Kamehameha-Dynastie – Kamehameha II.

Kings name:	Kamehameha II.
Name:	Liholiho
Full name:	Kalaninui kua Liholiho i ke kapu ʻIolani
Birth:	* c. 1797
Place:	Hilo, Island of Hawai’i [*1]
Died:	† 14. Juli 1824
Place:	London
Cause of death:	Measles
Age:	26 Years
Burial:	May 11, 1825[1]
	Mauna ʻAla Royal Mausoleum

Wife:	Kamāmalu
	Kīnaʻu
	Kekāuluohi
	Pauahi
	Kekauʻōnohi

Father:	Kamehameha I
Mother:	Keopuolani

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Term of office:	1819 bis 1824

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Short Timeline

May 1819	After Kamehameha’s I. death kept Queen Kaʻahumanu the leadership and gave later the announcment of Liholiho as the King Kamehameha II.
November 16, 1820	Kamehameha II. bought the Royal Yacht known as Cleopatra’s Barge for 8000 piculs of sandalwood (over a million pounds; c. $80’000.-)
	The Barge had been sold for $15,400 by the Crowninshield family of Salem, Massachusetts
April 18, 1822	It required a major overhaul, after the repairs, he renamed his ship Haʻaheo o Hawaiʻi („Pride of Hawaii“)
May 10, 1823	It was wrecked less than a year later.
April 16, 1822	English missionary William Ellis arrived with the gift from the King of Great Britaina, the schooner Prince Regent of six guns to add to his growing collection of ships
November 1823	Kamehameha II and Queen Kamāmalu mounted the British whaling ship L’Aigle („the Eagle“) under Captain Valentine Starbuck to carry them to London
February 1824	Arrival at Rio de Janeiro
May 17, 1824	Arrival in Portsmouth and the next day moved into the Caledonian Hotel in London
May 28, 1824	They toured through London
May 31, 1824	They attended opera and ballet at Royal Opera House in Covent Garden
June 4, 1824	Theatre Royal in Drury Lane
June 5, 1824	Visit to the Royal Military Asylum (now the Duke of York’s Royal Military School).
June 21, 1824	King Kamehameha II. and Queen Kaʻahumanu became ill, the meeting with King Georg IV got canceled.
	They contracted probably the disease, measles, from the June 5
July 8, 1824	Queen Kamāmalu died
July 14, 1824	Kamehameha II died six days later
July 17, 1824	Kamehameha II. was laid in state at the Caledonian Hotel
July 18, 1824	The bodies were stored in the crypt of St Martin-in-the-Fields church where they awaited transportation back home.
	Governor Boki took over lead of the delegation
September 1824	The bodies returned to Hawaii on the enormous Royal Navy frigate HMS Blonde under the command of Captain George Anson Byron
May 6, 1825	The Blonde arrived back in Honolulu
	They were buried on the grounds of the ʻIolani Palace in a coral house, later they got moved to the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii