Hawai'i

Hawaiʻi was the largest island of the Hawaiian chain, ruled by chiefs of the Pili line. Around the early fourteenth century the high chief Kalaunuiohua fought the rulers of the other islands, but Kukona of Kauaʻi defeated and held him captive.

In the sixteenth century Līloa’s son Umi united nearly all of Hawaiʻi island. After James Cook landed in 1778, Kamehameha used European ships and firearms in his conquests, defeating rivals in 1795 and completing a united Kingdom of Hawaiʻi in 1810.