Tyhune, a Chinese businessman in Honolulu, provides rooms for opium addicts from his country.
Kamehameha III, still a teenager, rebels against laws previously enacted.
A status rivalry among Hawaii's ali`i fuels extravagant consumer behavior. As merchant creditors demand payment for exotic clothing and other items, chiefs tax commoners beyond historical normal bounds, subtly and irrevocably changing the traditional subsistence economy.
First hospital for foreign sailors, the British Hospital for Seamen, established by an English tavern keeper.
Seamen's Bethel opened by John Diell, providing sailors with a chance to learn how to read.
Samuel Colt perfects a successful revolving pistol.
