Spain cedes Cuba and Puerto Rico to the USA

Historical Context Note

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4.1.3: Hispanic Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
Vol. editors: Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Domains

Colonialism and colonisation

Dates

Date of occurrence 1899-04-11

Places

Cuba (Location)
Puerto Rico (Location)
Spain (Involved)
United States (Involved)

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Following defeats in Cuba and the Philippines, Spain signed a peace treaty with the US in Paris in December 1898. The treaty came into force on the 11th of April, 1899, and in it Spain ceded the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico to the US and relinquished sovereignty over Cuba.

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