Timeline of Cuba, 1492-1886

Plot by free blacks

Havana is captured by
in Cuba to abolish
the British under
slavery and end
Admiral George
colonial rule. The
Pocock and Lord
Year of the Lash.
Albemarle during the
About 400 blacks
The navigator Seven Years War.
Sugar, which will were killed, some
Christopher Columbus Cuba begins to export Slavery is
eventually become 600 jailed, and
claimed Cuba for Spain sugar to the British abolished
Cuba's largest crop, is another 400
1492 colonies. 1886
first grown expelled
1762
1523 1843-44

1511 1763 1868-78 1895-98

1526 Ten Years War of
Spanish conquest Havana returned to Jose Marti leads a
Importing of slaves from independence
begins under the Spain by the Treaty of second war of
Africa begins ends in a truce with
leadership of Diego Paris. independence; US
de Velazquez, who Spain promising declares war on
establishes Baracoa reforms and Spain.
and other greater autonomy - US defeats Spain,
settlements. promises that were which gives up all
mostly never met claims to Cuba and
cedes it to the US.