key events

After James Cook lands on Kauai many trading and whaling ships in the pacific soon began in Hawaii.

The first missionary company arrives in Hawaii and attempted to convert Hawaiians to Christianity.

Allowed Hawaiian sugar to be shipped duty-free to the United States.

Planters held king Kalkaua at gunpoint so he would sign the Bayonet constitution.

King Kalkaua died and his and his sister Liliuokalani becomes queen. She proposed a new constitution that would return power to the monarchy. Planters revolted and John L. Stevens, U.S minister of Hawaii, called 150 marines ashore to support the revolt, and it succeeded without a battle.