28 January 1853
Birth of Jose Perez
Birth of Jose Perez
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Havana in Cuba. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Birth of Jose Perez
Marries Carmen Zayas on Havanas Calle Tulipan Street
Sworn in as President of Cuba
Machado institutes a major program of public works
Begins presidency before his rule hardens into dictatorship.
Extends his term and deepens opposition to his rule.
Helps organise opposition to Machado's dictatorship.
Defeats an attempted Coup by the Army
During a national strike the Cuban army forces Machado into exile and installs Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, son of Cuba's founding father, as President
During a national strike the Cuban army forces Machado into exile and installs Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, son of Cuba's founding father, as President
During a national strike the Cuban army forces Machado into exile and installs Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, son of Cuba's founding father, as President
A national strike undermines Machado's dictatorship.
Leaves Cuba after army pressure and mass opposition.
Becomes provisional president after Machado's fall.
During a second coup, led by sergeants most notably Fulgencio Batista, Cespedes is overthrown, leading to the formation of the first Ramon Grau San Martin Government
During a second coup, led by sergeants most notably Fulgencio Batista, Cespedes is overthrown, leading to the formation of the first Ramon Grau San Martin Government
During a second coup, led by sergeants most notably Fulgencio Batista, Cespedes is overthrown, leading to the formation of the first Ramon Grau San Martin Government
Helps lead the Sergeants' Revolt against the officer corps.
Is overthrown after the Sergeants' Revolt.
Takes office in the revolutionary Hundred Days Government.
Becomes Cuba's dominant military power after the 1933 revolution.
Leaves office under pressure from Batista and conservative forces.
Becomes constitutional president under the 1940 constitution.
Establishes a dictatorship
Challenges Batista's coup through legal and political opposition.
Holds power with the backing of a nationalist section of the army as a "provisional president" for the next two years. Batista fears that Barquin would oust him and his followers, and when it becomes apparent that Batista had little chance of winning the election he stages a coup
Batista fears that Barquin would oust him and his followers, and when it becomes apparent that Batista had little chance of winning the election he stages a coup
Seizes power by military coup before scheduled elections.
Holds an election without effective opposition.
Grants amnesty to surviving Moncada prisoners.
Intensifies repression against urban and rural opposition.
The United States restricts arms supplies to Batista's government.
The Revolutionary Directorate attacks Batista's palace and radio station.
The Revolutionary Directorate attacks Batista's palace and radio station.
Survives the Revolutionary Directorate assault on the palace.
Leads the Revolutionary Directorate attack and is killed.
The Revolutionary Directorate attacks Batista's palace and radio station.
Faces a United States arms embargo as rebel pressure grows.
Helps organise the April strike against Batista.
Batista divides responsibility between Cantillo and Chaviano during planning for the offensive.
Batista approves the campaign known as Plan FF, meaning Final Phase or End of Fidel.
Batista assigns Cantillo the mission of destroying Castro's forces in the Sierra Maestra.
Batista authorises a large army operation against the 26th of July Movement.
The defeat at Santa Clara convinces Batista to flee.
Becomes a senior commander in the revolutionary army.
Becomes a close organiser within Castro's revolutionary circle.
Continues revolutionary work after Batista's overthrow.
Flees Cuba as the revolution succeeds.
Castro's forces enter Havana after Batista flees Cuba.
Overthrown by Fidel Castro
Enters Havana as Batista's army collapses.
Enters Havana with rebel forces.
Becomes provisional president after Batista's fall.
Serves briefly as prime minister after the revolution.
Arrives in Havana after the revolutionary victory.
Assumes command of the revolutionary armed forces.
Castro arrives in Havana to cheering mobs and assumes the post of Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces
Becomes prime minister of the new revolutionary government.
Signs the First Agrarian Reform Law limiting large estates and expropriating land
The USA begins its embargo of Cuba after American wealth in Cuba is nationalized
Nationalizes the property of wealthy Cubans, Americans & other foreigners
Cuba nationalizes major US-owned refineries, utilities and industrial assets
The revolutionary government nationalizes most remaining large private businesses
Castro accepted the Soviet proposal to deploy missiles after consulting senior Cuban leaders.
Castro discussed the Soviet proposal to deploy strategic missiles as protection against another American-backed attempt to overthrow his government.
Castro accepted the strategic deployment in principle after Soviet representatives presented the plan as a defense of Cuba.
Castro mobilized Cuban forces after Kennedy announced the quarantine and demanded removal of the Soviet offensive missiles.
Raul Castro placed Cuban armed forces on wartime readiness as the United States announced its quarantine and increased regional military preparations.
Castro rejected the legality of the quarantine and prepared Cuba for the possibility of American air strikes or invasion.
Castro warned Khrushchev that an invasion appeared imminent and urged a decisive Soviet response.
Castro warned Khrushchev that American military action appeared imminent and urged the Soviet Union to resist an invasion decisively.
Castro issued five demands for a broader settlement and rejected foreign inspection on Cuban territory.
Castro learned that Khrushchev had agreed to remove the missiles without first securing Cuban approval of the settlement.
Castro reiterated demands concerning Guantanamo, reconnaissance flights, economic pressure, and support for exile attacks against Cuba.
Castro resisted intrusive international inspection proposals while discussing implementation of the Soviet withdrawal with Mikoyan.
Castro agrees with Donovan to exchange 1,113 Bay of Pigs prisoners for food and medicine valued at about fifty-three million dollars.
Perez San Roman is released from Cuban imprisonment as the Bay of Pigs prisoner exchange is completed.
Artime is released from Cuban imprisonment with other Brigade 2506 members under the exchange agreement.
Oliva is released with other Brigade 2506 prisoners following completion of the negotiated exchange.
Cuban authorities reply that Oswald may receive a Cuban visa only after he first obtains Soviet permission for onward travel.
The embargo on emigration is temporarily lifted
Dissidents occupy the Peruvian Embassy & Cuba allows a mass exodus from Port Mariel
Cuba agrees to to take back criminals in exchange for Cuban political prisoners. A new airfield is constructed which is viewed by the US as being for military purposes
Cuba agrees to to take back criminals in exchange for Cuban political prisoners
Announces Cuba will withdraw its troops from Angola "gradually & totally"
Norberto Collado Abreu, the helmsman of the Granma yacht that carried Fidel Castro from Mexico to Cuba to launch his revolution in 1956, dies in Havana
Norberto Collado Abreu, the helmsman of the Granma yacht that carried Fidel Castro from Mexico to Cuba to launch his revolution in 1956, dies in Havana
Cuba politely declined a US offer to send a disaster assessment team to the island after Hurricane Gustav, saying it would rather Washington suspend restrictions on travel and the sale of food and other materials it needs to recover
Cuba politely declined a US offer to send a disaster assessment team to the island after Hurricane Gustav, saying it would rather Washington suspend restrictions on travel and the sale of food and other materials it needs to recover
Cuba politely declined a US offer to send a disaster assessment team to the island after Hurricane Gustav, saying it would rather Washington suspend restrictions on travel and the sale of food and other materials it needs to recover
Deadly Hurricane Ike roared across Cuba, blowing buildings to rubble and sending waves surging over homes, 900,000 Cubans evacuated from its path, which forecasters said could take it to Louisiana or Texas
Deadly Hurricane Ike roared across Cuba, blowing buildings to rubble and sending waves surging over homes, 900,000 Cubans evacuated from its path, which forecasters said could take it to Louisiana or Texas
Hurricane Ike roared south of Havana, Cuba, after tearing across the island nation, ravaging homes, killing at least four people and forcing 1.2 million to evacuate
Hurricane Ike roared south of Havana, Cuba, after tearing across the island nation, ravaging homes, killing at least four people and forcing 1.2 million to evacuate
Gustav swelled to a fearsome Category 3 hurricane with winds of 120 mph (195 kph) as it shrieked toward the heartland of Cuba's cigar industry on a track to hit the US Gulf Coast, three years after Hurricane Katrina
Death of Fidel Castro
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