<Li> October 6 - After Conservative Party Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo is assassinated on August 8, Liberal Party leader Práxedes Mateo Sagasta forms a government to become Prime Minister of Spain . Sagasta recalls Weyler (replacing him with General Ramón Blanco y Erenas), offers home rule to the Cubans, and closes the concentration camps . Confident of victory, the Cuban rebels reject the offer of home rule . </Li> <Ul> <Li> January 11 - Anti-independence riots, incited by Spanish Army officers, occur in Havana, the capital of Cuba . Extensive property damage occurs as rioters demand that Spain stop giving concessions to the Cuban rebels . </Li> <Li> January 25 - The United States Navy battleship USS Maine arrives at Havana Harbor from Key West, Florida . President McKinley says the ship is on a good - will visit, but the ship is there as a show of strength to ensure American property and lives are not threatened should additional rioting occur . </Li> </Ul> <Li> January 11 - Anti-independence riots, incited by Spanish Army officers, occur in Havana, the capital of Cuba . Extensive property damage occurs as rioters demand that Spain stop giving concessions to the Cuban rebels . </Li> <Li> January 25 - The United States Navy battleship USS Maine arrives at Havana Harbor from Key West, Florida . President McKinley says the ship is on a good - will visit, but the ship is there as a show of strength to ensure American property and lives are not threatened should additional rioting occur . </Li>

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