figaro, and visited the Société de géographie. On August 15, the royal group, which now included Hoffnung ...
The purpose of the 281-day trip was to encourage the importation of contract labor for plantations. Kalākaua set a world record as the first monarch to travel around the world. [60] He appointed his sister and heir-apparent Liliuokalani to act as Regent during his absence. [61] Setting sail on January 20, they visited California before sailing ...
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. In 1881, Kalākaua embarked on a world tour to negotiate with friendly nations for contract labor for Hawaii's plantations. Exported products for 1890, the last full year of his reign, amounted to ...
Shortly thereafter, he was invited to participate in Kalākaua's 1881 world tour, an endeavor to encourage plantation labor immigration to Hawaii. [14] Before sailing, Kalākaua appointed him Royal Commissioner of Immigration to authorize him to negotiate with foreign governments. [15]
In this capacity, Judd traveled with Kalākaua on his 1881 world tour along with their childhood classmate Armstrong and Colonel George W. Macfarlane, the king's aide-de-camp. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Judd's dark complexion and physical resemblance to Kalākaua led a few people, including Qing politician Li Hongzhang to mistake him for a Native Hawaiian ...
With the right conditions—meaning dry and calm—Kessler could break his own mark of 3 minutes, 56.1 seconds set at the inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships Riga 23 in Latvia on ...
English: King Kalakaua and his aides Charles H. Judd and George W. MacFarlane and his cook Robert von Oelhoffen, during the king's trip around the world. Date 1881
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