page_title: Kalākaua's 1874–75 state visit to the United States
section_title: Visit to the Northeast (December 23, 1874 – January 9, 1875)
hierarchical_section_title: Kalākaua's 1874–75 state visit to the United States / Visit to the Northeast (December 23, 1874 – January 9, 1875)
caption_attribution_description: English: King Kalakaua, photograph taken in New York City on his return trip to Hawaii in 1874.
context_page_description: King Kalākaua of the Hawaiian Kingdom made a state visit to the United States from November 28, 1874 to February 3, 1875, at the invitation of US President Ulysses S. Grant. The 91-day round-trip journey across the United States began in Honolulu on November 17, 1874 and returned to Hawaii on February 15, 1875. His arrival at San Francisco on November 28 was the beginning of a state visit, making him the first reigning monarch of any nation to set foot in the United States. Upon his arrival in Washington, DC, the United States Congress held the first joint meeting in the body's history, less formal than a joint session, to receive him. President Grant hosted him as honoree of the first state dinner at the White House.
  A career politician who rose through the ranks of chiefs, Kalākaua had previously been to California and Canada with Prince Lot in 1860 as a 23-year-old government bureaucrat, more than a dozen years away from his accession to the throne. The Hawaiian government sent him to Washington, DC this time to seek the elimination of tariffs on the kingdom's sugar exports, after previous attempts had failed.
caption: King Kalakaua, photograph taken in New York City on his return trip to Hawaii in December 1874.
exif: {"Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "GIMP 2.10.2", "Image DateTime": "2018:08:10 22:26:03", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image ExifOffset": "146", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "378", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "584", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard"}