Daily Archives for 16 September 2013


September 16: Marriage of Lydia Liliuokalani

On 16 September 1862, Lydia Liliuokalani married ha’ole [non-Hawaiian] John Owen Dominis. In January 1891, after the death of her brother, Liliuokalani would become the last Queen of Hawaii. The Hawaiian Islands were “discovered” by Captain James Cook on 18 January 1778. He named them the Sandwich Islands after John Montague, the fourth Earl of […]