However, the roots of the Cuban Revolution grows deep into the Cuban history and goes far back to the Cuban Independence Wars, in the last half of the nineteenth century and its consequences are still in motion in present day. Therefore, this is a timeline of the whole historical process that began on October 10, 1868, and it has not ended yet. Interventions by the United States, Russia, and other foreign powers are largely attributed to the state of Cuba today.
1868October 11Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and his followers begin theTen Years War, first war of Cuban independence. According to the Cuban revolutionary ideologists, 1868 is the true beginning of theCuban Revolution.
1869AprilGuáimaro Assembly. Proclamation of the first independent Constitution of Cuba.
1928 Machado is reelected and forms a much stronger government, with the pretension of stay in power at least until 1935, in violation of the Constitution. Machado is supported by the US government.
1929 Following the stock market crash, the price of sugar, a main export, falls. Economic strife fuels revolutionary fervor.
1930-1932 Beginning of a more decided way of resistance against General Machado's increasing repression against the people.
January Colonel Batista overthrows President Grau and names a new government under his supervision, becoming thede facto ruler of Cuba. Villena dies of Tuberculosis.
May First Presidential elections since 1928. The winner isMiguel Mariano Gómez, who Batista worries will be too independent and resist his behind-the-scenes rule.
December Under pressure from Batista and the army, Congress impeaches Gómez and removes him from office. Vice-presidentFederico Laredo Brú becomes the new president.
16 October – Fidel Castro makes "History Will Absolve Me" speech in his own defense against the charges brought on him after the attack on the Moncada Barracks.
1956Nov 25 Fidel Castro, with some 80 insurgents including Raúl Castro, Che Guevara andCamilo Cienfuegos set sail from Mexico for Cuba on the yachtGranma.
1957January 17, Castro's guerrillas score their first success bysacking an army outpost on the south coast, and started gaining followers in both Cuba and abroad.
1957March 13, University students mount an unsuccessfulattack on the Presidential Palace in Havana. Cuban revolutionary leaderJosé Antonio Echeverría is killed in the streets ofHavana by police.
1957May 28, Castro's 26 July movement overwhelms an army post inEl Uvero.
1957July 30 Cuban revolutionary leaderFrank País is killed in the streets ofSantiago de Cuba by police while campaigning for the overthrow of Batista's government
1958May Batista sends an army of 10,000 into theSierra Maestra to destroy Castro's 300 armed guerrillas. By August, the rebels had defeated the army's advance and captured a huge amount of arms.
1958November 1 A Cuban aircraft en route from Miami to Havana is hijacked by militants but crashes. The hijackers were trying to land at Sierra Cristal in Eastern Cuba to deliver weapons toRaúl Castro's rebels. It is the first of what was to become manyCuba-U.S. hijackings
1958December Guevara directs a rebel attack onSanta Clara
1958December 28 Guevara's guerrilla troops seize Santa Clara.
January–February Many members of the Batista regime are judged, sentenced and executed by the new government. Many of these trials were held in stadiums with executions shortly after trial, with the accused denied legal counsel.
February 16 Fidel Castro is named Prime Minister of Cuba, in substitution ofJosé Miró Cardona.
May 17 Fidel Castro signed the First Law of Agrarian Reform, giving new lands for the Cuban peasants who didn't have any.
July Failed attempt of invasion by the Dominican Republic's dictatorRafael Leonidas Trujillo. Manuel Urrutia is replaced as president by the communist lawyerOsvaldo Dorticós.
September–October MajorHuber Matos unsuccessfully attempts to rise up his troops inCamagüey province, but he is arrested by Major Camilo Cienfuegos, who mysteriously disappears on October 28.DecemberRaúl Roa becomes the new Chancellor of Cuba.
March 6 La Coubre cargo ship carrying ammunition and explosives explodes inHavana Bay, killing over 100 people. Fidel Castro accuses theCIA of orchestrating this without providing any proof. A few days later, PhotographerAlberto Korda makes the famous Che Guevara picture during the memorial service for the victims of the explosion.
Many private companies are nationalized by the Revolutionary Government. Those who opposed the Revolutionary Government, began to flee the island, mostly toFlorida. Some others, formed guerrilla groups in the forests and mountains. In the meanwhile, Cuba formed an alliance with theSoviet Union, at the peak of theCold War.
March Former Majors William Morgan and Jesús Carreras are executed for high treason.
April Fidel Castro officially proclaims that "Cuba is a socialist country". The Bay of Pigs' invasion is defeated, being captured 1.197 of the 1.500 Cubans who invaded the island supported by the US Government. Former MayorHumberto Sorí Marín is executed for attempt on sabotage.
December 22 Fidel Castro officially proclaims that Cuba is a "Country without alphabets".
Che Guevara secretly returns toCuba with the intention of marching toBolivia, planning to start a new revolution there. He and most of his men were killed in Bolivia.
"Sovietization" of the Cuban Revolution. Repression against writers, actors, musicians, rockers, homosexuals, and anyone who follows the American Pop Culture. Standardization of the way of dressing and the hair style, etc.
1973August 6 Fulgencio Batista dies of a "heart attack" in Spain, where he had lived the remainder of his life in exile.
1975-1976 Constitutional Assembly.
1976February 24 Proclamation of the new Cuban Socialist Constitution.
1976December Fidel Castro is elected the new President of Cuba.
March President ofVenezuelaHugo Chávez dies and is succeeded by his Vice-presidentNicolás Maduro, with the full support of the Cuban Government.
December PresidentsRaúl Castro andBarack Obama shake their hands inNelson Mandela's funeral, commencing the negotiations between both nations to normalize relationships.
^Cooke, Alistair (January 2, 1959)."Castro in control of Cuba".www.theguardian.com. The Guardian. | 1950-1959 | Guardian Century Archives. Retrieved2023-04-04.
