Timetable History of Cuba

Here you'll find a linear journey through five centuries of Cuban history. You'll encounter the lives of José Martí, Antonio Maceo, Juan Gualberto Gómez, Gerardo Machado and many others who contributed to Cuba's long and complex history.

This timetable is a continuing work in progress. You can track the people and events that give Cuban history, in the words of historian Philip S. Foner, "a significance out of proportion to its size."

From the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492, through the conquest of Cuba and the new world and the capture of Havana by British pirates in 1762, the Cuban story sparkles with drama, heartbreak and promise.