Timeline of the Cuban Revolution

The Cuban Revolution was the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista’s regime by the 26th of July Movement and the establishment of a new Cuban government led by Fidel Castro in the 1950s. It began with the assault on the Moncada Barracks on July 26, 1953, and ended on January 1, 1959, when Batista was driven from the country and the cities Santa Clara and Santiago de Cuba were seized by rebels, led by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro's surrogates Raúl Castro and Huber Matos, respectively.

1952

*1952 "March" Former president Batista, supported by the army, seizes power.

1953

*1953 "July 26" Some 160 revolutionaries under the command of Fidel Castro launch an attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba.
*1953 "October 16" 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.

1954

*1954 "September" Che Guevara arrives in Mexico City.
*1954 "November" Batista dissolves parliament and is elected constitutional president without opposition.

1955

*1955 "May" Fidel and surviving members of his movement are released from prison under an amnesty from Batista.
*1955 "June" Brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro are introduced to Che Guevara in Mexico City.

1956

*1956 "November 25" Fidel Castro, with some 80 insurgents including Raúl Castro, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos set sail from Mexico for Cuba on the yacht Granma.
*1956 "December 2" Granma lands in Oriente Province.

1957

*1957 "January 17", Castro's guerrillas score their first success by sacking an army outpost on the south coast, and started gaining followers in both Cuba and abroad.
*1957 "March 13", University students mount an unsuccessful attack on the Presidential Palace in Havana.
*1957 "May 28" 1957, Castro's 26th July movement overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
*1957 "July 30" Cuban revolutionary Frank País is killed in the streets of Santiago de Cuba by police while campaigning for the overthrow of Batista government.

1958

*1958 "February" Raúl Castro opens a front in the Sierra de Cristal on Oriente's north coast.
*1958 "March 13" U.S. suspends shipments of arms to Batista's forces.
*1958 "March 17" Castro calls for a general revolt.
*1958 "April 9" A general strike, organized by the 26th of July movement, is partially observed.
*1958 "May" Batista sends an army of 10,000 into the Sierra 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.
*1958 "November 1" A Cubana 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 to Raúl Castro's rebels. It is the first of what was to become many Cuba-U.S. hijackings [ [http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1958/1958-41.htm Accident details] planecrashinfo.com ]
*1958 "December" Guevara directs a rebel attack on Santa Clara
*1958 "December 28" Guevara's guerrilla troops seize Santa Clara.
*1958 "December 31" Camilo Cienfuegos leads revolutionary guerrillas to victory in Yaguajay.

1959

*1959 "January 1" President Batista resigns and flees the country. Fidel Castro's column enters Santiago de Cuba.
*1959 "January 2" Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos arrive in Havana.
*1959 "January 5" Manuel Urrutia named President of Cuba
*1959 "January 8" Fidel Castro arrives at Havana, speaks to crowds at Camp Columbia.
*1959 "February 16" Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba.

ee also

*History of Cuba
*Timeline of Cuban history

References