Castro's rule of Cuba
1959–2008 · Event
Half a century from the overthrow of Batista: the missile crisis, the embargo, literacy and health campaigns, and the loss of the Soviet subsidy.
On these timelines: Latin America, Master, The Cuban Revolution
More from Latin America
- Spanish Conquest of the Americas (1519)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521)
- Columbian Exchange (1492)
- Haitian Revolution begins (1791)
- Toussaint Louverture issues Haitian constitution (1801)
- Pizarro executes Atahualpa (1533)
- Falklands War (1982)
Around 1959
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Korean War (1950)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)