She named the child using the words liliʻu (smarting), loloku (tearful), walania (a burning pain) and kamakaʻeha (sore eyes). At the time she was born, Kuhina Nui (regent) Elizabeth Kīnaʻu had developed an eye infection. According to Hawaiian custom, she was named after an event linked to her birth. She was born in the large grass hut of her maternal grandfather, ʻAikanaka, at the base of Punchbowl Crater in Honolulu on the island of Oʻahu.

Liliʻuokalani was born Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Kamakaʻeha on September 2, 1838, to Analea Keohokālole and Caesar Kapaʻakea. 3.4 Second regency and death of Kalākaua.Living out the remainder of her later life as a private citizen, Liliʻuokalani died at her residence, Washington Place, in Honolulu on November 11, 1917. Attempts were made to restore the monarchy and oppose annexation, but with the outbreak of the Spanish–American War, the United States annexed Hawaiʻi. On January 24, 1895, Liliʻuokalani was forced to abdicate the Hawaiian throne, officially ending the deposed monarchy. After an unsuccessful uprising to restore the monarchy, the oligarchical government placed the former queen under house arrest at the ʻIolani Palace. The coup d'état established the Republic of Hawaiʻi, but the ultimate goal was the annexation of the islands to the United States, which was temporarily blocked by President Grover Cleveland. Stevens to protect American interests, which rendered the monarchy unable to protect itself. The overthrow was bolstered by the landing of US Marines under John L. Threatened by her attempts to abrogate the Bayonet Constitution, pro-American elements in Hawaiʻi overthrew the monarchy on January 17, 1893. During her reign, she attempted to draft a new constitution which would restore the power of the monarchy and the voting rights of the economically disenfranchised. Liliʻuokalani ascended to the throne on January 29, 1891, nine days after her brother's death. During the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, she represented her brother as an official envoy to the United Kingdom.

In 1877, after her younger brother Leleiohoku II's death, she was proclaimed as heir apparent to the throne. After the accession of her brother David Kalākaua to the throne in 1874, she and her siblings were given Western style titles of Prince and Princess. The couple had no biological children but adopted several.

She was married to American-born John Owen Dominis, who later became the Governor of Oʻahu. Baptized as a Christian and educated at the Royal School, she and her siblings and cousins were proclaimed eligible for the throne by King Kamehameha III. While her natural parents were Analea Keohokālole and Caesar Kapaʻakea, she was hānai (informally adopted) at birth by Abner Pākī and Laura Kōnia and raised with their daughter Bernice Pauahi Bishop. Liliʻuokalani was born on September 2, 1838, in Honolulu, on the island of Oʻahu. The composer of ' Aloha ʻOe' and numerous other works, she wrote her autobiography Hawaiʻi's Story by Hawaiʻi's Queen during her imprisonment following the overthrow. Liliʻuokalani ( Hawaiian pronunciation: Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Kamakaʻeha Septem– November 11, 1917) 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. Hānai adoptive father Abner PākīĪnalea Keohokālole. Liliʻu Loloku Walania Kamakaʻeha (given at birth)Ĭaesar Kapaʻakea.

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