Pedro Albizu Campos is born in Tenerias Village in Poncé, Puerto Rico, September 12, 1891-1893

 Witnesses the U.S. Army march through his town

 Awarded a scholarship to study engineering at the University of Vermont.

Transfers from the University of Vermont to Harvard

World War I. Served in an African-American unit. Volunteer to General Frank McIntyre, was trained by French Military mission, organized NCO school and Home Guard in Puerto Rico. Discharged as First Lieutenant, US Infantry.

Returns to Harvard where he got his law degree as well as degrees in Literature, Philosophy, Chemical Engineering and Military Sciences. Fluent in English, Spanish French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Latin and Greek. The Puerto Rican Mulatto was elected president of Harvard’s Cosmopolitan Club. He dealt with foreign students and lecturers, like Sudas Ghandra Gose (Indian Nationalist leader with Ghandi) and the Hindu poet Rabindranath Tagore. Became interested in the cause of Indian independence, helped to found several centers in Boston for Irish Independence. He would meet Eamon de Valera and later be consulted in the drafting of the constitution of the Irish Free State.

Married Dr. Laura Meneses, a Peruvian he had met at Harvard.

Joins the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico and is elected vice president.

Travels to Santo Domingo, Haiti, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela, seeking solidarity for the Puerto Rican Independence movement.

Elected president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Forms the first Women’s Nationalist Committee, in Vieques.

Caused an international scandal by publishing (in English and Spanish) a manuscript in which a Doctor Cornelius P. Rhoades, admits to killing eight Puerto Rican patients and injecting several others with cancer cells as part of a medical investigation conducted in San Juan’s Presbyterian Hospital for the Rockefeller Institute.

Became lawyer for striking sugar cane workers against the U.S. sugar and utilities monopolies. Warnings were issued against the Nationalist that the U.S. authorities were mounting a campaign to discredit him and the Nationalist party.

Four Nationalists are killed by police under the command of Colonel E. Francis Riggs. (The Rio Piedras Massacre)

Nationalist Hiram Rosado and Elias Beauchamp kill Colonel Riggs. They are arrested, then executed without a trial at the police headquarters. Pedro Albizu Campos proclaims them heroes.

The Boston appeals court upheld the verdict. Pedro Albizu Campos along with other Nationalist leaders were sent to the Federal penitentiary in Atlanta.

After two years of hospital treatment in New York, Pedro Albizu Campos returned to Puerto Rico.

Enactment of Law 53 known as the ley de la mordaza (the law of the muzzle). Law, which criminalizes all acts which favor Puerto Rican Independence.

The Nationalist Insurrection (El Grito de Jayuya). A car load of Nationalist attack the Fortaleza. Four Nationalists were killed, the fifth wounded. A defending policeman died.

Pedro Albizu Campos is jailed. Sentenced to eighty years.

Governor Muñoz Marín granted a pardon.

Four Puerto Rican Nationalist fire into the gallery of the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. Members of Congress are wounded, no one was killed and the shooters did not resist arrest, claiming the action was to attract the worlds attention to their cause. Pedro Albizu Campos’ pardon was revoked. He refused to allow the police to enter his home in San Juan. A shoot out occurs. He is arrested in an unconscious state and jailed.

He suffers a stroke in prison and is transferred to Presbyterian Hospital under police guard.

Out going Governor Luis Muñoz Marín grants a pardon.

Pedro Albizu Campos dies on April 21, in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.