Cuba

1896Antonio Maceo dies in action in San Pedro, Pinar del Río, a province in western Cuba.

1895The last independence war against Spain begins. The whole country went up in arms.

1895José Martí dies in action in a place of eastern Cuba known as Dos Ríos (Two Rivers).

1892Foundation of the Cuban Revolutionary Party for the independence of both Cuba and Puerto Rico, a joint and strategic effort thought out and put together by José Martí

1883The U.S. lays its hands on the first Cuban sugar mill, and from that moment on, investment flow on that particular industry soars. The sugar industry had been reduced to ruins as a result of the independence war.

1880Slavery is officially abolished, though its implementation did go into force until after six years later, after the establishment of the trust.

1879Regardless of Spain’s peacemaking efforts, Cubans embarked on the so-called Small War, just an attempt to resume the independence war, after the Zanjón Pact, led by popular forces.

1878The Baraguá Protest. General Antonio Maceo and other Cuban rebel chiefs didn’t accept peace without independence, nor without slavery abolition, the two fundamental reasons why the Cuban people had started the struggle.