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Also Known As Kamehameha the Great • Paiea
Born November 1758? • Kohala Mountains • Hawaii
Died May 8, 1819 • Kailua • Hawaii
Notable Family Members daughter Nahienaena • son Kamehameha III • son Kamehameha II

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Kamehameha I, detail of a coloured lithograph by D. Veelward, 1822, after an engraving by Louis Choris, 1816
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Liliuokalani
Liliuokalani
queen of Hawaii
Kamehameha IV, c. 1862–63.
Kamehameha IV
king of Hawaii
Kaahumanu
Kaahumanu
queen of Hawaii
Kalakaua
Kalakaua
king of Hawaii
Kamehameha III
king of Hawaii
Kamehameha V, 1865
Kamehameha V
king of Hawaii
Kamehameha II, watercolour mounted on paper artist unknown; in the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu
Kamehameha II
king of Hawaii
Baldwin V
count of Flanders
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
king of Macedonia
portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer
Charlemagne
Holy Roman emperor [747?–814]
Frederick II
Frederick II
king of Prussia
Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck
German chancellor and prime minister
Augustus
Augustus
Roman emperor
Peter I
Peter I
emperor of Russia
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
premier of Soviet Union
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan
Mongol ruler
Cecil Rhodes
Cecil Rhodes
prime minister of Cape Colony
Philip II
Philip II
king of Macedonia
William Pitt, the Elder
William Pitt, the Elder
prime minister of United Kingdom

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