Did the Spanish land in Hawaii hundreds of years ago?

Answer 1

They did...but it wasn't hundreds of years ago. There was a treaty, I think it was in 1863, for commercial exchange with the Hawaiians.
It was James Cook, an English explorer, who discovered the Hawaiian Islands in 1778 and named them the Sandwich Islands.

***Despite Cook's death, these voyages successfully explored great reaches of the Pacific and opened the door for future expeditions from England, France, Spain, and Russia. For years after Cook's death, Hawaiians held ambivalent feelings about him, inquiring of other sea captains whether Cook would ever return and questioning whether Cook had, in revenge, sent the Spaniards to make them slaves and take their country. The natives were especially concerned about how long Cook would stay hostile towards them, blaming his anger for volcanic eruptions in Hawai'i.

Answer 2

Excellent question! Since the Spanish regularly traversed the Pacific from Mexico to Guam to the Philippines, there are many who believe they arrived here in Hawai'i prior to Capt. Cook's appearance in 1778.

Check this out this article (URL below) that makes reference to this contact:
Spaniards and the Sweet Potato in Hawaii and Hawaiian-American Contacts
John F. G. Stokes
American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1932), pp. 594-600
(For full article, go to your local academic (college/university) library to access this article. Tell them it's on JSTOR, and they'll know what to do.)

And another JSTOR article
The Discovery of Hawaii
Reviewed Work(s):
Hawaii's Discovery by Spaniards: Theories Traced and Refuted by John F. G. Stokes
Review author[s]: Klaus Mehnert
Geographical Review, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Jul., 1940), pp. 510-511
doi:10.2307/210252

The following articles are available via the University of Hawai'i Windward Community College Library:

The relations between the Hawaiian Islands and Spanish America in early times / read before the Hawaiian Historical Society, January 28, 1882 [by] W.D. Alexander.
Publisher: [Honolulu : The Society, 1892]
Windward CC: Hawaiian Collection-Circulation Desk Call Number: DU620 .H42 no.1

Traces of Spanish influence in the Hawaiian islands / [letter to Hawaiian Historical Society by] Curtis J. Lyons.
Publisher: Millwood, NY : Krauss Reprint Co., 1978.
Description: p. 25-27 ; 21 cm.
Series: Papers of the Hawaiian Historical Society ; no. 2
Windward CC: Hawaiian Collection-Circulation Desk Call Number: DU620 .H42 no.2

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In the meantime, do a google search with variations of: spanish hawaii pre-cook

And check out the University of Hawai'i online catalog (last URL below).

Have fun!!!!

Answer 3

No, but the Portuguese were all over the Pacific Ocean. They are the ones who destroyed the historical wooden records of the original inhabitants of Rapa Nui or Easter Island as it is called today. The English are the people who ironically introduced disease to the Hawaiian islands and nearly wiped out all of the inhabitants.

Answer 4

NO.
Aunque no hay récords en la tradición histórica de Hawai, los primeros visitantes de Bancos de las Fragatas Francesas probablemente vinieron de las islas cercanas de Hawai del oeste que se conoce era habitado por Polinesios entre 1100 y 1300 DC. Los españoles y portugueses empezaron explorando el Pacífico siguiendo el cruce exitoso de Magallanes en 1520. Los primeros barcos de vela siguieron la Corriente Ecuatorial hacia el oeste y la Corriente del Pacífico Norte hacia el este y las islas de Hawai fueron casi nunca, si, visitadas. Muchos escritores creen que no fue así hasta enero de 1778 en que el Capitán James Cook, un inglés, descubrió la Islas Sánduche (Hawai).

Answer 5

It is believed that Juan Gaetano may have possibly landed there around 1527 but there is no real proof of this. Also, it has been disputed whether he was actually spanish or portuguese.

Answer 6

They may have done - but there is no evidence to say that they did.

Answer 7

It was the tahitians!

Answer 8

i dont think thats possible.