Follow Fidel Alejandro Castro through 197 dated historical records for Cuba.
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
By about 10:30 on 18 April, Cuban troops and militia, supported by tanks, took Playa Larga after Brigade forces had fled towards Giron in the early hours. During the day, Brigade forces retreated to San Blas along the two roads from Covadonga and Yaguaramas. By then, both Fidel Castro and Jose Ramon Fernandez had re-located to that battlefront area
Role range: 1961-1976
Castro orders large Cuban forces toward the beachhead while armour and aircraft increase pressure on Brigade 2506.
Role range: 1960-1962
Cuban forces under Castro's command defeat the remaining Brigade 2506 resistance at the Bay of Pigs.
Role range: 1960-1962
Castro's government imprisons most surviving Brigade 2506 members captured after the invasion.
Role range: 1960-1962
Castro forms a dictatorship & declares himself to be a Marxist-Leninist. As hundreds of thousands celebrate May Day, Castro announces Cuba is a socialist nation & abolishes elections
Role range: 1961-1976
Castro forms a dictatorship & declares himself to be a Marxist-Leninist
Role range: 1961-1976
As hundreds of thousands celebrate May Day, Castro announces Cuba is a socialist nation & abolishes elections
Role range: 1961-1976
As hundreds of thousands celebrate May Day, Castro announces Cuba is a socialist nation & abolishes elections
Role range: 1961-1976
The revolutionary government nationalizes most remaining large private businesses
Role range: 1959-1976
In response to the Cuban alignment with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy extended measures by Executive Order, widening the scope of the trade restrictions
Role range: 1961-1976
In response to the Cuban alignment with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy extended measures by Executive Order, widening the scope of the trade restrictions
Role range: 1961-1976
In response to the Cuban alignment with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy extended measures by Executive Order, widening the scope of the trade restrictions
Role range: 1961-1976
The US imposes an embargo against Cuba
Role range: 1961-1976
The US imposes an embargo against Cuba
Role range: 1961-1976
The US imposes an embargo against Cuba
Role range: 1961-1976
Castro discussed the Soviet proposal to deploy strategic missiles as protection against another American-backed attempt to overthrow his government.
Role range: 1959-1976
Castro accepted the strategic deployment in principle after Soviet representatives presented the plan as a defense of Cuba.
Role range: 1959-1976
Castro accepted the Soviet proposal to deploy missiles after consulting senior Cuban leaders.
Role range: 1959-1976
The US announce its discovery of missile sites, and implements a quarantine around Cuba that woul intercept and search vessels heading for Cuba.
Role range: 1961-1976
Castro mobilized Cuban forces after Kennedy announced the quarantine and demanded removal of the Soviet offensive missiles.
Role range: 1959-1976
Castro rejected the legality of the quarantine and prepared Cuba for the possibility of American air strikes or invasion.
Role range: 1959-1976
Castro warned Khrushchev that American military action appeared imminent and urged the Soviet Union to resist an invasion decisively.
Role range: 1959-1976
Castro warned Khrushchev that an invasion appeared imminent and urged a decisive Soviet response.
Role range: 1959-1976
Castro urges Khrushchev to launch a nuclear first strike against the United States if Cuba is invaded, but Khrushchev rejected any first strike response.
Role range: 1961-1976
Castro issued five demands for a broader settlement and rejected foreign inspection on Cuban territory.
Role range: 1959-1976
Castro learned that Khrushchev had agreed to remove the missiles without first securing Cuban approval of the settlement.
Role range: 1959-1976
Khrushchev agrees to remove the Soviet missiles from Cuba. Castro demands that the USA evacuate Cuba's Guantanamo naval base.
Role range: 1961-1976
Castro reiterated demands concerning Guantanamo, reconnaissance flights, economic pressure, and support for exile attacks against Cuba.
Role range: 1959-1976
Castro resisted intrusive international inspection proposals while discussing implementation of the Soviet withdrawal with Mikoyan.
Role range: 1959-1976
On 21 December 1962, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro and James B. Donovan a US lawyer aided by Milan C. Miskovsky, a CIA legal officer, signed an agreement to exchange 1,113 prisoners for US $53 million in food and medicine, sourced from private donations and from companies expecting tax concessions
Role range: 1961-1976
Castro agrees with Donovan to exchange 1,113 Bay of Pigs prisoners for food and medicine valued at about fifty-three million dollars.
Role range: 1960-1962
The US government views the installation of Soviet nuclear weapons 90 miles south of Key West as an aggressive act and a threat to US security.
Role range: 1961-1976
Cuba is expelled from the Organisation of American States (OAS)
Role range: 1961-1976
Cuba is expelled from the Organisation of American States (OAS)
Role range: 1961-1976
Cuba is expelled from the Organisation of American States (OAS)
Role range: 1961-1976
Khrushchev agrees to remove the missiles in exchange for a US commitment not to invade Cuba and that the US will remove American MRBMs targeting Russia from Turkey and Italy.
Role range: 1961-1976
Khrushchev wants to locate missiles in Cuba as a deterrent to a US invasion and justifies the move in response to US missile deployment in Turkey.
Role range: 1961-1976
Castro publicly warns that American leaders could face danger if the United States continued supporting attempts to eliminate Cuban leaders.
The US broadens the embargo against Cuba, including a general travel ban for American tourists
Role range: 1961-1976
The US broadens the embargo against Cuba, including a general travel ban for American tourists
Role range: 1961-1976
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