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The Initiation of the Ten Years' War
On this day Carlos M. Céspedes issued the Grito de Yara which started the Ten Years' War in Cuba which was the independence movement that served as the forerunner of the 1895 Insurrection Spanish American War. -
The La Liga Filipina
This was a political group that sought reform in the Spanish administration of the Philippines by peaceful means and was formally launched at a Tondo meeting José Rizal in June of 1892. Rizal's arrest three days later for possessing anti-friar bills and eventual banishment to Dapitan directly led to the demise of the Liga a year or so later. this would lead to many more organisations that wanted the same thing and the U.S. wanted to help. -
Ejército Libertador de Cuba
In Cuba there was another movement for independence issued in the Grito de Baire, declaring Independencia o muerte (Independence or death), when the movement began in was stopped by Spanish authorities the same day. The U.S. would eventually take this into consideration and use it as a basis to fight. -
The Destruction of the U.S.S. Maine
On this date the battleship known as the U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana Harbor and on March, 28 of the same year Report of U.S. Naval Court of Inquiry finds that the U.S.S. Maine explosion was caused by a mine. This would later lead to the U.S. declaring war on spain and all it owned. -
The Treaty of Paris
On this day representatives of Spain and the United States signed the Treaty of Peace in Paris. Spain gave up all rights to Cuba and allowed an independent Cuba. they also ceded Puerto Rico and the island of Guam to the United States, gave up its possessions in the West Indies, and sold the Philippine Islands, and in exchange they received $20 million. -
Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation
President McKinley issued his Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation, ceding the Philippines to the United States, and instructing the American occupying army to use force, as necessary, to impose American sovereignty over the Philippines even before he obtained Senate ratification of the peace treaty with Spain. -
Guam
Guam was placed under the control of the U.S. Department of the Navy and to this day is a U.S. territory. -
End of War
War ended in the Philippines, with more than 4,200 U.S. soldiers, 20,000 Filipino soldiers, and 200,000 Filipino civilians dead.