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January 2LUnited States battleshir
Maine ordered to Havana on a peaceful
mission.
February 1O-De LONE, Spanish minister
| reca lied for unwarranted personalities re-
hectng on President Mckinley.
FEBRUARY 1.-THE UNITED STATES
BATTLE SHIP MAINE BLOWN UP IN
HAVANA HARBOR, AND 266 LIVES
LOST
February 17-United States board. of in
ouiry on the loss of the Maine appointed.
March 9-Emergency bill. $5o.coo,coo. for
United States coast defense passed.
March 2S-The president sends message
with the Maine report to congress.
April 9-General Fitzhugh Lee and other
consuls leave Havana.
April 1.-THE president sends message
to congress recommending armed interven-
ton in Cuba.
April 15-The war department orders reg
ular troops to the coast.
April 1.-the Intervention resolutions
passed by the senate.
April le-The house passes the interven-
ton resolutions.
April 19-The president prepares an I'LL
timatum to Spain. demanding the evacua-
ton of Cuba within three days.
April 2O-The Cuban resolutions signed by
the president.
April 20-Spansh minister, Polo Ber-
nabe, asks for his passports.
April 21-The United States minister,
General Woodford, is given his passports
in Madrid.
APRIL 2-sPAIN'S SEVERANCE OF
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS HELD TO
BE A DECLARATION OF WAR.
April 22-North Atlantic squadron sails
to blockade Cuban ports.
April 22-First shot fired, when the United
States gunboat Nashville captured the
Spanish coast trader Buena Ventura.
April 22-President's proclamation to all
nations declaring the blockade of Cuban
ports.
April 23-The presidents call issued for
l25 600 volunteers.
April 26-President's proclamation issues
on Spa nish vessels in United States ports.
April 27-Asiatic squadron sails from Mrs
bay (having received orders from Hong
Kong by great Britain in compliance with
neutrality law to meet the Spanish fleet
at the Philippine islands.
April 27-United States cruisers New
York, Cincinnati and monitor Puritan 81
lence the batteries at MatanZas.
April 2S-Spanish forts at Cabanas de-
molshed by the guns of the flagship New
York.
MAY 1-SPANISH FLEET UNDER AID
MIRAL MONTIJO DEFEATED AND
DESTROYED BY UNITED STATES
COMMANDING.
May 2-Congress appropriated $35, 72O 945
for the army of invasion.
May NAVAL bill for thirty-five new war
ships sent to the president for signature.
May 7-Commodore Dewey's report on
battle of Manila received. Eleven Spanish
warships destroyed and no Americans
killed.
May 1.-The president. in the name of the
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dore Dewey.
May 9-Commodore Dewey is made rear
admiral.
May 11-Ensign Bagley and four men on
gunboat Winsow killed in engagement off
Cardenas.
May l2-Admiral SIMPSONS fleet shells
forts and land batteries at San Juan, Porto
Rico.
May 17-United States establishes CEN
sorship on press dispatches.
May lS-A new Spanish cabinet is formed.
May O-Secretary Long officially con-
firms report of Spanish fleet off Santiago de
Cuba.
May 21-Chareston sails with first relief
supplies for Admiral Dewey.
May 22-First relief expedition sails for
Manila.
JUNE 3-HOBSON AND HIS MEN
SINK THE DISMANTLED COLLIER
MERRIMAC IN SANTIAGO HARBOR.
June 4-The senate passed the war reve-
nue. bill.
June 4-Captain Gridley of "Olympia"
died in Kobe. Japan, on his way home.
June 6-American marines land at Aqua
dores and Baiquiri.
June 6-Second bombardment of the forts
at Santiago.
June 6-Insurgents take outer city of Ma
Mia and $4,000 Spanish prisoners.
June 7-United States fleet bombards and
destroys the Notifications at Camenera.
June 1.-THE Monterey sails from San
Francisco to Manila.
June 9-Fortifications at Guantanamo bay
destroyed.
June 11-American marines land at Guam
tanamo.
June 12-First battle of Guantanamo.
Four American marines killed.