The Cuban War of Independence was the last of Cuba's uprisings against Spanish colonial rule. It was launched by revolutionaries organised by the poet and writer Jose Marti, who died in the early fighting, and led militarily by veterans such as Maximo Gomez and Antonio Maceo. The Spanish general Valeriano Weyler tried to crush the rebels by forcing civilians into fortified towns, a policy that caused terrible suffering and shocked American opinion. After the battleship USS Maine exploded in Havana harbour in 1898, the United States intervened, and the conflict became the Spanish-American War. Spain lost Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines in the Treaty of Paris, and Cuba became formally independent in 1902 under American influence.
Before and after
- December 1894Construction of Reichstag
- from December 1894 to September 1895Second Madagascar expedition
- from 15 December 1894 to 23 October 1896First Italo-Ethiopian War
- 1895Founding of Yerkes Observatory
- from 1895 to 1898Cuban War of Independence
- 1895Founding of London School of Economics and Political Science
- 1895Founding of West Ham United F.C.
- from 1895 to 1958Founding of French West Africa
- from 17 April 1895 to 1 January 1945Taiwan under Japanese rule
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The era
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