The Hawaiian Hotel is formally opened by…

1872 CE

The Hawaiian Hotel is formally opened by a ball on February 29, 1872.

Located on the corner of Hotel Street and Richards Street in Honolulu, the hotel had been proposed in 1865 but not laid down until 1871.

Queen Victoria had send her second son Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, on a state visit to Hawaii in 1869.

With these visitors have come envoys, politicians and merchants, creating the need for hotels.

Kamehameha had appealed to Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany, who loans Henri Berger, a member of Germany's imperial army band, from his Potsdam station to organize the Royal Hawaiian Band, a gift of music from the king to his people.

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