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Gregorio Guazo y Calderón Fernández de la Vega. 29 September 1724 to 18 March 1734. Dionisio Martínez de la Vega. 18 March 1734 to 22 April 1746. Francisco de Güemes y Horcasitas Gordón de Saenz de Villamolinedo, Count of Revillagigedo. 22 April 1746 to 21 July 1746. Juan Antonio Tineo y Fuertes.
Arrival of colonizers. The Guanajatabey, Ciboney and Taíno peoples lived in Cuba in the 15th century; these were peaceful peoples and were organized in a primitive community. On October 27, 1492, the first European contact was made when Columbus was trying to sail to the Orient. Sebastián de Ocampo made the first circumnavigation of the ...
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. 1527. The first African slaves arrive in Cuba. 1532. The first slave rebellion is crushed.
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, New Spain. Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar[note 1] (1465 – c. June 12, 1524) was a Spanish conquistador and the first governor of Cuba. In 1511 he led the successful conquest and colonization of Cuba. As the first governor of the island, he established several municipalities that remain important to this day and ...
Took office. Left office. Time in office. President of the Republic. 1. Tomás Estrada Palma. (1835–1908) 20 May 1902.
Cuban immigration to the United States, for the most part, occurred in two periods: the first series of immigration of wealthy Cuban Americans to the United States resulted from Cubans establishing cigar factories in Tampa and from attempts to overthrow Spanish colonial rule by the movement led by José Martí, the second to escape from Communist rule under Fidel Castro following the Cuban ...
Spanish colonial period of Cuba. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Colonial Cuba. Spanish Colonial Cuba (1515−1898) — a long historical period in the history of Cuba. It was part of the Spanish West Indies colonies, and administratively within the Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial México). Cuba portal.
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 ...