User:Zleitzen/History timeline

This page is a Timeline of Cuban history.

B.C.

 * about 3500 B.C.   First humans come to Cuba.

1400s

 * 1492 28 October   Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba.

1500s

 * 1510   The conquest of Cuba begins.
 * 1514   Havana founded.

1700s

 * 1762 30 July  British troops occupy Havana during Seven Years War.

1800s

 * 1844   An uprising of black slaves brutally suppressed.
 * 1868 10 October Revolutionaries under the leadership of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes proclaims Cuban independence.
 * 1878 8 February Pact of Zanjón ends Ten Years' War and ends uprising.
 * 1879 August  A second uprising ("The Little War"), engineered by Calixto García, begins but is quelled by superior Spanish forces in autumn 1880
 * 1895 23 February  Mounting discontent culminated in a resumption of the Cuban revolution, under the leadership of the writer and patriot José Martí and General Máximo Gómez y Báez
 * 1898 March 17 U.S. Senator, and former War Secretary Redfield Proctor protests against Spanish controlled concentration camps
 * 1898 10 December Treaty of Peace in Paris ends the Spanish-American War by which Spain relinquished sovereignty over Cuba.
 * 1899 1 January The Spanish colonial government withdraw and the last captain General Alfonso Jimenez Castellano hands over power to the North American Military Governor, General John R. Brook.

1900s

 * 1902 20 May The Cuban republic is instituted under the presidency of Tomás Estrada Palma.
 * 1917 7 April Cuba enters World War I on the side of the Allies.
 * 1933 4 September At Campo Columbia, noncommissioned officers unexpectedly arrest their superiors and take over command of the island's military forces. The "Sergeants' Revolt" had been skillfully organized by Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar.
 * 1935 8 May Leading radical politician Antonio Guiteras is assassinated.
 * 1941 December Cuban government declare war on Germany, Japan, and Italy.

1950s

 * 1952 March Former president Batista, supported by the army, seizes power.
 * 1953 26 July Some 160 revolutionaries under the command of Fidel Castro launches an insurrectionary attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba.
 * 1956 2 December Castro, with some 80 insurgents, return to Cuba.
 * 1958 17 March Castro calls for a general revolt.
 * 1959 1 January President Batista resignes and flees the country.
 * 1959 February Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba.

1960s

 * 1961 April 15- Bay of Pigs
 * 1961 US Trade embargo on Cuba
 * 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
 * 1962 Cuba expelled from the OAS.

1970s

 * 1972 Cuba becomes a member of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON).
 * 1975 July OAS lift the trade embargo and other sanctions.
 * 1975 The Soviet Union engages in a massive airlift of Cuban forces into Angola.
 * 1977 May 50 Cuban military personnel sent to Ethiopia.

1980s

 * 1983 25 October United States invade the island of Grenada and also clash with Cuban troops.
 * 1984 Cuba reduce its troop strength in Ethiopia to approximately 3,000 from 12,000
 * 1989 17 September The last Cuban troops leave Ethiopia.

1990s

 * 1991 May Cuba removed its troops from Angola.
 * 1993 All of the Soviet troops sent to Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis withdraw.
 * 1996 February Cuban authorities arrest or detain at least 150 dissidents, marking the most widespread crackdown on opposition groups in the country since the early 1960s.