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It fell to around 142,000 in the 1820s based on a census conducted by American missionaries, 82,203 in the 1850 Hawaiian Kingdom census, 40,622 in the final Hawaiian Kingdom census of 1890, 39,504 in the sole census by the Republic of Hawaii in 1896, and 37,656 in the first census conducted by the United States in 1900. Thereafter the Native ...
The earliest Chinese arrived in the Hawaiian Islands in 1778, the same year as English explorer James Cook. [1] Today, some Chinese born on the islands can claim to be seventh generation. Although the Chinese are only the fifth most populous ethnic group in Hawaii, it is estimated that a third of Hawaii's entire population has some Chinese ...
Hawaii is the only state to have a tri-racial group as its largest multiracial group, one that includes white, Asian and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (22% of all mutiracial population). [176] The non-Hispanic White population numbers around 310,000—just over 20% of the population.
Hawaii was first discovered and settled by explorers from Tahiti or the Marquesas Islands. The date of the first settlements is a continuing debate. [ 23 ] Kirch 's textbooks on Hawaiian archeology date the first Polynesian settlements to about 300 C.E., although his more recent estimates are as late as 600. [ 23 ]
Chinese workers on Western trading ships settled in Hawaii starting in 1789. In 1820, the first American missionaries arrived to preach Christianity and teach the Hawaiians Western ways. [342] As of 2015, a large proportion of Hawaii's population have Asian ancestry – especially Filipino, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Many are descendants of ...
What is known is that the first voyaging canoes that landed on Hawaiian shores during the discovery and settlement of Hawaii cannot have carried more than a hundred people, and perhaps even fewer. For the purposes of this article, "ancient" Hawaii is defined as the period beginning with the first arrival of human settlers, around AD 1100, and ...
This is a list of Asian countries and dependencies by population in Asia, total projected population from the United Nations [1] and the latest official figure. Map [ edit ]
Hawaiian military officer, 1819 (by Jacques Arago) In 1782, the warrior chief who became Kamehameha the Great, started a military campaign to unite the islands that would last 15 years. He established the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1795 with the help of western weapons and advisors, such as John Young and Isaac Davis. [18]