Cuban War of Independence

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1895–1898 · Eastern Cuba · Americas · War

José Martí's rising ends up drawing in the United States

Cuban War of Independence — Wikimedia Commons

The rising against Spain began in February 1895; its inspiration, the poet José Martí, was killed in one of the first clashes. The Spanish general Weyler herded peasants into 'reconcentration' camps where tens of thousands died, and the explosion of USS Maine in Havana in 1898 brought the United States into the war.

State: Cuban Nationalists

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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)

Whole world

1914–1918 World War I — 19 years later
1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 23 years later
1920 League of Nations founded — 25 years later

Europe

1886 Benz's first automobile — 9 years earlier
1889 Eiffel Tower — 6 years earlier
1895 Discovery of X-rays — same year
1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 10 years later
1919 Treaty of Versailles — 24 years later

Eastern Europe & Russia

1895 Popov's radio receiver — same year
1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 10 years later
1908 Tunguska event — 13 years later
1917 October Revolution — 22 years later
1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 22 years later

Middle East

1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 10 years later
1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 13 years later
1908 Young Turk Revolution — 13 years later
1915–1917 Armenian genocide — 20 years later
1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 21 years later

Africa

1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 9 years earlier
1897 The British sack Benin City — 2 years later
1898 Battle of Omdurman — 3 years later
1899–1902 Second Boer War — 4 years later
1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 9 years later

Asia

1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 12 years earlier
1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 10 years earlier
1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — 1 year earlier
1894 Yersin identifies the plague bacterium — 1 year earlier
1896–1898 Philippine Revolution — 1 year later

Oceania

1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 2 years earlier
1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 2 years earlier
1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 16 years later
1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 17 years later

Alive at the time

Queen Victoria (aged 76)
Leo Tolstoy (aged 67)
Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 61)
Thomas Edison (aged 48)
Nikola Tesla (aged 39)
Marie Curie (aged 28)
Mahatma Gandhi (aged 26)
Vladimir Lenin (aged 25)
Ernest Rutherford (aged 24)
Winston Churchill (aged 21)