A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.

Republic of Hawaii

Transitional republic in Hawaii before US annexation, 1894–1898

The Republic of Hawaii was a short-lived one-party state in Hawaiʻi between July 4, 1894, when the Provisional Government of Hawaii had ended, and August 12, 1898, when it became annexed by the United States as an unincorporated and unorganized territory. In 1893, the Committee…