Before 1941 | Military | Activism | Reclamation | Island Returned


Circa A.D. 1000 -
The earliest radiocarbon dates
are from settlements along the
coast of the island.


1793 -
British captain George Vancouver
introduced the first goats to the island.


Beginning the 1830s -
Queen Ka‘ahumanu enacts a new
legal system that uses the island as
a penal colony.


Late 1800s -
Sheep and cattle are taken to the island.

 

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