He works as a teacher in the Santa María and Villegas schools.
June: He contributes to La Opinión Nacional in Caracas.
July 1: The first issue of Revista Venezolana (Venezuelan Magazine), which Martí finances and edits, is published. After the second issue of the publication is distributed, General Antonio Guzmán Blanco, President of Venezuela, accuses Martí of interfering in the internal affairs of the country and orders him to leave Venezuela.
August 20: From New York, he writes what is considered to be his first feature article for La Opinión Nacional.
1882
April: Martí’s book of poems Ismaelillo, written in Caracas, is published in New York.
July 15: He writes his first feature article for La Nación of Buenos Aires.
July 20: Martí asks Generals Máximo Gómez and Antonio Maceo to help organize the pro-independence forces and oppose those who seek Cuba’s annexation to the United States.
1883
March: Martí begins to work on La América magazine. The following year, he becomes its editor.
1884
October 10: Martí’s first public speech in New York commemorating the beginning of Cuba’s first War of Independence in 1868.
October 20: Martí writes to General Máximo Gómez explaining that he is withdrawing his support for the revolutionary activities of Generals Gómez and Maceo — whom he had joined as soon as they reached New York — because he is concerned that they are putting personal aims ahead of the interests of the movement.
1885
His novel Amistad funesta (Ill-Fated Friendship) is published (under the name Adelaida Ral) as a serial in El Latino Americano of New York.
1886
May 15: Martí sends in his first feature article to El Partido Liberal of Mexico.
1887
April 16: Martí is appointed Uruguay’s Consul in New York.
October 10: He gives a speech to pro-independence émigrés, one of many on this anniversary of the “Cry of Yara” in 1868.
November 30: He is elected Chairman of the Executive Committee that was set up to organize revolutionary activities by émigrés and Cubans on the island. (Five months later, he acknowledges that no significant advances had been made.)
1889
March 25: The daily New York Evening Post publishes Martí’s “Vindication of Cuba,” a letter replying to two anti-Cuban articles that had appeared in the US press. He includes both of those articles and his reply in a pamphlet, “Cuba y los Estados Unidos” (“Cuba and the United States”), which he translated and for which he wrote the introduction.
July: The first issue of La Edad de Oro (The Golden Age), a magazine for children of the Americas, appears. In the following months, he put out three more issues.
September 28: He writes his first feature article about the Pan-American Congress, which is to begin in Washington on October 2. He warns of the expansionist designs of the United States in Latin America — a theme he develops in his address to the Latin American literary society (“Mother America”) in December.
1890
January: Along with Rafael Serra, Martí founds La Liga (The League) in New York for the education and advancement of black Cuban workers in that city.
July 24: Martí is named Consul of the Argentine Republic in New York. A week later, he also becomes Paraguay’s Consul.
1891
January 1: Martí publishes his important essay “Nuestra América” (“Our America”) in La Revista Ilustrada of New York.
February—April: As Uruguay’s delegate, Martí attends the sessions of the American International Monetary Commission and actively defends the rights of Latin America.
October 11: He resigns as the Consul of the Republics of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
October: His Versos sencillos (Simple Verses) is published.
November 26 and 27: Martí travels to Florida and gives important speeches at meetings of Cuban exiles. He joins the Patriotic Cuban League.
November 28: In the farewell that the exiles in Tampa give him, the resolutions drafted by Martí, which seek to unify the Cuban revolutionary movement, are approved.
1892
January 5: The Cuban Revolutionary Party is formed with aims and statutes which Martí had written and discussed with the leaders of the main organizations in Key West.
March 14: The first issue of Patria, which Martí financed and edited, appears. As the voice of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, its goal is to promote the cause of Cuban independence.
April 8: Martí is elected a delegate of the Cuban Revolutionary Party. He is reelected in each of the next three years.
April 10: The Cuban Revolutionary Party is proclaimed in Key West, Tampa and New York.
July 3: Martí begins the first of many trips to places where the Cuban émigrés live, doing intensive organizational work.
September 11: In La Reforma, Santo Domingo, Martí meets with General Máximo Gómez, who will be commander-in-chief of the war for independence.
1893
May: Martí clarifies the Cuban Revolutionary Party’s position on the armed uprising in Cuba, which the Party had not ordered.
July: He meets General Antonio Maceo in Costa Rica after having conferred with Gómez in Montecristi, Santo Domingo, some days earlier.
1894
April 8: Martí meets with Gómez in New York.
June: He visits Costa Rica and exchanges views with Generals Antonio and José Maceo concerning war preparations.
July—August: He visits Mexico seeking political
