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When you've got a lot of people together, it makes sense to pick someone to be in charge. As exploration expanded, individuals were chosen to oversee colonies and settlements. This section highlights those men (and some women), as well as the leaders and attendant ruling class -- nobles, peerage, wannabes and hangers-on --back home.
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Kamakahelei

borndied
unknown1794
was alii nui, or Queen regnant, of the island of Kaua'i. She was the ruling chiefess of Kauai reigning from 1770 -- 1794. In some historical references she has been described as a regent for her sons Keawe and Kaumualii. She was the sovereign of the Island of Kauai at the time Captain more
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Kamehameha I

aka: Kamehameha the Great, Kalani Pai'ea Wohi o Kaleikini Keali'ikui Kamehameha o 'Iolani i Kaiwikapu kau'i Ka Liholiho Kunuiakea
borndied
1758 ca1819, May
the founder and first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii. A statue of him was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington, D.C. by the state of Hawaii as one of two statues it is entitled to give. Accounts of Kamehameha I's birth vary but sources place his birth between 1736 and , with historian Ralph Simpson Kuykendall believing it to be betwee...
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Kamehameha II

aka: Liholiho, Kalaninui kua Liholiho i ke kapu 'Iolani
borndied
1797 ca1824, Jul 14
the second king of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Given in care to his father's trusted servant Hanapi, who took the child to rear him in the lands of Kalaoa in Hilo Paliku, he was taken back, after five or six months, by his maternal grandmother Keku'iapoiwa Liliha because she felt he was not getting the right diet. more
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Kamehameha III

aka: Kauikeaouli, Keaweawe'ula Kiwala'o Kauikeaouli Kaleiopapa
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1814, Mar 171825-18541854, Dec 15
the third king of the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1825 to 1854. Under his reign Hawaii evolved from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy with the signing of both the 1840 Constitution, which was the first Hawaiian Language Constitution, and the 1852 Constitution. He was the longest reigning monarch in the history of the Kingdom, ruling for 29 years a...
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Kamehameha IV

aka: Alexander 'Iolani Liholiho
bornactivedied
1834, Feb 91855-18631863, Nov 30
reigned as the fourth monarch of Hawaii from January 11, 1855 to November 30, 1863. Alexander Liholiho was educated by Congregationalist missionaries Amos and Juliette Cooke at the Chiefs' Children's School (later known as Royal School) in Honolulu. He was accompanied by 30 attendants (kahu) when he arrived, but they were sent home and for the first time Lih...
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Kapi'olani

aka: Kapiolani
borndied
1781 ca1841, May 5
an important member of the Hawaiian nobility at the time of the founding of the Kingdom of Hawai'i and the arrival of Christian missionaries. One of the first Hawaiians to read and write and sponsor a church, she made a dramatic display of her new faith which made her the subject of a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The father of Kapi'olani was Keawemauhili, ...
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Dingane kaSenzangakhona

aka: Dingaan
borndied
1795 ca1840
a Zulu chief who became king of the Zulu Kingdom in 1828. He set up his royal capital UmGungundlovu, and one of numerous military encampments or kraals, in the Emakhosini valley just south of the White Umfolozi River on the slope of Lion Hill (Singonyama).
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Kaumualii

aka: George Kaumuali'i
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1778 ca1824, May 26
the last independent ali'i nui (supreme ruler of the island) of Kaua'i and Ni'ihau before becoming a vassal of KamehamehaI of the unified Kingdom of Hawai?i in 1810. He was the 23rd high chief of Kaua'i, reigning from 1794-1810. Although he was sometimes known as...
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Edward Kavanagh

borndied
1795, Apr 271844, Jan 22
a United States Representative and the 17th Governor of Maine. Born in Newcastle (in modern-day Maine, then a part of Massachusetts), he attended Montreal Seminary (in Quebec, Canada) and Georgetown College, (Georgetown, D.C.) He graduated from St. Mary's College (Baltimore) in 1813. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Damarisco...
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Stephen W. Kearny

aka: Kearney
borndied
1794, Aug 301848, Oct 31
In 1812 Kearny was commissioned as a First Lieutenant in the War of 1812 in the 13th Infantry Regiment. After the war, he chose to remain in the US Army. Kearny was promoted to captain on April 1, 1813; brevet major in 1823; major, 1829; and lieutenant colonel, 1833. He was assigned to the western frontier under command of Gen. Henry Atkinson, and in 1819 he...
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Simon Kelway

bornactivedied
unknown15891623
of Dawlish, Devon, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Totnes in 1589. His family were related to the Courtenay family. The Devon Kelways were related to the Courtenays, Drakes, Grenvilles and Wadhams. Other branches of the family lived in Dorset and Gloucestershire. Kelway himself was probably grandson of John Ke...
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John P. Kennedy

bornactivedied
1795, Oct 251819-18701870, Aug 18
an American novelist and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from July 26, 1852 to March 4, 1853, during the administration of President Millard Fillmore, and as a U.S. Representative from Maryland's 4th congressional district. ...
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Bohdan Khmelnytsky

aka: Chmielricki
bornactivedied
1595 ca1617-16571657, Aug 6
a Ukrainian Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (now part of Ukraine). He led an uprising against the Commonwealth and its magnates (1648–1654) that resulted in the creation of a state led by the Cossacks of Ukraine. In 1654, he concluded the Treaty of Pereyaslav with the Tsardom of R...
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Henry Killigrew [2]

borndied
1528 ca1603
an English diplomat and ambassador in the sixteenth century. He was several times employed by Elizabeth I in Scottish affairs and served as one of the English appointees to the Council of State of the Netherlands in the United Provinces in 1586 and 1587-1589. Mem...
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Henry Killigrew [5]

borndied
1652 ca1712, Nov 9
an English Royal Navy officer and Member of Parliament. He was the son of the playwright Henry Killigrew. He was active in the Royal Navy during 1670s and 1680s, and was promoted to vice-admiral in 1689, but was suspected of Jacobite sympathies and not given a sea command after 1693. He was however appointed a Lord of the Admiralty in that year.
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John Killigrew [1]

borndied
unknown1567
of Arwenack, the first Governor of Pendennis Castle appointed by King Henry VIII, by his wife Elizabeth Trewennard, second daughter of James Trewennard of Trewennard, in the parish of St Erth, Cornwall. Father of CenErr13591


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John Killigrew [2]

bornactivedied
unknown1571-15841584
the 2nd Governor of Pendennis Castle, (1568–1584) appointed by Queen Elizabeth I, as stated on his father's brass in St Budock's Church. He was MP for Lostwithiel in 1563 and twice for the family's pocket borough of Penryn, in 1571 and 1572. Although appointed a commissioner to enquire into piracy, he was himself a notorious pirate and smuggler. He was de...
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William R. King

aka: William Rufus DeVane King
bornactivedied
1786, Apr 71806-18531853, Apr 18
an American politician and diplomat. He was the 13th Vice President of the United States for six weeks in 1853 before his death. Earlier he had been elected as a U.S. Representative from North Carolina and a Senator from Alabama. He also served as Minister to France during the reign of King Louis Philippe I.
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Vilem Kinsky

aka: Vilém Kinský
borndied
15741634, Feb 25
The Kinsky family were members of the Bohemian aristocracy. In 1628 Vilém Kinsky was elevated to the rank of count in the Bohemian nobility when Albrecht von Wallenstein, to which he was connected, was elevated to Duke of Frýdlant. Kinsky was kille...
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Emperor Kokaku

bornactivedied
1771, Sep 231780-18171840, Dec 11
Given name, Tomohito, the 119th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Kokaku's reign spanned the years from 1780 through 1817. Kokaku was very talented and had a zeal for scholarship, reviving festivals at the Iwashimizu and Kamono shrines, and working hard at reviving ceremonies surrounding the Imperial Court.
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Emperor Komei

aka: Osahito
bornactivedied
1831, Jul 221846-18671867, Jan 30
the 121st emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Komei's reign spanned the years from 1846 through 1867. With the arrival of US Commodore Matthew Perry and his "Black Ships" on 8 July 1853, Japan began its transformation into a modern industrial power. The Tokugawa Shogunate, which had controlled military and civil affairs in Jap...
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Amalia von Konigsmarck

aka: Königsmarck
borndied
1663, Aug 201740, Jan 30
a Swedish noble, known as a dilettante artist (painter), amateur actor, and poet. Her known paintings include a self-portrait from 1688, a portrait of her sister Aurora, a portrait of the noble Katarina Ebba Horn from 1698 and a portrait of Sophia Dorothea of Hanover. She participated at the amateur theatre of the royal court encouraged by the queen, Ulrika ...
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Kurt Christoph von Konigsmarck

aka: Conrad , Königsmarck
borndied
1634, Mar 241673, Oct 31
a Dutch-Swedish military leader. Königsmarck received an education despite the war and later joined the Swedish army. He took part in the bloody battle near Warsaw in 1656. In 1658 under Charles X command during the crossing over the frozen Great Belt Bridge to Funen he was caught by the Danes and was left free only after the Peace of Roskilde. In 1663 afte...
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Maria Aurora von Konigsmarck

aka: Königsmarck
borndied
1662, Aug 281728, Feb 16
a Swedish and German noblewoman of Brandenburg extraction and mistress of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. She spent her childhood in the Agathenburg Castle. When her father died in 1673, her mother Maria Christina took the place of head of the family. From 1677, she began to travel with her family and visit the family properties in...
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August von Kotzebue

borndied
1761, Apr 221819, Mar 11
a German dramatist and writer who also worked as a consul in Russia and Germany. In 1817, one of Kotzebue's books was burned during the Wartburg festival. He was murdered in 1819 by Karl Ludwig Sand, a militant member of the Burschenschaften. This murder gave Metternich the pretext to issue the Carlsbad Decrees of 1819, which dissolved the Burschenschaften, ...
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