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Humans first settled Cuba around 6,000 years ago, ... In 1511, the first Spanish settlement was founded by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar at Baracoa.
In 1514, a south coast settlement was founded in what was to become Havana. The current city was founded in 1519. ... After 1971, Cuba entered its "grey years:, ...
Eight years later the first color television broadcasting was done and it was one of the first countries in the world to do color broadcasts. Television in Cuba grew dramatically in the 1950s and by the late 1950s it had the 9th highest number of TV sets out of any country in the world and the 4th highest number of TV channels out of any country.
Taíno genocide Viceroyalty of New Spain (1535–1821) Siege of Havana (1762) Captaincy General of Cuba (1607–1898) Lopez Expedition (1850–1851) Ten Years' War (1868–1878) Little War (1879–1880) Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898) Treaty of Paris (1898) US Military Government (1898–1902) Platt Amendment (1901) Republic of Cuba (1902–1959) Cuban Pacification (1906–1909) Negro ...
The first governor of Cuba, the Spanish conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar leads a group of settlers in Baracoa. 1512: Indigenous Cuban resistance leader Hatuey is burned at the stake. 1519: Havana founded as San Cristóbal de la Habana (north coast) 1523: Emperor Charles V authorizes 4,000 gold pesos for the construction of cotton mills ...
Siege of Havana (1762) Captaincy General of Cuba (1607–1898) Lopez Expedition (1850–1851) Ten Years' War (1868–1878) Little War (1879–1880) Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898) Treaty of Paris (1898) US Military Government (1898–1902) Platt Amendment (1901) Republic of Cuba (1902–1959) Cuban Pacification (1906–1909) Negro Rebellion (1912) Sugar Intervention (1917–1922) Cuban ...
In 1560 the island was already a strategically important point for the commercial distribution to the Antilles and Central America. Corona divided the government of the Island between Havana and Santiago de Cuba, the latter being controlled by the powerful Cuenca Family. Between years 1717 and 1727, the royal monopoly of the tobacco was ...
For these reasons, Cuba has frequently focused on agricultural exports to promote foreign trade. [7] Cuba's independence from Spain after the Spanish–American War in 1898 and its formation of a republic in 1902 led to investments in the Cuban economy from the United States. The doubling of sugar consumption in the United States between 1903 ...