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1526 |
Slaves were shipped from Africa |
1762 |
Havana was captured by a British force led by Admiral George Pocock and Lord Albemarle. |
1763 |
Treaty of Paris: Havana returned to Spain |
1868 |
1868-1878: Ten Years War of independence |
1886 |
Slavery was abolished |
1895 |
1895-1898: Second war of independence lead by Jose Marti |
1895 |
US declares war on Spain |
1898 |
US defeat Spain all Spanish claims to Cuba are relinquished and cedes it to the US. |
1902 |
Cuba becomes independent but the Platt Amendment keeps Cuba under US protection which retains the right to intervene in internal affairs of Cuba |
1906 |
1906-1909: President Estrada resigns and the US occupies Cuban territory following a rebellion led by Jose Miguel Gomez |
1909 |
Jose Miguel Gomez elected president |
1912 |
Black protests against discrimination and US forces return to Cuba |
1924 |
Gerado Machado establishes a dictatorship |
1925 |
Socialist Party founded leading to Cuban Communist |
1933 |
Gerado Machado overthrown in a coup led by Sergeant Fulgencio Batista. |
1934 |
US relinquishes right to intervene in internal affairs of Cuba |
1944 |
Fulgencio Batista retires and Ramon Gray San Martin becomes President of Cuba |
1952 |
Fulgencio Batista takes power again |
1953 |
Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful revolution against Batista |
1956 |
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara lead the revolution |
1958 |
US withdraws military aid to Fulgencio Batista |
1959 |
January 1: Fidel Castro leads the Communist revolution with Che Guevara and the rebel army overthrows President Fulgencio Batista |
1960 |
December 19: Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their Communist policies. A Cuban Communist State was set up with Russian backing. Fidel Castro allows the USSR to deploy nuclear missiles on the island |
1961 |
1962 |
1972 |
Cuba becomes a member of the Soviet based Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. |
1976 |
Fidel Castro elected president. |
1970's |
Cuba sends troops to intervene in African disputes |
1988 |
Cuba withdraws its troops from Angola following an agreement with South Africa. |
1991 |
Collapse of the USSR |
1996 |
US trade embargo |
2006 |
July: President Fidel Castro undergoes surgery and temporarily hands over control of the government to his brother, Raul. |
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