User:Zleitzen/History timeline

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This page is a Timeline of Cuban history.

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[edit] B.C.

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

[edit] 1400s

  • 1492 28 October Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba.

[edit] 1500s

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

[edit] 1700s

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 1960s

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.