Hawaii's King Kalākaua is said to have wanted to build a Polynesian Empire.

In 1886, the legislature grants the government thirty thousand dollars (seven hundred and seventy-six thousand dollars today) for the formation of a Polynesian confederation.

The King sends representatives to Sāmoa, where Malietoa Laupepa agrees to a confederation between the two kingdoms.

This confederation will not last very long, however, since King Kalākaua will lose power the next year to the Bayonet Constitution, and thus a reformist party will come into power that will end the alliance.