A Guide to Hawaiian Monarchs

Kamehameha I, generally known as Kamehameha the Nice, was a warrior chief who based the Kingdom of Hawaii, unifying the Hawaiian islands.

Start title: Paiea

Dominated from: 1782 – 1819 (unification of all of the islands occurred in 1810)

Mother and father: Keōua and Kekuʻiapoiwa II

Enjoyable truth: In keeping with the Nationwide Park Service, “Due to prognostications at his start and threats from warring clans, Kamehameha was taken away and hidden instantly after his start.”

The primary-born son of Kamehameha I and his highest-ranking spouse inherited the throne upon his father’s dying, however his father’s favourite spouse Kaʻahumanu dominated alongside him as Kuhina Nui. (Kamehameha I had someplace round 30 wives, however Kaʻahumanu was his favourite. Kamehameha II had 5 wives.) In 1824, on a go to to England together with his favourite spouse, Queen Kamāmalu, she caught measles and died, and he died six days later.

Start title: Liholiho

Dominated from: 1819 – 1824

Kuhina Nui: Kaʻahumanu I

Mother and father: Kamehameha I and Keōpūolani

Enjoyable truth: He resisted changing to Christianity as a result of he did not wish to quit 4 of his 5 wives, or cease consuming rum.

Kamehameha III took over after his brother’s dying, and he turned the longest reigning monarch in Hawaiian historical past. Underneath his reign, Hawaii turned a constitutional monarchy.

Start title: Alexander ‘Lolani Liholiho

Dominated from: 1825 – 1854

Kuhina Nui(s): Kaʻahumanu I, Kaʻahumanu II, Kaʻahumanu III, and Keoni Ana

Mother and father: Kamehameha I and Keōpūolani

Enjoyable truth: His full title was lengthened after he ascended to the throne: Keaweaweʻula Kīwalaʻō Kauikeaouli Kaleiopapa Kalani Waiakua Kalanikau Iokikilo Kīwalaʻō i ke kapu Kamehameha

Pictured: Kamehameha III (proper), his spouse, Queen Kalama (left), and Kamehameha IV (middle).

Kamehameha IV’s uncle, Kamehameha III, adopted him and declared him inheritor to the throne when he was only a toddler. He ascended to the throne when he was 20 years outdated, and a 12 months later, married Queen Emma, the granddaughter of John Younger, a British navy advisor to Kamehameha I. That they had a son, Prince Albert Kamehameha, who died at age 4, doubtless of appendicitis.

When Kamehameha IV died at age 29 of bronchial asthma, he had no youngsters, and his older brother succeed him.

Start title: Alexander ‘Lolani Liholiho

Reign: 1855 – 1863

Kuhina Nui(s): Keoni Ana and Kaʻahumanu IV

Mother and father: Kekūanāoʻa and Kīnaʻu (daughter of Kamehameha I)

Enjoyable truth: He established the Church of Hawaii, impressed by the Church of England.

The older brother of Kamehameha IV, Kamehameha V ascended to the throne at age 33. He named his sister, Crown Princess Victoria Kamāmalu (also called Kaʻahumanu IV—she was Kuhina Nui throughout his reign and his brother’s proper) inheritor obvious to the throne, however she died childless in 1866. When he died 6 years after she did, he had not named a inheritor.

Kamehameha V was the final monarch from the Home of Kamehameha.

Start title: Lot Kapuāiwa

Reign: 1863 – 1872

Kuhina Nui(s): Kaʻahumanu IV and his dad, Kekūanāoʻa

Mother and father: Kekūanāoʻa and Kīnaʻu (daughter of Kamehameha I)

Enjoyable truth: Mark Twain visited Hawaii throughout his reign, and wrote, “He was a sensible sovereign; he had seen one thing of the world; he was educated & achieved, & he tried onerous to do effectively by his folks, & succeeded. There was no trivial royal nonsense about him; He dressed plainly, poked about Honolulu, night time or day, on his outdated horse, unattended; he was well-liked, tremendously revered, and even beloved.”

As Kamehameha V had no inheritor when he died, his successor was elected by the Hawaiian legislature, who chosen a brand new monarch from the pool of dwelling Hawaiian royals. William Charles Lunalilo, a Kamehameha by his mom, received the vote, turning into the primary Hawaiian monarch to be elected by the legislature.

Since he was the primary popularly elected king, he was generally known as “the Individuals’s King.” His reign was brief, nevertheless; he died of tuberculosis a little bit over a 12 months after taking the throne.

Start title: William Charles Lunalilo

Reign: 1873 – 1874

Mother and father: Charles Kanaina and Kekāuluohi (niece and step-daughterof Kamehameha I)

Enjoyable Reality: He composed Hawaii’s first nationwide anthem, “E Ola Ke Aliʻi Ke Akua”

After the dying of Lunalilo, Kalākaua was elected to the throne, defeating Kamehameha IV’s widow Queen Emma in a public vote. He was childless, and named his inheritor obvious his brother, William Pitt Leleiohoku. However when William died in 1877, he made his sister Lydia inheritor obvious. Kalākaua then went on to undergo a stroke and die whereas on a visit to California in 1891.

Start title: Kalākaua

Reign: 1874 – 1891

Mother and father: Caesar Kapaʻakea and Analea Keohokālole

Enjoyable truth: He circumnavigated the globe in 1881 with two of his childhood associates.

The final monarch of Hawaii, Lili’uokalani ascended to the throne after the dying of her brother. She was later overthrown in a coup d’état and compelled to abdicate.

In her autobiography Hawaiʻi’s Story by Hawaiʻi’s Queen, she wrote of her abdication in 1898, “For myself, I’d have chosen dying moderately than to have signed it; but it surely was represented to me that by my signing this paper all of the individuals who had been arrested, all my folks now in hassle by purpose of their love and loyalty in the direction of me, could be instantly launched. Consider my place, – sick, a lone lady in jail, scarcely realizing who was my buddy, or who listened to my phrases solely to betray me, with out authorized recommendation or pleasant counsel, and the stream of blood able to move except it was stayed by my pen.”

Start title: Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Kamakaʻeha

Reign: 1891 – 1893

Mother and father: Caesar Kapaʻakea and Analea Keohokālole

Enjoyable truth: She attended the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria as a consultant of her brother.