Kamehameha invites Keōua to meet with him when the Puʻukoholā Heiau is completed in 1791.

Keōua may have been dispirited by his recent losses.

He may have mutilated himself before landing so as to make himself an imperfect sacrificial victim.

One of Kamehameha's chiefs throws a spear at him as he steps on shore.

He dodged it, by some accounts, but was then cut down by musket fire.

Keōua's bodyguards, caught by surprise, are killed.

Kamehameha, with Keōua dead and his supporters captured or slain, becomes King of Hawaiʻi island.