The USS Boston's landing force on duty at the Arlington Hotel, Honolulu, at the time of the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, January 1893. Lieutenant Lucien Young, USN, commanded the detachment, and is presumably the officer at right.[1]
Date
January 17, 1893; 131 years ago (1893-01-17)
Location
Honolulu, Hawaii
Result
Hawaiian League / United States victory
Surrender of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Queen Liliʻuokalani relinquishes power
Provisional Government, later renamed a Republic, established
Hawaii organized into a territory, then a state of the United States
Belligerents
Committee of Safety United States
Hawaiian Kingdom
Commanders and leaders
Lorrin A. Thurston
John L. Stevens
Queen Liliʻuokalani
Samuel Nowlein
Charles B. Wilson
Strength
United States
1 cruiser, USS Boston
162 US Navy and USMC personnel
496 troops[2]
(several) Volunteers
85–110 Police
322–337 Royal Guard
50–65 at ʻIolani Palace
272 at ʻIolani Barracks[3]
8–14 artillery pieces
1 Gatling gun
Casualties and losses
None
1 wounded
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Hawaiian Rebellions
Rebellion of 1887
Wilcox Rebellion 1889
Burlesque Conspiracy
Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Leper War
Black Week
1895 Wilcox rebellion
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Hawaiian sovereignty movement
The inverted Hawaiian flag represents the Hawaiian Kingdom in distress and is the main symbol of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.
Main issues
Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Opposition to the overthrow
Legal status of Hawaii
US federal recognition of Native Hawaiians
Governments
Chiefdom
Kingdom
Provisional Government
Government in Exile
Republic
Territory
State
Historical conflicts
Hawaiian rebellions (1887–1895)
Wilcox rebellion of 1889
Leper War on Kauaʻi
Black Week (Hawaii)
1895 Wilcox rebellion
Modern events
Hawaiian Renaissance
2008 occupation of Iolani Palace
125th anniversary of the overthrow
Parties and organizations
Aloha ʻĀina Party
Home Rule Party of Hawaii
Office of Hawaiian Affairs
Documents and ideas
Sovereignty Restoration Day
Blount Report
Morgan Report
Bayonet Constitution
Proposed 1893 Constitution
Kūʻē Petitions
Newlands Resolution
Hawaiian Organic Act
Apology Resolution
Akaka Bill
Books
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen
Kaua Kuloko 1895[4]
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The overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom was a coup d'état against Queen Liliʻuokalani, which took place on January 17, 1893, on the island of Oʻahu and led by the Committee of Safety, composed of seven foreign residents and six Hawaiian Kingdom subjects of American descent in Honolulu.[5][6] The Committee prevailed upon American minister John L. Stevens to call in the U.S. Marines to protect the national interest of the United States of America. The insurgents established the Republic of Hawaii, but their ultimate goal was the annexation of the islands to the United States, which occurred in 1898.
The 1993 Apology Resolution by the U.S. Congress concedes that "the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii occurred with the active participation of agents and citizens of the United States and [...] the Native Hawaiian people never directly relinquished to the United States their claims to their inherent sovereignty as a people over their national lands, either through the Kingdom of Hawaii or through a plebiscite or referendum". Debates regarding the event play an important role in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.
^U.S. Navy History site. History.navy.mil (March 22, 2005). Retrieved on July 6, 2011.
^Young, Lucien (1899). The Real Hawaii. Doubleday & McClure company. p. 252.
^Kuykendall 1967, p. 605.
^Spencer, Thomas P. (1895). Kaua Kuloko 1895. Honolulu: Papapai Mahu Press Publishing Company. OCLC 19662315.
^Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1894. WHO WERE THE PARTIES THAT ASKED FOR AMERICAN AID. Six of them were Hawaiians, one English, and one German; five were Americans, but residents of Honolulu; a majority alien to us.
^Kam, Ralph Thomas; Lyons, Jeffrey K. (2019). "Remembering the Committee of Safety: Identifying the Citizenship, Descent, and Occupations of the Men Who Overthrew the Monarchy". The Hawaiian Journal of History. 53. Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Society: 31–54. doi:10.1353/hjh.2019.0002. hdl:10524/63187. ISSN 2169-7639. OCLC 60626541. S2CID 212795443.
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