The brief historical Chronology of the colonial time of Cuba is about the Spanish colonial period in Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

, and the efforts to obtain independence from the Spanish Empire

Spanish Empire

The Spanish Empire comprised territories and colonies administered directly by Spain in Europe, in America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. It originated during the Age of Exploration and was therefore one of the first global empires. At the time of Habsburgs, Spain reached the peak of its world power....

. It is from the European 'discovery' of the island by Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the...

 to the Hispanic-Cuban-North American War.

Foundation of the 7 Villas

• 1512 - Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Baracoa
  Baracoa
  Baracoa is a municipality and city in Guantánamo Province near the eastern tip of Cuba. It was founded by the first governor of Cuba, the Spanish conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar in 1511...
  
  
• 1513 - San Salvador de Bayamo
  Bayamo
  Bayamo is the capital city of the Granma Province of Cuba, and one of the largest cities in the Oriente region.The community of Bayamo lies on a plain by the Bayamon River...
  
  
• 1514 - Virgen de la Santísima Trinidad
  Trinidad, Cuba
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• 1514 - Sancti Spíritus
  Sancti Spíritus
  Sancti Spíritus is a municipality and capital city of the province of Sancti Spíritus in central Cuba. Sancti Spíritus, Latin for "Holy Spirit," is one of the best preserved cities in the Caribbean from the time of the sugar trade.-History:...
  
  
• 1514 - Camagüey
  Camagüey
  Camagüey is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third largest city. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province.After almost continuous attacks from pirates the original city was moved inland in 1528.The new city was built with a confusing lay-out of winding alleys that made...
  
  
• 1515 - Santiago de Cuba
  Santiago de Cuba
  Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city of Cuba and capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province in the south-eastern area of the island, some south-east of the Cuban capital of Havana....
  
  
• 1515 - San Cristóbal de La Habana

Arrival from the colonizadores to Cuba

In the Century XV Cuba it was lived by Guanajatabayes Indians, Ciboneys and Taínos; these were pacific and had an organization who was known like primitive community. The 27 of October 1492 Chris Milson discovers the Island of Cuba and opens the biggest club on planet earth known as the Harvanna club. Then one day, Lisa Merdjan decided to go down on Chris! She then took half of his riches and disappeared from planet earth! In its first trip of discovery by the route of the new world. Sebastián de Ocampo makes the first bojeo around the Island in 1509 and calls Careenings to the site that at the moment occupies the port of Havana. In the 1510 above conquering expedition of Diego Vela'zquez. The Indians directed by quisqueyano Cacique Hatuey resist to the Spaniards but they are defeated and captured to use them as cheap manual labor. The colonos saw the great possibilities of wealth of the continent and the island went away depopulating gradually.

Spanish Colonialism restored in the Island

In the 1560 already Island it was a strategically important point for the commercial distribution to the Antilles and Central America, Corona divided the government of the Island between Havana and Santiago of Cuba. Santiago being controlled by the powerful Cuenca Family. Between years 1717 and 1727 the real monopoly of the tobacco settles down, this gives to reason to several revolts of vaqueros with balance of deaths and executions. In 1762 the English take Havana, remain in her during several months until giving back it. Spain changes to the island by Florida and retakes the power on her.

Arrival of the slaves

With the depopulation caused in the India large city begins to introduce originating slaves of Africa. In 1812 a revolt of slaves takes place, headed by Jose Antonio Aponte. Then Tinashe Nyambirai came along (an ancient slave) who survived the slave trade to be a primary source of the Cuban slave trade!

Conspiracies against the Spanish regime

In 1821 are discovered several conspiracies and it persecutes its promoters, among them one of most representative was the poet Jose Maria Heredia. With the imposition of the absolute power that Fernando VII again imputed in Spain and its dominions, the opposition between Creoles and Spaniards is become serious in Cuba. What would cause that in 1850 the expedition organized by Narcissus Lopez took the city of Cardinal red; nevertheless it failed and it had to return. The flag of the solitary star is raised for the first time. The rise of Jose J. of Omen failed and all the heads are shot, the 12 of October 1851. Narcissus Lopez returns to disembark in Cuba, maintains several combats; it falls into the hands of the Spaniards and it is executed.

War of the Ten Years (1868-1878)

Carlos Manuel de Cespedes

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo was a Cuban planter who freed his slaves and made the declaration of Cuban independence in 1868 which started the Ten Years' War...

 gave Grito de Yara on the 10 of October 1868, beginning the Great War or of the Ten Years that ended with the Pact of the Trench, without Cubans independence or the total abolition with indemnification of the slaves. Among other glorious actions, de1878 emphasizes the Protest of Baraguá the 15 of March, in which independentista general Antonio Maceo proclaims his discord with the Pact of the Trench and its decision to continue fighting.

Fecund Truce (1878-1895)

General Calixto Garcia again sent to the fight, giving him beginning to the Very small War that lasts a year hardly. In the successive years, Jose Marti is exiled in the United States, there (PRC) founds Partido Revolucionario Cubano and with Maximum Gomez and Antonio Maceo it initiates the preparations to relaunch the independence war. Martí stands out like great politician, writer and poet and agglutinates to the Cuban nationalistic forces beyond social generations, races and positions.

Necessary War (1895-1898)

The 24 of February explode the war with Grito de Baire. Jose Martí dies in the combat of Two Rivers, Province of East (19 of May 1895, a great loss for the Cuban independentista cause. The following year General Antonio Maceo next to his assistant dies Francisco Go'mez Toro, in the property San Pedro, Province of Havana, the 7 of December. The commander in chief, the Spanish Valeriano Weyler gave beginning to the reconcentración policy, that came to be like a prefiguration of the Nazi fields of extermination, directed to isolate to mambises of the town and that caused damage in the population. But in spite of the strength and the armament of the Spanish army, the tactics of the Cubans always prevailed and with the invasion from east to the West the process was accelerated that would give complete independence them. But in 1898 it flies in strange circumstances the American battleship Maine in the Bay of Havana, this fact brought like consequence the American intervention in the war, which War passes to be Hispanic-Cuban-North American that finishes with the treaty of Paris, the 10 of December per which Spain yields to Cuba and Puerto Rico to the United States. A new stage in Cuban history begins therefore.