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Fidel Castro Ruz
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Great crises always deliver great solutions |
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Fidel Castro's Memorial
speech of Che
Guevara
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| August
13, 1926 |
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Angel Castro and Lina Ruz gave birth to a child named Fidel Castro Ruz in
the ranch "Finca las Manacas" near the village of Biran.
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| October
12, 1948 |
Fidel Castro Ruz and Birta Diaz Balart were married in the Iglesia de
Nuestra Senora de la Caridad in Banes.
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| July 26, 1953 |
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Fidel Castro leads an armed attack on the Moncada army garrison
in Santiago de Cuba, launching the revolutionary struggle to
overthrow the Batista regime. The attack fails and Batista’s
troops massacre more than 50 captured combatants. Castro and
other survivors are soon captured and imprisoned.
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| 1954 |
Fidel
Castro and Birta Diaz Balart divorced. Birta remarried and moved to
Spain. |
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| October
1953 |
Fidel was brought with the other
Rebels, who attacked the Moncada Barracks to the prison "Presidio
Modelo" in Nueva Gerona. |
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| February
1954 |
During a prison visit Fidel was
heckling Batista, for which Fidel was put into solitary confinement. |
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| May
15, 1955 |
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Fidel was set free with
the other Moncada attackers from the prison "Presidio Modelo"
in Nueva Gerona. They went by the ferry "El Pinero" to the
mainland of Cuba. |
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| July 7, 1955
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Fidel Castro arrives in Mexico with the goal of organizing
an armed expedition to Cuba.
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| November 25, 1956
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Fidel
Castro and eighty-two combatants sail for
Cuba aboard the small cabin cruiser Granma, leaving from Tuxpan
in Mexico.
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December 2, 1956
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The Granma reaches Cuba at Las Coloradas beach in Oriente
Province.
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December 5, 1956
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The rebel combatants are surprised by Batista’s troops at
Alegría de Pío and dispersed. A majority of the guerrillas are
either murdered or captured.
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December 21, 1956
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Guevara’s group reunites with Fidel
Castro. At this moment there are left only 15 fighters in the Rebel Army.
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| January 8, 1959
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Fidel Castro arrives in Havana, greeted by hundreds of
thousands of people. |
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| February
16, 1959
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Fidel Castro becomes prime minister. |
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| July 16–17, 1959
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Castro resigns as Prime Minister because of government
crisis stemming from Urrutia’s opposition to revolution’s
measures; in response, a massive popular outpouring forces
Urrutia to resign from presidency and he is replaced by
Osvaldo Dorticós. |
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July 26, 1959
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Castro returns to
the post as Prime Minister. |
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April 16, 1961
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At a mass rally to honor the victims of the previous
day’s attacks, Fidel Castro proclaims socialist character of
the Cuban revolution; Cuba is put on alert in anticipation of
the impending attack. |
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| April 17–19, 1961
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1,500 Cuban-born mercenaries, organized and backed by the
United States, invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs on the southern
coast. The aim was to establish a “provisional government”
to appeal for direct U.S. intervention. They are defeated
within 72 hours, with the last ones surrendering at Playa Girón
(Girón Beach), which has come to be the name used by the
Cubans for the battle. Fidel Castro leads the
counter-attack from the sugar mill at Jaguey Grande. |
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Republic of Cuba
