Showing posts with label Boki. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boki. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Pahikaua – Rebellion of 1831

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From 1825 until her death in 1832, Kaʻahumanu was one of the staunchest friends of the missionaries and one of the foremost supporters of...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Early Sugar Use … Rum

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The early Polynesian settlers to Hawaiʻi brought sugar cane with them and demonstrated that it could be grown successfully.  In 1802, sug...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Nānākuli

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There are lots of theories are out there about what Nānākuli means - several suggest it relates to looking at knees - others reference ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Boki (Poki)

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Boki (born before 1785 - died after December 1829) was the son of Kekuamanoha, a chief of Maui (but it was rumored that he was the son ...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Mākaha

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The ahupuaʻa of Mākaha, between Waiʻanae Ahupuaʻa to the southeast and Keaʻau Ahupua‘a to the northwest, extends from the coastline to th...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Louis Désiré Maigret, SS.CC.

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In 1819, Kalanimōkū was the first Hawaiian Chief to be formally baptized a Catholic, aboard the French ship Uranie. "The captain a...
Monday, March 18, 2013

College Hill

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In 1829, Governor Boki gave the land to Hiram Bingham – who subsequently gave it to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Miss...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

Haleuluhe – King Kamehameha III’s Honolulu Residence

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Kauikeaouli, Kamehameha III, stepped into the position of King at age 10 (in 1825,) upon the death of his brother Liholiho. Boki, gove...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Sad Sailing of the HMS Blonde

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Ka‘iana‘ahu‘ula was the first Hawaiian chief to travel to foreign countries; he went to Canton, China in 1787 returning in 1788. In ...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

Catholicism in Hawaiʻi

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The first church in Hawaiʻi was built by the New England Protestant missionaries who arrived in Hawaiʻi in 1820.  However, Western relig...