Title: Hawaiian Kingdom - Wikipedia
Headings: Hawaiian Kingdom
Hawaiian Kingdom
Contents
Origins
Kamehameha dynasty (1795–1874)
Economic, social, and cultural transformation
Military
French Incident (1839)
Paulet Affair (1843)
French invasion (1849)
Foreign relations
Anglo-Franco Proclamation
Princes and chiefs who were eligible to be rulers
Succession crisis and monarchial elections
Kalākaua dynasty
Bayonet Constitution
Liliʻuokalani's Constitution
Overthrow
1895 rebellion
Territorial extent
Royal estates
Palaces and royal grounds
See also
References
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

Content: Two major dynastic families ruled the kingdom: the House of Kamehameha and the House of Kalākaua . The kingdom won recognition from major European powers. The United States became its chief trading partner and watched over it to prevent some other power (such as Britain or Japan) from threatening to seize control. Hawaiʻi was forced to adopt a new constitution in 1887 when King Kalākaua was threatened with violence by the Honolulu Rifles, an anti-monarchist militia, to sign it. Queen Liliʻuokalani, who succeeded Kalākaua in 1891, tried to abrogate the 1887 constitution and promulgate a new constitution but was overthrown in 1893, largely at the hands of the Committee of Safety, a group of residents consisting of Hawaiian subjects and foreign nationals of American, British, and German descent, many of whom had been educated in the US, had lived there for a time, and identified strongly as American. Hawaiʻi became a republic until the US annexed it by the Newlands Resolution, a joint resolution, which was passed on July 4, 1898 by the US Congress and created the Territory of Hawaii. United States Public Law 103-150 adopted in 1993, (informally known as the Apology Resolution ), acknowledged that "the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii occurred with the active participation of agents and citizens of the United States" and also "that the Native Hawaiian people never directly relinquished to the United States their claims to their inherent sovereignty as a people over their national lands, either through the Kingdom of Hawaii or through a plebiscite or referendum." Contents
1 Origins
1.1 Kamehameha dynasty (1795–1874)
2 Economic, social, and cultural transformation
3 Military
4 French Incident (1839)
5 Paulet Affair (1843)
6 French invasion (1849)
7 Foreign relations
7.1 Anglo-Franco Proclamation
8 Princes and chiefs who were eligible to be rulers
9 Succession crisis and monarchial elections
10 Kalākaua dynasty
10.1 Bayonet Constitution
10.2 Liliʻuokalani's Constitution
10.3 Overthrow
10.4 1895 rebellion
11 Territorial extent
12 Royal estates
12.1 Palaces and royal grounds
13 See also
14 References
15 Bibliography
16 Further reading
17 External links
Origins
In ancient Hawaiʻi, society was divided into multiple classes. At the top of the class system was the aliʻi class with each island ruled by a separate aliʻi nui.