Welcome to Butigroove Hawaiian Clothing
Butigroove is the only musically driven clothing line in Hawaii. Everyone is born with a natural rhythm keeper --our heart. The red dots symbolize the chambers of our heart....in the womb for months all we hear is our mother's heartbeat..and we are born into a world of rhythm...the seasons, the tides, the beautiful mother nature. so turn it up and boogie down with butigroove! peace.


Hawaiian History

1627 - Spanish sailors visit Hawaii, describe volcanic eruption in ship's log
1794 - Hawaii is placed under the protectorate of Great Britian by Vancouver
1810 - First theatrical performance staged in Hawaii
1815 - Russian soldiers fail attempt to build a fort in Hawaii
1816 - Volcano House opens for tourists on the island of Hawaii, $1 per person for lodging
1826 - James Honnewell establishes C. Brewer & Co. Ltd. trade and service organization
1834 - Honolulu Police Department is founded by King Kamehameha III
1836 - Organization of the Royal Hawaiian Band
1838 - Ground is broken for the building of the Kawaiahao Church
1842 - First House of Representatives is called to order
1842 - First class begins at Punahou, the new private school
1843 - Lord George Paulet seizes Hawaii in the name of England
1846 - Construction of Washington Place (now governor's residence) is completed
1849 - French admiral Legoarant de Tromelin fails in attempted invasion
1852 - First steam-propelled ship is used in interisland service
1853 - Smallpox epidemic takes the lives of over 5,000 Hawaiians
1858 - C. R. Bishop and W. A. Aldrich begin the kingdom's largest financial institution
1859 - Honolulu Gas Company is established
1860 - The Queen's Hospital's first structure's cornerstone is laid in place
1863 - Niihau island purchased by Elizabeth Sinclair, offered by King Kamehameha IV, $10,000
1865 - First imigrant plantation workers depart from Yokohama, Japan for Hawaii
1866 - Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) sails into Honolulu Harbor
1874 - Supreme Court of Hawaii moves into Ali`iolani (where it remains yet today)
1875 - First official regatta held on King Kalakaua's birthday
1877 - King Kalakaua dedicates Kapiolani Park as a focal point of outdoor recreation
1878 - First telephone is in operation, two years after Alexander Graham Bell's patent
1879 - First locomotive-train pulled its first load of sugarcane on Maui
1882 - The king and queen move into Iolani Palace
1883 - Kamehameha Statue is unveiled
1885 - First polo match is played in Hawaii at Kohala on the Big Island
1886 - Electricity arrives as five arc lamps are strung around Iolani Palace
1886 - Great Chinatown Fire; losses exceeded $1,455,000
1887 - Kamehameha Schools are founded in memory of Puahi by husband Charles Reed Bishop
1889 - Father Damien of Molokai's Kalaupapa leprosy settlement dies
1889 - Queen Liliuokalani wrote her famous song, "Aloha Oe"
1889 - Bishop Museum's original structure is completed
1889 - Robert Louis Stevenson, famous author, arrives in Hawaii
1893 - End of the Hawaiian Monarchy and the beginning of Sanford B. Dole's "Republic"
1896 - Moana Hotel ("Grand Old Lady" of Waikiki/now the Sheraton Moana Surfrider) is planned
1898 - Hawaii's state flag is replaced by the United States' "Stars and Stripes"
1900 - One pound of sugar costs 7 cents
1901 - James "Jim" Drummond Dole's first plants pineapple in Wahiawa's countryside
1901 - Honolulu Rapid Transit's inaugural run of electric streetcars
1903 - Joint Tourism Committee is created to promote the Territory to the world (now the HVCB)
1905 - Only 80 automobiles are registered on the island of Oahu
1910 - First airplane flight in Hawaii
1912 - Duke Kahanamoku participates at the Olympics in Stockholm
1916 - The brothel "Iwilei Stockade" is shut down
1917 - Charlie Chaplin visits Hawaii and speaks at the Honolulu Ad Club's luncheon
1920 - Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, visits the Islands
1922 - Honolulu Musum of Art is chartered
1923 - Hawaiian Dredging Co. begins dredging of the Ala Wai Canal
1924 - Work begins on the structural foundation of Aloha Tower
1927 - Group of women found the organization "Outdoor Circle" and end billboard advertising
1927 - Inaugural Lei Day
1927 - The Royal Hawaiian Hotel opens for business
1929 - First interisland flight by Stanley C. Kennendy in an amphibious plane
1934 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first visit to Hawaii
1935 - First 2,270-mile trans-Pacific flight from San Francisco to Hawaii takes 21 1/2 hours
1935 - 5-year-old Shirley Temple visits Hawaii
1935 - "Hawaii Calls" radio program enters the hearts and living rooms of America
1941 - Japanese naval air forces attack Pearl Harbor
1941 - A lone Japanese pilot crash lands on Niihau and is killed after he shoots a Hawaiian
1941 - First land-based interisland flights
1946 - Great tsunami hits Hilo, killing over 100 people and causing $25 million damage
1956 - Financing is settled and Ala Moana Shopping Center opens
1995 - http://www.Hawaiian.com goes online with the message of Live Aloha!