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1895
Cuban nationalists revolt against Spanish rule
1896
Spanish General Weyler (the "Butcher") comes to Cuba
1897
Spain recalls Weyler
1898
USS Maine sent to Cuba
February 9, 1898
Hearst publishes Dupuy Du Lome’s letter insulting McKinley
February 15, 1898
Sinking of the USS Maine
February 25, 1898
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt cables Commodore Dewey With plan: Attack The Philippines if war with Spain breaks out
April 11, 1898
McKinley approves war with Spain
April 24, 1898
Spain declares war on the US
April 25, 1898
US declares war on Spain
May 1, 1898
Battle of Manila Bay (Philippines)
May 1898
Passage of the Teller Amendment
July 1, 1898
San Juan Hill taken by "Rough Riders"
July 3, 1898
Battle Of Santiago Spain’s Caribbean fleet destroyed
July 7, 1898
Hawaii annexed
July 17, 1898
City of Santiago Surrenders to General William Shafter
August 12, 1898
Spain signs armistice
August 13, 1898
US troops capture Manila
December 10, 1898
Treaty of Paris signed; US annexes Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines
January 23, 1899
Philippines declares itself an independent republic led by Emilio Aguinaldo; the self-declared Filipino government fights a guerilla war against the US that lasts far longer than the Spanish-American War itself
February 6, 1899
The Treaty of Paris passes in the US Senate
1900
Foraker Act allows some self-government in Puerto Rico
1901
Supreme Court Insular cases
March 1901
Emilio Auginaldo captured
1901
Platt Amendment
1902
US withdraws from Cuba
1917
Puerto Ricans given US citizenship
