LEONARD PERCIVAL HOWELL…. TIMELINE

1887         AUGUST 17              BIRTH OF MARCUS GARVEY, ST ANN BAY JAMAICA

1889        SEPTEMBER 15      BIRTH OF CLAUDE MCKAY A PROMINENT JAMAICAN IN THE

HARLEM RENAISSANCE

 

1898        JUNE 16                  BIRTH OF LEONARD PERCIVAL HOWELL AT MAY CRAWLE,

CLARENDON JAMAICA

1913         OCTOBER 10        OPENING OF THE PANAMA CANAL

1914                                          WORLD WAR ONE

1915         OCTOBER:            LP HOWELL WITNESSED THE MURDER OF HIS NEIGHBOR RODNEY

BY HER COMMON LAW HUSBAND.  HIS PARENTS REFUSED TO LET

HIM TESTIFY. HE  IS SENT OVERSEAS

HOWELL LEAVES FOR PANAMA ABOARD A

BANANA BOAT

1917       APRIL 6,                 USA ENTERS THE WAR ON THE SIDE OF THE ALLIES

 

1918                                        LP HOWELL EMBARKS AS A COOK ON THE US MARINE TRANSPORT

OCTOBER 28,      HIS FIRST VOYAGE TO NY ABOARD THE SS METAPAN

 

1920                                      SS LOGAN: SAN-FRANCISCO, MOURMANSK, ARKHANGELSK,

VLADIVOSTOK, MANILLE,  TRIESTE, NAPLE, NY

 

GANDHI DEVELOPS THE CONCEPT OF NON COOPERATION LARGELY

SUPPORTER BY THE BLACK HARLEM POPUATION

1922                                       LP HOWELL MARRIES MYRA WILSON FROM PANAMA AND OF

.                                              JAMAICAN ORIGIN.

 

1923        JUNE                    LP HOWELL QUITS THE MERCHANT MARINES

JUNE 18,             MARCUS GARVEY IS IMPRISONED

 

1924       MAY 19,                LP HOWELL APPLIES FR US CITIZENSHIP

1925       JANUARY 25,     MYRA HOWELL ARRIVES IN NY.

 

1927    NOVEMBER 9,     MARCUS GARVEY IS DEPORTED TO JAMAICA FROM PRISON

 

1928                                      LP HOWELL OPENS A TEA ROOM IN HARLEM

1929      AUGUST                GREAT DEPRESSION BEGINS IN USA

 

OCTOBER            MARCUS GARVEY IS ELECTED A COUNCILLOR IN MUNICIPAL

ELECTIONS  KINGSTON ST.  ANDREW CORPORATION

OCTOBER            WALL STREET CRASH OF 1929 ALSO KNOWN AS BLACK TUESDAY AND

THE STOCK MARKET CRASH OF 1929

 

1930      NOVEMBER 2,     CORONATIONS OF RAS TAFARI AND QUEEN MENEN

1932       NOVEMBER 18,   LP HOWELL RETURNS TO JAMAICA AFTER HIS US CITIZENSHIP

IS DENIED.

1933       JANUARY TO       LP HOWELL AT ST THOMAS ON THE PLANTATIONS WITH HIS MESSAGE

JULY 1934             OF RAS TAFARI AS THE CHRIST RETURNED

 

1934       13-15 MARCH     LP HOWELL AND BRO HINES AND MANY BRETHEREN ON TRIAL FOR

SEDITION IN ST THOMAS   SENT TO JAIL FOR 2 YRS HARD LABOR

23          MARCH                 LP HOWELL REC’D ALLEGED SEDITIOUS LITERATURE FROM GEORGE

PADMORE

AUGUST               MARCUS GARVEY CONVENES A UNIA CONVENTION IN KINGSTON

 

1935      OCTOBER             MUSSOLINI INVADES ETHIOPIA

APRIL                    GARVEY LEAVE JAMAICA FOR ENGLAND

 

1936     JUNE 20,                FOUNDATION OF THE KINGS UNION . LP HOWELL MARRIES TENETH

BENT

1937     JANUARY 11,        POLICE RAID ON RASTAFARI AT ST THOMAS MANY BRETHEREN

ARRESTED

OCTOBER 22,       LP HOWELL ARRESTED AFTER AN ALTERCATION WITH A POLITICIAN

1938     JANUARY             SERGE ISLAND REBELLION AND POLITICAL REVOLUTION IN JAMAICA

FEBRUARY 15 – LP HOWELL LOCKED UP AT BELLEVUE

DECEMBER 20

1939       APRIL 4,             CREATION OF THE ETHIOPIAN SALVATION SOCIETY

APRIL:                CREATION OF PINNACLE

1940       DECEMBER      ST CATHERINE PARISH COUNCIL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT USE THE

POOR HEALTH OF EX SLAVES UNDER THE GUISE OF AN EPIDEMIC AT

PINNACLE AS REASON TO HARASS RASTAFARI AT THE CAMP

1941       JULY 14,              FIRST RAID AT PINNACLE 72 MEMBERS ARRESTED

 

JULY 24,              LP HOWEL IS ARRESTED AND SENTENCED TO 2 YEARS IN PRISON

 

1943       APRIL                  LP HOWELL RETURNS TO PINNACLE FROM PRISON

DECEMBER 23     DEATH OF MRS. TENETH BENT HOWELL. LEONARD HOWELL IS ACCUSED AND

ARRESTED

1944        APRIL 6,              LP HOWELL FREED OF ALL CHARGES

 

1945        FEBRUARY 6,      BIRTH OF BOB MARLEY

OCTOBER 12,    ALBERT CHAN DIES. WILL ORDERS THEIR EXPULSION FROM PINNACLE.

 

1947                                     FOUNDATION OF COUNT OSSIE AND MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI

1948       JANUARY 8,        LP HOWELL ARRESTED AND SENTENCED TO 6 MONTHS IN PRISON.

 

1951       JANUARY 18,      LP HOWELL IS ARRESTED FOR GANGA AND SENTENCED TO 2 YEARS IN PRISON

 

1954       APRIL                    LP HOWELL IS ARRESTED FOR THE ILLEGAL PRACTICE OF MEDICINE

MAY                      LP HOWELL TWO ADOLESCENT SONS ARRESTED UNDER FALSE PRETENSES

MAY 27,               BIG GANGA RAID AT PINNACLE MANY ARRESTED AND PROPERTY SEIZED

 

1957                                        BOB MARLEY ARRIVES IN TRENCH TOWN AT AGE 12

 

1958                                        BIG RAID AT PINNACLE THE VILLAGE N HOUSES WERE BURNT TO THE

GROUND. MEMBERS MOVED TO THE SURROUDING HILLS OF PINNACLE.

 

1959                                     CLAUDIUS HENRY A POPULAR BACK TO AFRICA LEADER IS ARRESTED FOR

THE POSSESSION OF ARMS.

NOVEMBER           LP HOWELL PERSECUTED AND ARRESTED FOR GANGA

 

1960       JUNE                       LP HOWELL ARRESTED FOR GANGA AT TREDEGAR PARK

LP HOWELL IS INTERNED AT BELLEVUE

* UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES STUDY RASTAFARI AT THE REQUEST OF

MORTIMER PLANNO*

 

1961                                       MISSION TO ETHIOPIA BRO DOULAS MAC, BRO FILMORE ALAVARANA AND

MORTIMER PLANNO

 

1962                                        INDEPENDENCE IN JAMAICA. BUSTAMANTE IS THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER.

 

1963                                         CORAL GARDENS MASSARE OF RASTAFARI IN JAMAICA ON THE ORDERS

OF PRIME MINISTER ALEXANDER BUSTAMANTE BRING THEM IN DEAD OR

ALIVE OR CARRY THEM TO BOGUE CEMETRY FAMOUS QUOTE

1966                                          VISIT OF EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE I TO JAMAICA

BACK O’ WALL RAZED APPROXIMATELY 4 MONTHS AFTER THE EMPEROR’S

VISIT.

1972                                             ELECTION OF PRIME MINISTER MICHAEL MANLEY A SOCIALIST

1975       AUGUST 27                TRANSITION OF THE EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE I

1978        MARCH                      LP HOWELL ARRESTED FOR GANGA

1979         MAY                          GUNMEN TERRORIZE RASTAS AT PINNACLE

 

1980                                            MICHAEL MANLEY IS REPLACED BY EDWARD SEAGA AS PRIME MINISTER

CIA ACTIVE IN JAMAICA.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF LP HOWELL AT PINNACLE BY FOUR MEN

GRAVELY BATTERED AND WOUNDED SLASHED IN BOTH PALMS..

LP HOWELL RECUPERATES AT THE SHERATON CARED FOR BY HIS

SECRETARY MRS.GERTUDE CAMPBELL AND HER GRANDDAUGHTER LOVE.

1981      MARCH                          TRANSITION OF LP HOWELL

MAY                               TRANSITION OF BOB MARLEY

1983                                               PROF ROBERT HILL WRITES THE FIRST ARTICLE ABOUT LP HOWELL IN

THE JAMAICA JOURNAL.