NORWEGIAN ALOHA: The Making of a Sugar Cane Engineer
By Olaf R. Olsen (Susan de la Vergne, editor)
Timeline of Events in Norwegian Aloha
- 1880
- Ole Olsen's parents leave Oslo by steamer ship for a long voyage to Honolulu. They arrive in January 1881.
- 1881
- Ole Olsen born in Halawa on the island of Hawai’i on May 24.
- 1893
- The last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawai’i, Queen Lili’uokalani, is deposed by a group of American and Europeans in a coup d’état.
- 1898
- Spanish-American War ends and the U.S. takes possession of Guam, Puerto Rico and The Phillipines. Hawai’i becomes a Territory of the United States.
- 1899
- Bubonic plague reaches Hawaii in December of 1899. Local officials burn down the buildings in Honolulu's Chinatown where patients with the disease lived. The Honolulu Fire Department loses control of the fire on January 20, 1900 and most of the buildings in Chinatown are burned to the ground.
- 1908
- Kahuku Plantation Strike begins, triggered by a single event: a Hawaiian "luna" (boss) sneers at Filipino laborers at Kahuku Plantation.
- 1918
- World War I ends.
- 1935
- Re-design of the Lihue Mill.
- 1941
- Attack on Pearl Harbor.
- 1954
- Lihue Union Church built, Ole Olsen is the Project Manager.
- 1959
- Hawai'i becomes the 50th state on August 21.
- 1966
- Ole Olsen passed away in Lihue, Kauai, Hawai'i.