jul 6, 1887 - Under pressure from an armed militia known as "The Honolulu Rifles," linked to wealthy owners--mostly Americans--of sugar plantations, Hawaiian King Kalakaua signs a new constitution transferring power to the legislature and grating suffrage to foreigners by linking voting rights to property ownership. This was known as the Bayonet Constitution. Six years later the same forces will again push for Hawaiian annexation by the US
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jul 6, 1887
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~ 139 years ago