- 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 newCuba n government led byFidel Castro in the1950s . It began with the assault on theMoncada Barracks onJuly 26 ,1953 , and ended onJanuary 1 ,1959 , when Batista was driven from the country and the cities Santa Clara andSantiago de Cuba were seized by rebels, led byChe Guevara and Fidel Castro's surrogatesRaúl Castro andHuber Matos , respectively.1952
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1952 "March" Former president Batista, supported by the army, seizes power.1953
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1953 "July 26" Some 160 revolutionaries under the command of Fidel Castro launch an attack on theMoncada barracks inSantiago 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
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1954 "September" Che Guevara arrives inMexico City .
*1954 "November" Batista dissolves parliament and is elected constitutional president without opposition.1955
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1955 "May" Fidel and surviving members of his movement are released from prison under an amnesty from Batista.
*1955 "June" Brothers Fidel andRaúl Castro are introduced to Che Guevara in Mexico City.1956
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1956 "November 25" Fidel Castro, with some 80 insurgents including Raúl Castro, Che Guevara andCamilo Cienfuegos set sail from Mexico for Cuba on the yacht Granma.
*1956 "December 2" Granma lands inOriente Province .1957
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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 revolutionaryFrank País is killed in the streets ofSantiago de Cuba by police while campaigning for the overthrow of Batista government.1958
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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 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.
*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 toRaúl 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
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1959 "January 1" President Batista resigns and flees the country. Fidel Castro's column enters Santiago de Cuba.
*1959 "January 2" Guevara andCamilo 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 becomesPremier of Cuba .ee also
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History of Cuba
*Timeline of Cuban history References
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