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Important Dates In Portuguese Hawaiian History
by Melody Lassalle
1835....William Hooper opens the Koloa Sugar Plantation for business
1842.....First law requiring reporting of marriages and births
1843.....United States recognition of Hawaiian Independence
1846.....First law requiring a license to marry
1847.....Legal adoptions recognized
1859.....First law requiring the reporting of deaths
1865.....Act to prevent the spread of leprosy enacted; Molokai established
1876.....Jason Perry recommends laborers from Madeira and Azores for plantations
1878.....Portuguese immigration to Hawaii begins
1888.....Cessation of first campaign to bring contract laborers from Portugal
1893.....Revolution in Hawaii deposes Queen Liliuokalani
1894.....Hawaiian Republic recognized by U.S. government
1896.....Responsibility for birth, death, and marriage registration given to Dept. of Health
1898.....Annexation to United States
1900.....Territory of Hawaii organized
1900.....Laborers who completed their contracts begin migrating to other islands and California
1906.....Second campaign of Portuguese contract laborers begins
1913.....Complete cessation of Portuguese contract laborer immigration to Hawaii
1914.....From 1911-1914, approx. 2,000 Portuguese leave Hawaii for California
1941.....Pearl Habor attacked
1959.....Hawaiian Statehood
© 2002 Melody Lassalle
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