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Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo Issues Grito de Yara
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Ten Years' War
The Ten Years' War (Spanish: Guerra de los Diez Años) (1868–1878), also known as the Great War and the War of '68, began on October 10, 1868 when sugar mill owner Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and his followers proclaimed Cuba's independence from Spain. It was the first of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Little War (1879–1880) and the Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898). The final three months of the last conflict escalated to become the Spanish–Americ -
Spain Abolish Slavery
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US Occupation
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José Julián Martí Pérez Dies In Battle
José Julián Martí Pérez (January 28, 1853 – May 19, 1895) was a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature. In his short life he was a poet, an essayist, a journalist, a revolutionary philosopher, a translator, a professor, a publisher, and a political theorist. He was also a part of the Cuban Freemasons. -
Battleship Maine Blows Up
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Spanish–American War
The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence. American attacks on Spain's Pacific possessions led to involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately to the Philippine-American War.[6] -
Platt Amendment Issued By US Congress
The Platt Amendment of 1901 was an amendment to a joint resolution of the United States Congress, replacing the earlier Teller Amendment.[1] It stipulated the conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish-American War and defined the terms of Cuban-U.S. relations until the 1934 Treaty of Relations. The Amendment ensured U.S. involvement in Cuban affairs and gave legal standing (in U.S law) to U.S. claims to certain territories on the island inc -
Cuba Gains Sovereignty/Tomás Estrada Palma Elected
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Cuba Under Direct US Rule
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US Interferes Militarily Four TImes
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Sugar Prices Starts to Plummet
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Gerardo Machado (25-33)
Gerardo Machado y Morales (September 28, 1871, Camajuaní – March 29, 1939, Miami Beach, Florida) was President of Cuba (1925–1933) and a general of the Cuban War of Independence. He was born in the central Province of Las Villas (now Villa Clara) and was from a poor background.
President of Cuba
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Sergent Batista Leads Revolt Against Cespedes
In 1933, Batista led an uprising called the Revolt of the Sergeants, as part of the coup that overthrew the government of Gerardo Machado.[15] Machado was succeeded by Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada, who lacked a political coalition that could sustain him and was soon replaced.
A short-lived five-member presidency, known as the Pentarchy of 1933, was established. It included a representative from each anti-Machado faction. Batista was not a member, but controlled Cuba's armed forces. -
Batista Overthrows Dr. Ramón Grau
Grau remained president for just over 100 days before Batista, conspiring with the U.S. envoy Sumner Welles, forced him to resign in January 1934.[15] Grau was replaced by Carlos Mendieta, and within five days the U.S. recognized Cuba's new government, which lasted eleven months. Batista then became the strongman behind a succession of puppet presidents until he was himself elected president in 1940.[15] After Mendieta, succeeding governments were led by José Barnet (5 months) and Miguel Mariano -
Platt Amendment Annulled
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Batista Loses Election to Dr. Grau
In 1944 Grau won the popular vote in the presidential election, defeating Carlos Saladrigas Zayas, Batista's handpicked successor, and served until 1948. Despite his initial popularity in 1933, accusations of corruption tainted his administration's image, and a sizable number of Cubans began to distrust him. As Grau assumed the presidency, he was forced to address many financial problems left by his predecessor, Batista. -
Eduardo René Chibás Ribas Commit Sucide
Eduardo René Chibás Ribas (1907 in Santiago de Cuba - August 16, 1951 in Havana, Cuba) was a Cuban politician who used radio to broadcast his political views to the public. He primarily denounced corruption and gangsterism rampant during the governments of Ramón Grau and Carlos Prío which preceded the Batista era. He believed corruption was the most important problem Cuba faced.
On August 5, 1951, Eduardo Chibás walked into radio station CMQ in Havana. Chibas shot himself during his weekly show. -
Assault on the Moncada Barracks
The Moncada Barracks was a military barracks in Santiago de Cuba, named after General Guillermón Moncada, a hero of the War of Independence. On July 26, 1953, the barracks was the site of an armed attack by a small group of revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro. This armed attack is widely accepted as the beginning of the Cuban Revolution. The date on which the attack took place, July 26, was adopted by Castro as the name for his revolutionary movement (Movimiento 26 Julio or M 26-7) which eventua -
Castro Released From Prision due to Outcry
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Castro Lands on Cuba From Mexico
The Granma landed in Cuba on 2 December 1956, crashing in a mangrove swamp at Playa Las Coloradas, close to Los Cayuelos. Batista's forces had been expecting them, and within several hours of their arrival they were bombarded from a naval vessel. Fleeing inland, they headed for the Sierra Maestra in Oriente, a large forested mountain range from where they could lead a guerrilla war against Batista.[171][172] At daybreak on 5 December they were unexpectantly attacked by a detachment of Batista's. -
Washington Imposes Arms Embargo on Batista
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Batista Forms a Last Ditch Offensive
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Batista Flees Cuba/Che Enters Havana
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Soviet Union Buys $5 million worth of Sugar
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Eisenhower Places Total Embargo on Cuba
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Bay of Pigs Failure
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. The invasion was launched in April 1961, less than three months after John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency in the United States. The Cuban armed forces, trained and equipped by Eastern Bloc nations, defeated the invading combatants within three days. The main i -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Date October 14–28, 1962
Blockade of Cuba ended November 20, 1962
Location Cuba
Result
Withdrawal of the Soviet Union's nuclear missiles from Cuba
Withdrawal of the United States' nuclear missiles from Turkey and Italy
Agreement with the Soviet Union that the United States would never invade Cuba
Creation of a nuclear hotline between Washington and Moscow
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Che Executed
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8.5 Million Tons of Sugar Produced/Missed 10 Million Mark
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Padilla Affair
Heberto Padilla (20 January, 1932 – 24 September, 2000) was a Cuban poet. The Padilla Affair was named after him.[1] He was born in Puerta de Golpe, Pinar del Río, Cuba. His first book of poetry, Las rosas audaces (The Audacious Roses), was published in 1948.
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New Communist Constituion Modeled on Soviets
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Mariel boatlift
The Mariel boatlift was a mass emigration of Cubans who departed from Cuba's Mariel Harbor for the United States between April 15 and October 31, 1980.
The event was precipitated by a sharp downturn in the Cuban economy which led to internal tensions on the island and a bid by up to 10,000 Cubans to gain asylum in the Peruvian embassy.
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US Marines Invade Cuban Supported Grenada
The Invasion of Grenada, codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, was a 1983 United States-led invasion of Grenada, a Caribbean island nation with a population of about 100,000 located 100 miles (160 km) north of Venezuela. Triggered by a bloody military coup which had ousted a four-year revolutionary government, the invasion resulted in a restoration of constitutional government. It was controversial due to charges of American imperialism, Cold War politics, the involvement of Cuba.