Timeline of Honolulu
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA.
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1700s-1800s
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- 1795 - Area populated by "Kamehameha's chiefs and followers."[1]
- 1810 - Kamehameha I relocates to inner harbour of Honolulu from Waikiki.[2]
- 1816 - Fort built.[3]
- 1820 - Honolulu becomes capital of Hawaii.[4]
- 1826 - C. Brewer & Co. founded.[5]
- 1833
- Oahu Charity School founded.[3]
- Brinsmade, Ladd, and Hooper in business.[1]
- 1836
- Lahaina, Maui becomes capital from 1837-1845.
- Royal Hawaiian Band founded.
- Sandwich Island Gazette and Journal of Commerce begins publication.[6]
- 1840
- 1842 - Kawaiahaʻo Church built.
- 1843
- 1846 - Honolulu Police Department established.
- 1849
- August–September: French invasion of Honolulu.
- Hackfeld and Company in business.[7]
- 1850 - City becomes capital of the islands.[2]
- 1851
- Honolulu Fire Department organized.[8]
- Castle & Cooke in business.[9]
- 1853
- Oahu College active.
- British Club founded.[3]
- 1854 - Melchers Building constructed.
- 1856
- Pacific Commercial Advertiser newspaper begins publication.[10]
- Honolulu Sailor's Home opens.
- 1857 - Honolulu Rifles instituted.[11]
- 1858 - Bishop & Co. (bank) founded.[12]>
- 1860 - Queen's Hospital built.[13]
- 1863
- Population: 14,000 (estimate).[14]
- Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii built.
- 1865 - Hawaiian Gazette newspaper begins publication.[6]
- 1866 - Wharf constructed.[14]
- 1870 - Post office built.[15]
- 1872
- 1873 - Aliiolani Hale (Parliament House) built.[13]
- 1877 - Kapiolani Park opens.
- 1879
- ʻIolani Palace built.
- Honolulu Library and Reading Room Association founded.[16]
- 1884 - Kapuāiwa Building constructed.
- 1886 - Fire in Chinatown.[17]
- 1889 - Bishop Museum and Manoa Chinese cemetery[18] founded.
- 1890 - Population: 22,907.[3]
- 1891 - Scottish Thistle Club founded.[3]
- 1892
- 1893 - January 17: Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii by Hawaiian League.
- 1894 - Theo H. Davies & Co. in business.
- 1896 - Yamato Shinbun Japanese/English-language newspaper begins publication.[6]
- 1898
- City becomes part of the U.S. Territory of Hawaii.
- Honolulu Stock and Bond Exchange established.[8]
- 1899 - U.S. Naval Station, Honolulu established.
1900s
- 1900
- Alexander Young Hotel built.[12]
- Honolulu Japanese Merchants Association[20][21] and Young Women's Christian Association chapter[22] organized.
- Alexander & Baldwin incorporated.[23]
- January 20: Fire in Chinatown.[17]
- 1901
- Streetcar begins operating.
- Honolulu Shinbun newspaper begins publication.[20]
- 1907 - University of Hawaiʻi, Honolulu County,[4] and Pacific Scientific Institution established.[3]
- 1908 - Honolulu Japanese Sake Brewing Co. in business.[20]
- 1909 - Joseph J. Fern becomes mayor.
- 1910 - Population: 52,183.[3]
- 1912 - Honolulu Star-Bulletin in publication.
- 1913 - Hawaii State Library building constructed.[16]
- 1920
- John H. Wilson becomes mayor.
- Mission Houses Museum established.
- 1922
- 1924 - Central Union Church dedicated.[26]
- 1926 - Honolulu Stadium opens.
- 1927
- John Rodgers Airport and Honolulu Academy of Arts open.
- YWCA Building (Honolulu, Hawaii) constructed.
- 1928 - Honolulu Municipal Building constructed.
- 1929 - Honolulu Board of Water Supply established.[27]
- 1930 - Foster Botanical Garden bequeathed to city.
- 1931 - Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital active.
- 1936 - Waikiki Theatre opens.[24]
- 1941
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu established.
- December 7: Japanese forces attack US naval base at Pearl Harbor.
- 1947 - Honolulu Zoo established.[28]
- 1948 - Foodland opens its first store.
- 1951 - Chung-Hua Hsin Pao Chinese-language newspaper begins publication.[6]
- 1952 - KGMB signs on the air as Honolulu's and Hawaii's first television station
- 1953 - Cherry Blossom Festival begins.[20]
- 1955 - Waikiki Beach Press newspaper begins publication.[6]
- 1959 -
- Honolulu Diamond Sangha founded.[29]
- Ala Moana Center opens
- 1960
- Hawaii National Bank headquartered in city.
- Population: 248,034.[4]
- 1961 - August 4: Birth of Barack Obama.
- 1962 - Honolulu International Airport terminal rebuilt.
- 1965 - Foreign trade zone established.[30][31]
- 1968 - Oceanic Cable begins cable television operations.
- 1969 - Hawaii State Capitol built.
- 1971 - TheBus (public transport) established.
- 1975 - Aloha Stadium opens near city.
- 1980 - Population: 365,048.[32]
- 1986 - Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i founded.[33]
- 1988 - Hawaii Maritime Center opens.
- 1990 - Population: 365,272.[34]
- 1993 - U.S. Kunia Regional SIGINT Operations Center active near city.[35]
- 1996 - City website online.[36][37]
2000s
- 2005 - Mufi Hannemann becomes mayor.[38]
- 2010
- Honolulu Civil Beat begins publication.[39]
- Kirk Caldwell becomes mayor, succeeded by Peter Carlisle.
- The Honolulu Star-Advertiser begins publications after the merger of the Advertiser and Star-Bulletin
- Population: 390,738.
- 2013 - Kirk Caldwell becomes mayor again.[40]
- 2014 - Sit-lie ordinance effected.[41]
See also
- Honolulu history
- List of mayors of Honolulu
- Timeline of Hawaii[42]
References
- 1 2 Greer 1998.
- 1 2 Daws 1967.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Britannica 1910.
- 1 2 3 Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, OL 5812502M
- ↑ Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1896. Honolulu: Thos. G. Thrum. 1896.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
- ↑ W.D. Alexander (1896), History of later years of the Hawaiian Monarchy and the revolution of 1893, Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette Company
- 1 2 Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1908. Honolulu: Thos. G. Thrum. 1907.
- ↑ "Mid-Pacific Magazine". 4. Honolulu: Alexander Hume Ford. July 1912.
- ↑ "Hawaiian Islands". Nelson Chesman & Co.'s Newspaper Rate Book. USA. 1922.
- ↑ Howard Malcolm Ballou, ed. (1915). Preliminary catalogue of Hawaiiana in the library of George R. Carter, Honolulu. Boston.
- 1 2 Schnack 1915.
- 1 2 3 Henry M. Whitney (1875), Hawaiian Guide Book, for Travelers, Honolulu: H.M. Whitney, OCLC 7267149
- 1 2 McCulloch 1880.
- 1 2 Peterson 1952.
- 1 2 "Hawaii", Library Journal, 45, April 15, 1920
- 1 2 "A History of Change". Honolulu's Chinatown. Greater Good Inc. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
- ↑ Lau 2004.
- ↑ "About the Hawaiian Historical Society". Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Society. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 Brian Niiya, ed. (1993), Japanese American History: an A-To-Z Reference from 1868 to the Present, Facts on File, ISBN 9780816026807
- ↑ "History of the Chamber". Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
- ↑ "Historical Timeline of the YWCA of Oahu". YWCA. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
- ↑ "History". Honolulu: Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
- 1 2 "Movie Theaters in Honolulu". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
- ↑ "Historic Theatre Inventory". Maryland, USA: League of Historic American Theatres. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
- ↑ "(Items related to Honolulu)". Digital Gallery. New York Public Library. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
- ↑ Edward J. Morgan (1957). "Honolulu Water Supply". Journal. American Water Works Association. 49. JSTOR 41254752.
- ↑ "About Us". Honolulu Zoo. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
- ↑ Pluralism Project. "Buddhism in America". America's Many Religions: Timelines. Harvard University. Retrieved October 4, 2013.
- ↑ "U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board Order Summary". Washington DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
- ↑ Susan Tiefenbrun (2012), Tax Free Trade Zones of the World and in the United States, Edward Elgar, p. 79, ISBN 9781849802437
- ↑ United States Census Bureau (1984), County and City Data Book, 1983, Statistical Abstract, Washington DC, OL 14997563M
- ↑ "History". Honolulu: Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
- ↑ Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
- ↑ Pike, John; Aftergood, Steven (2000-09-13). "Regional SIGINT Operations Center Kunia". Federation of American Scientists. Retrieved 2013-11-08.
- ↑ "Kokua Line: City will soon have its own home on the web", Honolulu Star-Bulletin, September 14, 1996
- ↑ "City and County of Honolulu". Archived from the original on August 9, 2002 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Mayor". City and County of Honolulu.
- ↑ "Hawaii". CJR's Guide to Online News Startups. New York: Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
- ↑ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
- ↑ "Aloha and Welcome to Paradise. Unless You're Homeless", New York Times, June 3, 2016
- ↑ Info Grafik Inc. "Hawaii Timeline". HawaiiHistory.org. Honolulu: Hukilau Network.
Bibliography
- Published in the 1800s
- Josiah Conder (1834), "Sandwich Islands", Dictionary of Geography, Ancient and Modern, London: T. Tegg,
Honoruru
- James Jackson Jarves (1843), "(Honolulu)", Scenes and scenery in the Sandwich Islands, Boston: J. Munroe, OCLC 12254292
- Honolulu Directory, and Historical Sketch of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands. Honolulu: Chauncey C. Bennett. 1869.
- Manley Hopkins (1869), "Our Royal City of Honolulu", Hawaii: the past, present, and future of its island-kingdom; an historical account of the Sandwich Islands (Polynesia) (2nd ed.), New York: D. Appleton and Co., OCLC 10329531
- Laura Fish Judd (1880), "Honolulu in 1861 (etc.)", Honolulu, sketches of life, social, political, and religious, in the Hawaiian Islands from 1828 to 1861, New York: A.D.F. Randolph & Co.
- John Ramsay McCulloch (1880), "Sandwich Islands", in Hugh G. Reid, A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- A.D. Hall (1898), "Honolulu", Hawaii, New York: Street & Smith, OCLC 10414631
- Charles Morris (1899), "Honolulu", Our Island Empire: a Hand-book of Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, OCLC 541085
- Published in the 1900s
- John L. Stevens (1900), "Honolulu", Riches and Marvels of Hawaii, Philadelphia, Pa: Edgewood Publishing Company
- "Honolulu", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901
- Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1902. Honolulu: Thos. G. Thrum. 1901.
- "Honolulu", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- Ferdinand J.H. Schnack (1915), "Honolulu (etc).", Aloha Guide; the Standard Handbook of Honolulu and the Hawaiian Islands, Printed by Honolulu Star-Bulletin
- Views of Honolulu, Honolulu: Hawaiian Jewelry and Novelty Co., 1919, OCLC 5950429
- Charles E. Peterson (1952). "Concrete Blocks, Honolulu, 1870's". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 11. JSTOR 987613.
- Gavan Daws (1967). "Honolulu in the 19th Century: Notes on the Emergence of Urban Society in Hawaii". Journal of Pacific History. 2. JSTOR 25167896.
- George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Honolulu", World Encyclopedia of Cities, 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO (fulltext via Open Library)
- Trudy Ring and Robert M. Salkin, ed. (1995). "Honolulu". Americas. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Routledge. p. 283+. ISBN 978-1-134-25930-4.
- Richard A. Greer (1998). "Along the Old Honolulu Waterfront". Hawaiian Journal of History. 32. Hawaii Historical Society. pp. 53–66. hdl:10524/430.
- "Hawaii: Honolulu", USA, Let's Go, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, OL 24937240M
- Published in the 2000s
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