Kamehameha-Dynastie – Kamehameha V

Kings name:	Kamehameha V
Name:	Lot Kapuāiwa
Full name:	Lota Kapuāiwa Kalanimakua Aliʻiōlani Kalanikupuapaʻīkalaninui
Birth:	December 11, 1830
Place:	Honolulu, Oahu
Died:	December 11, 1872
Place:	Honolulu, Oahu
Cause of death:
Age:	42 Years

Wife:

Father:	Mataio Kekūanāoʻa
Mother:	Elizabeth Kīnaʻu

Step-grandfather:	High Chief Ulumāheihei Hoapili

Siblings 1:	David Kamehameha
Siblings 2:	Moses Kekūāiwa
Siblings 3:	Alexander Liholiho
Siblings 4:	Victoria Kamāmalu
Siblings 5:	half-sister Ruth Keelikolani

Short Timline

1852 to 1855 he served on the Privy Council
1852 to 1862 in the House of Nobles
1857 to 1863 he was Minister of the Interior
1857 to 1858 chief justice of the supreme court
1862, he was officially added to the line of succession in an amendment to the 1852 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii
He came to power on November 30, 1863, after his brother’s death
May 1864 he called for a constitutional convention
July 7, 1864 he proposed a new constitution rather than amending the old one
August 20, 1864, he signed the 1864 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii
When he appointed Charles de Varigny, a French national, as minister of finance in December 1863, Americans in Hawaiʻi were convinced that he had adopted an anti- American policy
In 1865 a bill was brought before the legislature permitting the sale of liquor to the Native Hawaiians. Kamehameha V surprised the supporters of bill, saying „I will never sign the death warrant of my people.“ Alcoholism was one of the many causes of the already declining population of the native Hawaiians.