king kamehameha

     

The only public state holiday in the U.S. honoring a monarch is one honoring this ruler

Trivia about king kamehameha

  • Hawaii's state seal features a shield flanked by the goddess of liberty & this king
  • "(Hi, I'm Brook Lee, Miss U.S.A.) I represented Hawaii in the Miss U.S.A. Pageant, so I know that this king appears on Hawaii''s state seal"
  • This Hawaiian king whose name means "the very lonely one" conquered Maui in 1790
  • This king was "The Napoleon of the Pacific"
  • The ruins of Puukohola Heiau, a temple built by this king, lie on the Northwestern shore of Hawaii
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew in downtown Honolulu) Appropriately, a statue of this great Hawaiian is located on King Street
  • During the 1782-1810 Hawaiian Wars, he became king of all the Hawaiian Islands
  • This Hawaiian leader was known as the "Napoleon of the Pacific"
  • On June 11, the day that honors him, hundreds of leis are draped over his statue in front of Iolani Palace
  • In 1840 this king, the third in the dynasty, had enough time in his 29-year reign to give Hawaii its first constitution
  • Known as the "Napoleon of the Pacific", he united the islands by 1810 & forged them into a kingdom
  • The ruins of Pu'ukohola Heiau, a temple built by this king, are a national historic site