Hawaii

Hawaiian history

Brief history of Hawaii summarized A look at Hawaii’s brief history in a nutshell. The Hawaiian Principles The first humans arrived in Hawaii from the Marquesas Islands around 300 AD. The people of Tahiti arrived in Hawaii after 1100 AD. Then, in 1778, Captain Cook set sail for Hawaii. Cook was assassinated in Hawaii the following year. Then, in 1786, a Frenchman named La Perouse set sail for Hawaii. The Europeans introduced diseases to which the natives had no resistance, and their numbers dropped dramatically in the following decades. Meanwhile, in 1810 a chief named Kamehameha united the Hawaiian Islands…