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.