Biography of king kalakua
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King David Kalākaua: The Original Most Interesting Man In The World
Today we introduce you to the most interesting man in the world.
No, not this guy.
This guy:
King David Kalākaua was the last king of Hawaii and he ruled from 1874 to 1891.
Biography of king kalakua
He was actually elected, not born into his regency — when the last of the Kamehameha kings died, Kalākaua ran for king and won. He didn't win by a popular vote; he was elected by the then-Hawaiian legislature.
Tiffany Ing, a professor and Hawaiian scholar at the University of Hawaii, wrote her dissertation on 19th century representations of Kalākaua and knows a lot about him.
She says that the first Christian missionaries arrived in Hawaii in 1820 and were very successful in converting Native Hawaiians to Christianity, and developing relationships with the Hawaiian monarchs.
The monarchs grew to trust the missionaries and began giving them government positions, which they accepted.
And then over time, the children of these missiona