Timeline of women's suffrage in Hawaii

1912

• Around this period, Emma Kaili Metcalf Beckley Nakuina and Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett begin to organize groups for women's suffrage in Hawaii.^[2]
• Carrie Chapman Catt visits Hawaii.^[10]
• National Women's Equal Suffrage Association of Hawaiʻi is formed.^[2]

1915

• Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole brings a women's suffrage resolution for Hawaii to the United States Congress.^[11]

1916

• Prince Kūhiō brings another women's suffrage resolution to the U.S. Congress.^[11]

1917

• Almira Hollander Pitman visits Hawaii and speaks to the territorial legislature on women's suffrage.^[11]
• Prince Kūhiō brings a suffrage bill to the United States Congress so Hawaii can determine their own suffrage rules.^[12]
• June 1: Senator John F. Shafroth brings the suffrage bill to the floor of the Senate.^[12]
• September 15: The bill passes the Senate.^[12]

1918

• April 29: Maud Wood Park, Anna Howard Shaw and Pitman testify on Hawaii suffrage at the House Committee on Woman Suffrage.^[12][13]
• June: The suffrage bill passes into law and now Hawaii can make its own suffrage decisions in the territorial legislature.^[14]

1919

• March 4: Women's suffrage meeting held at the Hawaii Capitol.^[15]
• March 6: Second women's meeting for women's suffrage held at the Capitol.^[16]
• March 19: Suffrage demonstration held in Hilo.^[17]
• March 23: Mass demonstrations held at the House, with around 500 women of "various nationalities, of all age."^[18]

1920

• August 26: The passage of the Nineteenth Amendment applies to territories, giving women the right to vote.^[19][20]
• August 30: The first women's voter registration drive takes place.^[19] The first woman to register was Johanna N. Wilcox.^[21]

• List of Hawaii suffragists
• Women in the Hawaii Territorial Legislature
• Women's suffrage in Hawaii
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

• Basson, Lauren L. (Winter 2005). "Fit for Annexation but Unfit to Vote?: Debating Hawaiian Suffrage Qualifications at the Turn of the Twentieth Century". Social Science History. 29 (4): 575–598. doi:10.1017/S0145553200013316. JSTOR 40267890. S2CID 141954887.
• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
• Yasutake, Rumi (2017). "Re-Franchising Women of Hawaiʻi, 1912–1920". In Choy, Catherine Ceniza; Tzu-Chun Wu, Judy (eds.). Gendering the Trans-Pacific World. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. ISBN 9789004336100.