| Born |
September
12, 1924 in Bafatá (Guiné-Bissau) of Cape Verdean father
Juvenal Cabral and Guinean mother Iva Pinhel Évora |
| Studied |
in
the licéu in São Vicente, Cape Verde Islands. |
| 1945 |
At age of
21, in Lisbon to study at the "Instituto Superior de
Agronomia". |
| 1951
|
Helps to
create the "Centro de Estudos Africanos" in Lisbon.
Enginheiro Agrónomo ( Agrononism, Agronomy engineer) by
profession in Guiné. |
| 1956 |
September
19 - Founded the PAIGC in
Bissau, with Luís Cabral, Aristides Pereira, Rafael Barbosa
and two other compatriots. The armed struggle only began in
1963! This same year, while in Angola, Cabral is cofounder
of the MPLA (Movimento Popular Libertação de Angola) with
Dr. Agostinho Neto and others |
| 1960
|
Publishes in
English in London under the pseudonym Abel Djassi "Factos
acerca das colónias Africanas de Portugal"
|
| 1961 |
April - "Conferência das
Organizações Nacionalistas das colonias Portuguesas" (CONCP),
created in Casablanca, Moroco |
| 1962 |
June
- PAIGC presents to the United
Nations "O povo da Guiné perante as Nações Unidas"
|
| 1964 |
1st congress
of the PAIGC in Cassaca, in the liberated regions of the
south of Guiné |
| 1965 |
Amilcar
Cabral write "As palavras da Ordem" a document delineating
the norms to be followed by the party in the revolutionary
struggle and in all its activities. |
| 1968
and 1969 |
Addresses
the Comission of Human Rights at the UN, relating the
suffering of the people of CV and Guine under the colonial
Portuguese regime. |
| 1969 |
Published in
London a collection of texts and speeches of Amilcar Cabral,
organized by Richard Handyside. |
| 1970 |
January - Published the
book "Le pouvoir des armes" (O poder das armas) in France.
|
| 1970 |
February
- Invited to Syracuse
University (USA) to participate in a conference honoring the
memory of Dr. Eduardo Mondlane, former president of FRELIMO,
whom had been assassinated in February 1969. The theme of
the conference was "National and Cultural Liberation" |
| 1970 |
February
- Conference in Rome of
"Solidarity for the people of the Portuguese colonies". Pope
Paulo VI receives the leaders of the parties for the
liberation of the colonies, namely, MPLA, FRELIMO and PAIGC!
|
| 1971 |
April
- At a Press Conference in
Stockholm, Cabral denounces the situation of hunger in Cape
Verde and the continued complacency and inaction of the
colonial Portuguese regime. |
| 1972 |
February
- Cabral speaks at the 163rd session of the Security Council
of the UN and asks the UN to send a delegation of observers
to Cape Verde and Guiné to document first hand the reality
of the colonies! |
| 1972 |
October
- During the 4th Commission of the General Assembly of the
UN, in the name of the peoples of Guiné and Cape Verde,
Cabral is the first representative of a people involved in
armed struggle to be given the priviledge of addressing the
assembly as an observer. |
| 1973 |
January
20th, Amilcar Cabral is
assassinated in Conakry. |
|
Cabral is survived by his three children
from his second wife, Cape Verdean Ana Maria Cabral.
His first wife was Portuguese, Maria Helena Rodrigues. |
