Capitol moved from Lahaina, Maui to Honolulu.

Robert C. Wyllie issues the first passport granted by the Kingdom of Hawai'i to Jose Nadal.

First Legislative assembly under the constitution of 1840 opened by the king in Honolulu.

Hale Ali'i, completed by O'ahu Governor Kekuanaoa, serves as a domicile for five kings in its 33 years.

The trail over Oahu's Pali widened and paved with stones.

"Normal School" established with a budget of $25,000.

$581,000 worth of imports arrive in Hawai'i; exports total $98,000.

First crop of island coffee exported.

Board of Commissioners created to study the issue of private land ownership.

Approximately 2,000 Hawaiian seamen work on foreign ships.

Frequent and fairly regular mail service begins running between Honolulu and San Francisco. Service continues three years until 1848.

Dr. Dwight Baldwin treats a high chief who apparently has leprosy (Hansen's disease); the chief had caught the disease five years earlier. This is the earliest recorded case of leprosy in the Islands, although it is not recognized at the time.

First photograph in Hawai'i taken; Theophilus Metcalf is the first photographer in the Islands.

The first English-Hawaiian dictionary published by the Lahainaluna Press.

Hydraulic crane invented.

Wagner's opera Tannhauser performed.