Historical Event Timeline
1855

On October 20, 1854 The London Morning Post published a landmark article titled: “A Marine and General Intelligencer.” This daily journal acknowledged and commended the achievements of missionaries (from New England) stationed in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) for their universal civic educational progress. Their achievements would form the basis for democratic principles that result in a groundbreaking constitution organizing and establishing an administrative system with three separate branches of government for the people of Hawaii. It also articulated the realistic assumption that Hawaii would in the course of time be “admitted into the American Union.” So important and pivotal was this account, that it was republished nine months later in the August 17, 1855 issue of The Friend (a publication of the American Seaman’s Friend Society). At that time, it was introduced to its readership with the title: “Annexation of the Sandwich Islands.”