
Board of Immigration organized to encourage settlement from the mainland.
County system of administration introduced to Hawai'i.
Legislature petitions Congress for the first time to accept Hawai'i as a state of the union.
George Carter appointed governor by President Theodore Roosevelt.
Laws prohibiting the alteration of food and drugs and providing for their inspection first enacted in Hawai'i, before the passage of the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act.
Hawai'i establishes a Board of Agriculture and Forestry with support of the HSPA and allows lands to be set aside for forest and water reserves.
Walter Frear begins tenure as chairman of Code Commission, supervising compilation, revision and annotation of the complete laws of Hawai'i.
Sanford B. Dole, former president of the Republic of Hawai'i, begins serving as U.S. District Judge.
Largest array of U.S. warships arrives in Honolulu Harbor to take on supplies: flagship
Kentucky, battleships
Wisconsin and
Oregon, and cruisers
New Orleans,
Albany,
Cincinnati and
Raleigh carry two Admirals and over 3,000 men.
First major wave of Korean immigration begins, bringing 7,843 individuals to the Islands by 1905. The first group of 103 Koreans is sent to Waialua Plantation to work.
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