Liliʻuokalani

✶September 2, 1838

†November 11, 1917

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About their life

Liliʻuokalani was the only queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ruling from January 29, 1891, until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 17, 1893, in a coup that was led by the Committee of Safety, composed of seven foreign residents and six Hawaiian Kingdom subjects of American descent in Honolulu. The composer of "Aloha ʻOe" and numerous other works, she wrote her autobiography Hawaiʻi's Story by Hawaiʻi's Queen (1898) during her imprisonment following the overthrow.

Queen of Hawaii from 1891 to 1893

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Biography from the article Liliʻuokalani on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.