How to Hide an Empire
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This timespace is inspired by the 7th chapter of the book How to Hide an Empire, by Daniel Immerwahr. It tells the life of Puerto Rican nationalist Pedro Albizu Campos in the context of other nationalist movements and U.S. interventions in Latin America.
This timeline has 119 events organized into 5 topics:
- U.S. Administrations
- The U.S. in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Wars
- Life of Pedro Albizu Campos
- World Events
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This timeline has 119 events:
14/06/1916Celebration of the first Flag Day
01/01/1909The "Greater United States" Maps
25/06/19121912 Democratic Party platform
29/08/1916Jones Law
01/01/1905The Clansman, by Thomas Dixon Jr.
08/02/1915The Birth of a Nation
08/01/1918Fourteen Points
31/03/1917Annexation of U.S. Virgin Islands
01/01/1904First Occupation of Dominican Republic
01/06/1906U.S. intervention in the Cananea strike
01/01/1905U.S. troops land in Honduras
01/01/1908U.S. troops intervene in Panama
01/01/1911Hondurean president overthrown
12/06/1901Platt Amendment
15/02/1898Wreckage of the USS Maine
12/09/1891Birth
01/01/1912Scholarship to University of Vermont
01/01/1913Transferred to Harvard
06/03/1954Albizu Called House Attack "Heroism"
09/11/1950Brass Tacks
14/04/1917Communication: Porto Rico and the War
05/05/1917Joins the Army
01/04/1919Journey to the mainland
21/04/1965Death
01/01/1952Speech at the Municipal Meeting in Lares
01/01/1922Married Dr. Laura Meneses
01/01/1924Joins the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
24/10/1935Río Piedras Massacre
23/02/1936Assassination of Colonel Riggs
21/03/1937Ponce Massacre
01/01/1953Pardoned by Luis Muñoz Marín
27/03/1956Suffered a stroke
01/09/1916Admitted to Harvard Law School
01/09/1919Returns to Harvard Law School
01/01/1931Defends the nationalist Luis Velasquez
01/01/1932Runs for the Puerto Rican Senate
07/12/19338,000 workers join the Coloso strike
31/12/1933Central Guánica goes on strike
01/01/1934Peak of the strike
23/02/1934The sugar strike is settled
03/06/1943Released on probation
10/06/1948Public Law 53 or "Gag Law"
22/01/1901Queen Victoria's death
24/05/1916Empire Day becomes an official holiday
01/11/1918Foundation of the Wafd Party, in Egypt
13/04/1919Amritsar Massacre
01/03/1919March First Movement
04/05/1919May Fourth Movement
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