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Kalākaua
Kalākaua was king of Hawaii from 1874 to 1891. He secured the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875, which let Hawaiian sugar into the United States duty-free, became the first reigning monarch to travel around the world in 1881 and revived Hawaiian traditions such as the hula. In 1887 planters forced him to accept the Bayonet Constitution. He died in San Francisco and was succeeded by his sister Liliʻuokalani.

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