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Cuba leased to the United States the southern portion of Guantánamo Bay, where a United States Naval Station had been established in 1898. The Platt Amendment defined the terms of Cuban-U.S. relations for the following 33 years and provided the legal basis for U.S. military interventions with varying degrees of support from Cuban governments ...
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 ...
Year Date Event 1728: The University of Havana is founded. 1734: Juan Francisco de Güemes begins a 12-year tenure as Governor of Cuba. 1741: British Admiral Edward Vernon briefly captures Guantánamo Bay, renaming it Cumberland Bay, during the War of Jenkins' Ear. His troops withdraw after being decimated by fevers and raids from Spanish ...
The role of the United States in Cuban affairs, its responsibilities and prerogatives, derived from the Cuban–American Treaty of Relations of 1903, which Cuba and the United States had signed on 22 May of 1903, and ratified in 1904. [3] Article III stated: [4] It contained this provision:
On Friday John Kerry will make history as he becomes the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Cuba in more than seven decades. His visit is a pivotal milestone in the relationship between the ...
Cuban Thaw: Two and a half years of relatively normal relationships between Cuba and the US. 2016 October Hurricane Matthew affected the country. 2016 November 25 Death of Fidel Castro. 2017 June American President Donald Trump puts an end to the Cuban Thaw. 2017 September Hurricane Irma affected the country.
In July the United States suspended the purchase of 700,000 tons of sugar from Cuba, four days later the Soviet Union announced they would buy one million tons of Cuban sugar. In August the United States announced a total economic embargo on Cuba and threatened other Latin American and European nations with reprisals if they did not do the same ...
The U.S. began efforts to normalize relations with Cuba in the mid-2010s, [157] and formally reopened its embassy in Havana after over half a century in August 2015. [158] The Trump administration reversed much of the Cuban Thaw by severely restricting travel by US citizens to Cuba and tightening the US government's embargo against the country ...