Historical Event Timeline
1874
Kalakaua meets Grant


Kalakaua meets Grant

Kalākaua was reportedly the first sitting monarch to visit the United States when he made a cross-country trip from San Francisco to Washington aboard the still-new transcontinental railroad in 1874. He was seeking better trade between the United States and his Sandwich Islands, which is how mapmakers of the day labeled the Pacific archipelago that would become an American territory in 1898..
1881
Kalakaua Visits Thomas Edison in New York City in 1881
By early 1887, preparations to place electric wires throughout the Palace interior were underway and the arrival of a new steam engine was mentioned in The Daily Bulletin on March 18, 1887. Kalakaua hoped to have the electric lights in place for a royal ball to celebrate Queen Victoria’s birthday in May that year but the event had to be postponed. Finally, on June 1, 1887, work was completed and electric lights illuminated the interior of the Palace for the first time.
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