1884
May: José Marti takes
charge ad interim of the Uruguayan Consulate in New York.
October 10: Resignation
from the position of General Consul of Uruguay, to dedicate
himself to the revolutionary activities.
1887
April 16: Working as Vice-consul,
José Martí is designated Consul of Uruguay
in New York, beginning on May, the seventh.
1890
Julio 24: Martí
is designated Consul of Argentina in New York.
Julio 30: Martí
designated Consul of Paraguay in New York.
December 23: Martí
is named as the Uruguayan representative at the American
Monetary International Commission in Washington.
1891
March 30: José
Martí delivers, in English and Spanish, his report
on "Bimetallism" at the American Monetary International
Commission in Washington.
1892
January 5: The Cuban Revolutionary
Party's basis are approved, which include the intention
"to establish relation with friendly peoples tending
to accelerate, with the least sacrifices, the war success
and the foundation of the new Republic that is indispensable
for the American balance".
March 1ro: José
Martí ratifies his resignation from the position
of Consul of Uruguay in New York.
March 5: In the evening
offered by the Hispanic-American Literary Society, Martí
delivers a speech to tribute Venezuela's people.
March 14: "Patria"
newspaper's first edition. José Martí founded
it and directed it.
April 8: Marti's named
Delegate of the Cuban Revolutionary Party.
May 13: Jose Marti addresses
a communication to Party clubs´ presidents in Cayo
Hueso, Florida, emphasizing the objective "to raise
in the foreign countries the respect and affection to the
Revolution, and whichever sources of aid, private or official,
are possible to open".
June 12: Martí
initiates political conversations, organized by the Cubans
of New York, with a conference approaching the relations
between Cuba and the United States.
Julio 18: Tampa's Major
invites José Martí, together with generals
Serafin Sanchez and Carlos Roloff, to visit the city's most
important places.
Julio 19: Marti visits
a cigar factory and speaks to the workers. Days later, he
repeats the same action in Ocala..
Julio 22: The Commerce
and the Authorities of the city offer José Martí
and his comrades a banquet.
Julio 24: José
Martí keeps meeting with San Agustin´s politicians
and Press.
August (?): Martí
travels to Washington and presents a protest , deprived
and unofficial, for the violations of the Party's correspondence;
and tries, successfully, to turn aside the persecution promoted
by the Spanish Minister in the United States.
August 31: Jose Martí
begins a trip through the Antilles.
September 7-9: José
Martí visits the cities of Gonaives, Cabo Haitiano
and Fort Liberte', from where he leaves to Montecristi,
Dominican Republic.
September 18: Martí
arrives to Santo Domingo and meets Henríquez and
Carvajal brothers.
September 19: Ignacio
M. González, Minister of Foreign Relations welcomed
José Martí.
1893
January 5: Martí
informs the New York Counselling Body about the unification
labour made abroad.
April 10: Martí
is re-elected Delegate of the Cuban Revolutionary Party.
April 26: Jose Martí
attends the foundation of the Cuban American League of Philadelphia,
in which Antilleans and Americans are united.
May 25:José Martí
initiates another trip through the Dominican Republic and
Haiti, from where he leaves to Central America.
June: Jose Martí
visits Panama.
Julio 1ro: José
Martí is in San José. He has several interviews
with General Antonio Maceo. Pío Víquez greets
Martí´s arrival.
Julio 7: Martí delivers "The American
future and the powerful foreign influences under which the
Latin American peoples develop and grow" Conference,
at San José's Law School, as a request of the Students
Association.
August: José Martí
values the possibility, not accomplishing it, to travel
to France as a request of Ramon E. Betances.
September 14: The Plenipotentiary
Minister of Argentina in the United States, Cevallos, asks
José Martí to head the translation of the
documents related to the arbitrage of Cleveland's president
in the conflict with Brazil.
October 5: In a reception
in Marti's honour offered in Philadelphia, he speaks to
the Cuban and North American guests of the dangerous ignorance
existing in the United States concerning Latin American
peoples´ virtues and sacrifices.
October 28: During an
evening offered by the Hispanic- American Literary Society,
José Martí delivers a speech to tribute Bolivar.
December 10-24: José
Martí crosses the state of Florida: Tampa, Cayo Hueso,
Ibor City, Ocala and Jacksonville.
1894
January 3: José
Martí receives the first news about the conflict
taking place in Cayo Hueso.
January(?): José
Martí asks the North American lawyer Horatio S. Rubens
to assume the Cuban workers´ defense due to the violation
of the migratory laws and contracts by the Spanish and North
American authorities.
January 27: In "Patria"
newspaper , José Martí publishes an article
in which analyses Cayo Hueso events and denounces the conspiracy
among Spaniards and Americans. A supplement in English,
"To Cuba", is distributed.
March 3-10: Probable
visit to Washington to support Rubens.
April 10: Martí
is re-elected delegate of the Cuban Revolutionary Party.
April 13: The Minister of Foreign Relations of Argentina
sends José Martí the Argentinean government´s
gratitude for having declined his honoraria for serving
to that country's delegation in Washington during the lawsuit
with Brazil.
June 5-18: Martí
remains in Costa Rica.
June 21-22: Martí
remains in Panama.
June 24: José Martí
arrives to Jamaica, from where he goes to New York.
Julio 18: José
Martí arrives to the capital of Mexico.
Julio 23: Martí
requests for one interview with president Porfirio Diaz.
The interview is granted for July 26. Martí could
not attend for being in Veracruz.
Julio 27: José
Martí reiterates his request to general Diaz.
August 1ro. (d): Interview
with the President of Mexico.
November 19: The Vice-president
of Paraguay expresses the government ´s gratitude
for his work as Consul in New York.
1895
January 10-25: José
Martí is immersed in the direction of the manoeuvres
to recover the military materials seized the U.S. government,
right after the failure of the Plan of Fernandina.
January 29: José
Martí, together with Enrique Collazo and José
María Rodríguez, sends out a rising order.
January 30: José
Martí leaves New York.
February 7: Crossing Fortune
Island and Cabo Haitiano, José Martí is received
by general Gómez in Montecristi.
March 25: José
Martí writes the "Manifiesto de Montecristi"
in agreement with general Gómez.
April 1st: José
Martí leaves with other members of the expedition
on a schooner that takes them to Gran Iguana.
April 5: The Consul of
Haiti in Gran Iguana facilitates passports with false names
and the group approach the German freighter "Nordstrand".
April 26: José
Martí signs together with general Gómez a
document ordering to summarily punish all person carrying
an agreement or a proposal of peace, which is send to the
heads and officials.
May 2: Martí interviews with George Eugene
Bryson, The New York Herald newspaper's correspondent. Right
after the interview Martí begins writing the letter-manifesto
sent to the American newspaper.
May 3: José Martí
concludes and signs, together with Máximo Gómez
the document addressed to the Herald's manager.
May 18: Martís
begins writing an unfinished letter, known as his political
testament, to his close friend Manuel Mercado, where he
exposes the intention "of preventing the United States
from spreading through the Antilles as Cuba gains its independence,
and from empowering with that additional strength our lands
of America. All I have done so far, and all I will do, is
for this purpose."
May 19: José Martí
is deadly wounded in Dos Rios, fighting against the forces
of Spanish colonel Jose Ximénez de Sandoval. In New
York, The New York Herald publishes a manifesto sent to
the publisher, after altering the text. According to the
publication, the Cuban leaders said to fight in order to
conquer "the freedom we will then offer to the United
States".
1892-1895 taken from "La
Diplomacia del Delegado", Rolando González Patricio,
Editora Política. Havana, 1998.
