Hawaii

The history of Hawaii includes phases of early Polynesian settlement, Euro-American and Asian immigration, overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, admission to the United States as a territory and then a state. This subject is also discussed in capsule form.
The islands were first settled by Polynesians, either in a rather continuous process during the second half of the 1st millennium AD, or first by voyagers from the Marquesas sometime before 500 AD, and then by a second wave of immigrants from Tahiti around 1300 AD (one-migration and two-migration theories); currently, the former is preferred among some archaeologists as it better fits their interpetation of the archaeological record (note that "one-migration" does not imply a single settlement voyage, but merely a single, continuous settlement period). It is possible that Spanish explorers arrived shortly after 1527: Juan Gaetano, a Spanish navigator, may have visited in 1555. However, Spain never claimed the islands and on January 18, 1778 Captain James Cook and his crew were surprised to find high islands so far north in the Pacific. He named them the Sandwich Islands, after the First Lord of the Admiralty, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu.

 

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