Liliʻuokalani

Monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom (1838–1917)

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Lived 1838–1917, aged 79

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1838–1917
Aged 79

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Updated 2026-05-29

Hawaii's last reigning queen who ruled for two years before a coup cut her reign short in 1893. She's also credited with composing "Aloha ʻOe" and wrote her memoir from prison after the overthrow.

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Liliʻuokalani 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, in a coup that was led by the Committee of Safety, composed of seven foreign residents and six Hawaiian Kingdom subjects of American descent in Honolulu. The composer of "Aloha ʻOe" and numerous other works, she wrote her autobiography Hawaiʻi's Story by Hawaiʻi's Queen (1898) during her imprisonment following the overthrow.

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