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  Kamehameha II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kamehameha II Kamehameha II succeeded the throne of the Kingdom of Hawai‘i upon the death of his father, Kamehameha I. He and his Queen Consort died in London from the measles.
Kamehameha II, King of Hawaii (1797 - 1824) was the second king of the Kingdom of Hawai‘i.
Liholiho succeeded to the throne upon Kamehameha I's death in May 1819, but among other conditions, he was forced to take on merely a ceremonial role; administrative power was to be vested in Ka‘ahumanu, his father's favorite wife, who was given the title of kuhina nui, the rough equivalent of a prime minister.
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 Hawaii - The Story of Kamehameha              
Kamehameha grew up to be a young man remarkable for his size and strength, and for his courage as a fighter in his uncle's wars.
Kamehameha himself was an avid fisherman and scheduled affairs of state in his later years around the running of his favourite fish.
Kamehameha's flesh was removed from his bones and laid to rest in the sea.
www.janesoceania.com /hawaii_kamehameha   (2924 words)

  
 Kamehameha I Summary
Kamehameha, also known as Kamehameha I and Kamehameha the Great (circa 1758 – 1819), unified the Hawaiian Islands in battle and formally established the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi in 1810.
Kamehameha is most noted for his vehement defense of traditional Hawaiian values and the kapu system of law and religion.
Kamehameha may or may not have known that his rival, Kalanikupule, also possessed firearms, and was planning a move against Kamehameha when the aliʻi nui of Hawaiʻi invaded the western islands.
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 Significant Dates in the History of Hawaii
Queen Ka‘ahumanu, wife of Kamehameha I and queen regent for Kamehameha II and Kamehameha III, is baptized December 4, along with her cousin Kalanimōkū, his infant son Leleiōhoku (a grandson of Kamehameha I), her sister Pi‘ia, Deborah Kapule, and Gideon La‘anui.
Kamehameha II, in his restoration day speech, recites a phrase that becomes Hawaii's national motto: Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono ("The Life of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness").
Alexander Liholiho, Kamehameha IV, dies of asthma at age twenty-nine on November 30 and is succeeded by Lot Kamehameha, his older brother, who becomes Kamehameha V. Kamehameha V on August 20 decrees a new constitution that is meant to strengthen his rule.
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 Kamehmeha
Kamehameha was born in 1753 in Kohala on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Kamehameha V felt that the constitution gave too much power to the people and he wanted most of it back.
Kamehameha V was less worried about rights for the people because he felt that as king, he should know what is best for his people.
library.thinkquest.org /J0111103/bigisland/kamehameha.html   (1051 words)

  
 Untitled Document
In 1810, King Kamehameha I united the islands, through a series of battles, the last of which was a climactic stand on the edge of the Pali cliffs in the Nu`uanu valley of O`ahu.
Kamehameha, aided throughout his campaign with European firearms as well as traditional Hawaiian armament, drove the defenders over the cliffs to achieve their victory.
Kamehameha IV’s rule saw the explosion of the immigrant worker population from Asia, brought upon by the decreasing Hawaiian population which was largely killed off by diseases to which they had no resistance.
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 hawaii   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Kamehameha means "the lonely one." As an adult, Kamehameha became chief of the northern half of the island of Hawaii.
Kamehameha IV and Kamehameha V Kamehameha III died in December 1854 and was succeeded by his nephew (and adopted son) Alexander, who reigned under the name Kamehameha IV.
Abner was an advisor of Kamehameha III and Konia was descended from Kamehameha I. At the age of four she entered the Royal School, originally called the Chief's Children's School, where she learned to speak English fluently.
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 The Four Kamehamehas (1869)
When Captain Cook came to the country, Kamehameha was about twenty-one years old,--a strong, active young man, with more remarkable mental powers than were (at least at that time) commonly to be found among the barbarous islanders of the Pacific.
Kamehameha was succeeded by his son Lilolého, called Kamehameha II.
The first Kamehameha was a man of remarkable mental powers, but he was a savage barbarian; the fourth was a man of no remarkable force of character, but a true Christian gentleman.
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 Kamehameha, III Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Kamehameha III, son of Kamehameha I, was born at Keauhou, Hawaii.
She had become a devout Protestant, and after her death Kamehameha III was torn between Hawaiian ways and the ways of the Protestant missionaries from New England.
Kamehameha III proclaimed religious tolerance, and this became a fact long before the end of his reign.
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 Aloha-Hawaii.com: Liholiho - Kamehameha II
The son of Kamehameha the Great and Keopuolani, the king’s highest-ranking wife, Liholiho was born in November 1797 in Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Kamehameha the Great died in 1819, and Liholiho, per tradition, headed to the mountains for a period of mourning.
Although the reign of Kamehameha II lasted only five years, it was an eventful period that helped shape the future of the Hawaiian kingdom.
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 Hawaiian history - history of Hawaii from 300AD to 1900AD
In 1792 Kamehameha I conquered Maui, Lanai, Molokai and Oahu.
Kamehameha II formed a dual rulership with his wife, Kamamalu, that lasted 5 years.
Kamehameha II sailed to England and died of measles with his queen on July 14, 1824.
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 My Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Kamehameha III was the last son of Kamehame the Great, ascended the throne of Hawaii when he was ten years old, on death of older brother, Liholiho (Kamehameha II) in London.
She was divorced from Liholiho Kamehameha II in 1824 in Hawaii.
She was married to Liholiho Kamehameha II in Hawaii.
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 Spirit of Aloha - Aloha Airlines' in-flight magazine with information on Hawaii vacations, Hawaiian island maps and the ...
Her paternal grandfather was Kame'eiamoku, one of Kamehameha's four war generals and a respected advisor; her maternal grandfather was the great Kahekili, high chief of Maui and later of O'ahu.
As a young woman in the court of Kamehameha I, Liliha was noted for her loyalty, strength of character and beauty.
Kamehameha was distraught over the loss of his wife; six days later he died as well, in Liliha's arms.
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 Princess Victoria Kaiulani
The short-lived Kalakaua dynasty came to power when the almight Kamehameha dynasty ended with King Kamehameha V. The Kamehameha dynasty had risen in the late 1700's when a young boy was born under a bright star that foretold a fate that said anyone born under the star would become a great conqueror.
Kamehameha also saw to it that the kapu, taboo, laws of the ancient Hawai'ians be banned.
After Kamehameha died in 1819, his son, Liholiho ascended to the throne as King Kamehameha II, though undisputably his mother, Queen Kaahumanu, was the true power on the Hawai'ian throne.
kaiulani.freeservers.com   (2355 words)

  
 Alii of Hawaii   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Kamehameha the II was the son of king Kamehameha the I. King Kamehameha II was born 1797.
King Kamehameha the II got rid of a rule that said men and women could not sit together when he had decided to sit with Kaahumanu.
King Kamehameha gave the missionaries who had moved to Hawaii a chance after he found out about their religion..
library.thinkquest.org /J0110442/kingk2.html   (105 words)

  
 Law Enforcement in Pre-Contact-Hawaii
The great chief Kamehameha I, had a personal experience in the year 1782 which resulted in the enactment of a law that was to become one of the most well-known of all his laws.
Kamehameha II (Liholiho) is credited with overthrowing the kapu system in 1819.
Kamehameha II then decreed that all the temples should be abolished throughout the kingdom.
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 History of Hawaii
Having encouraged a warlike spirit in his people and having introduced firearms, Kamehameha attacked and overcame the chiefs of the other kingdoms one after another, until (in 1795) he became undisputed master of the whole group.
Kamehameha died in 1819, and was succeeded by his son, Lilohilo, or Kamehameha II., a mild and well disposed prince, but destitute of his father's energy.
Lunalilo, a grandson of Kamehameha I., was king for two years, and in 1874, backed by American influence, Kalakaua was elected his successor, in preference to Queen Emma, a member of the Anglican Church and the candidate of the pro-British party.
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 Office of Communications for the Reinstated Hawaiian Government
Kamehameha unites all the islands, with the exception of Kaua'i, under his rule with a victory over the armies of the island of O'ahu.
Kamehameha finally unites all the Hawaiian Islands by forcing Kaumuali'i, the chief of Kaua'i, to cede his island to the new nation.
Kamehameha II and his wife Kamamalu are struck ill and die during an official state visit to London.
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 Royalty.nu - The History of Hawaii - Hawaiian Royalty
Kamehameha III died in December 1854 and was succeeded by his nephew (and adopted son) Alexander, who reigned under the name Kamehameha IV.
Kamehameha: The Warrior King of Hawai'i by Susan Morrison, illustrated by Karen Kiefer.
Kamehameha III: Kauikeaouli by Jean I. Cachola and Robin Yoko Burningham.
www.royalty.nu /America/Hawaii.html   (3311 words)

  
 458-459 - TheMorganReport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Such a sentiment had become well defined in the mind of Kamehameha before his death, and may be regarded as the seed germ of the system of land tenures which afterwards developed.
When, after the death of Kamehameha I, his son, Liholiho, came to the throne as Kamehameha II, the administration of the Government was shared with him by Kaahumanu, the Kuhina Nui,* one of Kamehameha's widows, and a woman of great force of character.
The distribution of lands therefore by Kamehameha I remained for the most part as a permanent settlement of the landed interests of the Kingdom, to be afterwards modified in favor of the common people and the Government, but never ignored.
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 Kamehameha Schools - Charles Reed Bishop
Kamehameha I (sometimes called the Great) founded this dynasty by uniting the eight major islands of the Hawaiian Chain under his rule in 1810.
Raised in the courts of Alapa`inui, and later, Kalani`opu`u, the ali`i nui (ruling chiefs) of the island of Hawai`i, Kamehameha became a skilled and fierce warrior and intelligent leader.
Kamehameha I died in 1819 and was buried secretly by trusted companions as befits a high chief, and was greatly mourned by his people.
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 King Kamehameha
Kamehameha was victorious.Kamehameha also won wars on the other Hawaiian islands, and by 1810, he had united all of the islands.
Kamehameha was a strong and able king, but his successors were not as strong as him and ultimately were not able to resist European efforts to control the islands.
Kamehameha II, the second king in the Kamehameha line, gave much of the responsibility for ruling Hawaii to one of his father's wives, Kaahumanu.
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 The Monarchy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
In league with the King's mother, Keopuolani, she convinced Kamehameha II to sit down and eat with the women in violation of one of ancient Hawaii's most serious prohibitions.
During Kamehameha IV's reign and that of his successor, there was a growing agitation on the part of the sugar planters for annexation to the United States to secure a dependable market for their product.
Brother to Kamehameha IV, Lot Kamehameha was the final direct descendant of Kamehameha the Great to sit on Hawaii's throne and the last Hawaiian monarch to reign in the old style.
www.hawaiian-roots.com /monarchy.htm   (1858 words)

  
 My Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
She was married to Keawenui (Iolani) Kamehameha IV (Alexander Liholiho) on 19 Jun 1856 in Honolulu, HI.
Kamehameha I (photo) was born in Feb 1753 in Kohala, Hawaii.
Kaikeaouli (Kaleiopapa) Kamehameha III (photo) was born on 17 Mar 1813 in Keauhou, Kona, Hawaii.
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 Maui Historical Timeline by Maui Real Estate .com
Kamehameha becomes known as King Kamehameha I, and he rules the unified Kingdom of Hawaii with an iron hand.
Kamehameha I died, and his oldest son, Liholiho, rules briefly as Kamehameha II, with Kaahumanu, Kamehameha I's favorite wife, as co-executive.
Kamehameha III and the legislature move Hawaii's seat of government from Lahaina, on Maui, to Honolulu, on Oahu.
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 Dragon Ball Goku
Kamehameha I (Kamehameha the Great), c.1738-1819, was king of the island of Hawaii after 1790.
His son, Kamehameha II, 1797-1824, succeeded to the throne in 1819.
His son, Kamehameha IV, 1834-63, attempted to resist American influence during his reign (1854-63) but without much success.
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 Our Ali'i Heritage
He was the father of Kamehameha II (Liholiho 'Iolani) and Kamehameha III (Kauikeaouli), and grandfather of Kamehameha IV (Alexander Liholiho) and Kamehameha V (Lot Kapuaiwa).
Ka'ahumanu was a powerful chiefess born in Hana, on Maui, and she was the favored wife of Kamehameha I. She served as Kuhina Nui (a position which shared the powers of the king) and co-ruler with Kamehameha II.
David Kalakaua (1836-1891) was a descendent of ali'i (nobles) of Hawai'i Island, and candidate for the crown at the death of Kamehameha V in 1872.
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