History of Hawaii - Ten turning points

What are the 10 most important turning points in the history of Hawaii?

First, let's be clear: The "history" of Hawaii I'm talking about here began in 1778, with the Western. The Hawaiians recorded history through song, which births and deaths, battles and the victories he says. But none of it fell to Captain James Cook was written.

And this would be the number one most important turning point. When Cook impact on the fleet of islandsin the middle of the Pacific, has changed everything for the people of these islands.

For the first visit, people now know that other countries do not exist only in stories passed down from generation to generation, but in real time. The people who lived in this previously unknown distant countries were different in appearance, language and culture.

Oh, and the Hawaiians also learned that these people a whole new set of unknown diseases, had a hundred in the coming years sodevastate the Hawaiian people, their population was reduced to about a tenth of what it was when Cook arrived.

The next big turning point was the union of the islands of Oahu by Kamehameha, the ambitious head of Iceland who won Hawaii's Maui Kahekili armies for control of Maui, Molokai, Lanai, and finally in 1795. Kamehameha never conquered Kauai, but took control in agreement with the head of the island. Never again would any islandthe estate of a local chieftain, now all belong to a nation.

Turning point number three of the death of Kamehameha in 1819 would be. His strength and wisdom he had kept things a bit 'under control, such as Hawaii been able to deal with an influx of outsiders hungry for profits.

How often is the case, his two sons who followed him lacked the strength and wisdom, and leaned on the power of external influence. Soon he had them, who fought on the control of assets via Western longedthe lucrative market, sandalwood, and the hills were stripped of their generosity to pay for pieces of jewelry for the leaders.

Number four: The reversal of the Kapu system. Queen Kaahumanu Keopuolani and used the death of their mutual man, Kamehameha to this system is that the civil, social and religious people had ruled since the overthrow generations. It is said that this is the first time in history that a people rejected their religion.

Number Five: Themissionaries timing was impeccable. They arrived in Hawaii a few months after the overthrow of Kapu. They found a man disordered and depressed, suffering losses due to western diseases, the greed of their leaders to be caused, and the disappearance of their traditional religion. It 'was an open field for the missionaries, Hawaii and soon was a Christian country.

Number six: the Mahel, beginning in 1848 resulted in western-style private property ownership to the islands andThe process has many native Hawaiians, the landless in their own home.

Number seven: the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 terminated the business of whites nearly 2,000 years of control by people of Polynesian heritage, whose ancestors settled on the islands. The new owners, a Western-style republic, wait for the United States could persuade him to take up

Number eight: annexation. In 1898, those who had orchestrated and wanted to dropthe Republic were the United States. E 'was now the territory of Hawaii.

Number Nine: The 7th December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor brought the islands under the control of the military, suspended Hawaii, thousands of service members the continental United States and sent to the people of Hawaii to foreign countries. Nothing will ever be the same for these remote, rural island.

Number 10: the rule finally came in 1959. Now, these islands in the sea wereIntegrated into the most powerful nation in the world, a remote outpost of the military and the theme of romantic fantasy of the world.