Kamehameha-Dynastie – Kamehameha III.

Kings name:	Kamehameha III.
Name:	Kauikeaouli
Full name:	Keaweaweʻula Kīwalaʻō Kauikeaouli Kaleiopapa Kalani Waiakua Kalanikau Iokikilo Kīwalaʻō i ke kapu Kamehameha
Birth:	March 17, 1814
Place:	Keauhou Bay at North Kona, Hawaiʻi island
Died:	December 15, 1854
Place:	Hoihoikeʻea, Honolulu, Oʻahu
Cause of death:
Age:	40 Years

Burial:	January 10, 1855
	Mauna ʻAla Royal Mausoleum

Wife:	Queen Kalama


Father:	Kamehameha I
Mother:	Keōpūolani

Step-grandfather:
Oncel:


Siblings 1:	Prince Keaweaweʻulaokalani I – died
Siblings 2:	Prince Keaweaweʻulaokalani II -died
Siblings 3:
Siblings 4:
Siblings 5:

Term of office:	June 6, 1825 – December 15, 1854

Issue:	Keaweaweʻulaokalani I
	Keaweaweʻulaokalani II
	Kīwalaʻō (illegitimate)
	Albert Kūnuiākea (illegitimate)
	Kamehameha IV (hānai)
	Kaʻiminaʻauao (hānai)

Religion:

Christian

Signature:

Short Timeline

1835	When Kauikeaouli came to the throne in 1835, the native population numbered about 150,000, which was already less than one third of the Hawaiian population at the time of Captain Cook’s arrival to Hawaii in 1778.
1832	Kamehameha III should marrie the daughter Kamanele of Governor John Adams Kuakini
1834	Kamanele died before the marriage
February 14, 1837	Kamehameha III marry Kalama Hakaleleponi Kapakuhaili after the death of his sister late 1836 in a Christian ceremony, against the wishes of Kīnaʻu
1839	The first act of Kamehameha III was a declaration of human rights after the training of William Richards when he resign from the church and become a political advisor.
1839	Under a French threat of war, Roman Catholicism was legalized in the Edict of Toleration and the first statutory law code was established
1840	Hawaii’s first Constitution
1840	He moved the capital from Lahaina to Honolulu
September 1840	Charles Wilkes arrived on the United States Exploring Expedition
February 1843	British Captain Lord George Paulet pressured Kamehameha III into surrendering the Hawaiian kingdom to the British crown
	Kamehameha III alerted London of the captain’s rogue actions which eventually restored the kingdom’s independence
July 1843	British Admiral Richard Thomas rejected Paulet’s actions and the kingdom was restored on July 31
July 31, 1843	Was celebrated thereafter as Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea, Sovereignty Restoration Day, an official national holiday of the kingdom
November 28,1843	Britain and France officially recognized the independence of the Hawaiian Kingdom
1840s	Through the 1840s a formal legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom and cabinet replaced the informal council of chiefs
February 10, 1846	A commission to Quiet Land Titles was formed
1849	Admiral Louis Tromelin led a French invasion of Honolulu
September 1849	Judd was sent with the heir apparent Prince Alexander Liholiho and Kamehameha V on a diplomatic mission. They returned with a new treaty with the United States
1850s	Hawaii became a popular winter destination
May 16, 1854	King Kamehameha III proclaimed the Hawaiian Kingdom neutral in the Crimean War in Europe
August 1854	U.S. Commissioner David L. Gregg received instructions from Secretary of State William L. Marcy and negotiated a treaty of annexation with Wyllie
	It was never signed, and might not have been ratified by the Senate