Lili?uokalani

Liliuokalani (also called Lydia Kamakahea, Lydia Liliuokalani Paki, Liliu Kamakaeha, Lydia Paki Liliuokalani Kamehaka, or Lydia Paki Liliuokalani Kamehamea ) ( born September 2, 1838 in Honolulu, Hawaii Kingdom, † November 11, 1917 ibid ) was from 1891 to 1893 the last queen of Hawaii.

Life

Liliuokalani grew according to the Hawaiian tradition with adoptive parents. Subsequently, she was educated at the Royal School run by American missionaries. She learned English and converted to the Congregational Church. She lived at King Kamehameha IV and his wife Emma. First they should their son, Prince Lunalilo marry, 1862, but opted for the Croatian -born American John Owen Dominis, the son of a captain from Boston.

Liliuokalanis brother, David Kalākaua followed Lunalilo to the throne, but remained childless. Liliuokalani was determined on 10 April 1877 heir to the throne, after her brother Leleiohoku had died. She founded several schools with the aim, in particular young women of Hawaiian ancestry to provide a proper education. 1887 she traveled first to Europe, where she met the Queen of England and Queen Victoria visited President Cleveland in the United States.

After the death of Liliuokalanis brother was proclaimed on January 29, 1891 Queen. Their attempts, the Hawaiian crown to give the gift of power, failed due to the interest policy of the United States. The abolition of the tariff advantage for the importation of Hawaiian sugar to the United States in 1890 plunged the country into a severe economic crisis. 1893 Liliuokalani tried to impose a new constitution, but failed again. American citizen who lived as a wealthy owners of sugar plantations in Hawaii, founded in return a "Committee of Public Safety " and campaigned for the abolition of the monarchy. In charge here was the "Banana Baron" Sanford Dole. In his contribution towards U.S. Marines landed in 1893 in Hawaii and asked the Queen under house arrest.

1894 called on the U.S. usurpers of the Republic of Hawaii and Sanford Dole became its first and only president. Beginning of 1895, a group of royalists with a Coup d' État to save the independence of Hawaii and to help the Queen back to power. After the failure of this rebellion Liliuokalani was arrested, convicted of treason and imprisoned in Iolani Palace. As a prize for the release of their supporters from prisons thanked Queen Liliuokalani in 1895 formally from and went again to Washington, DC, but failed to reach a success for the cause of the Hawaiian freedom. 1898 Hawaii was annexed by the United States because of its strategic location in the Spanish-American War. Liliuokalani received a pension and had to spend the rest of their lives in Honolulu in the house of her father. She died of a stroke.

She was musical and composed more than 100 songs, including the world-famous Aloha Oe.

The story of Liliuokalani was the template for the operetta Die Blume von Hawaii by Paul Abraham.