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| 1933 | Coup d'Etat |  |
| Sep Havana During a second coup, led by sergeants most notably Fulgencio Batista, C‚spedes is overthrown, leading to the formation of the first Ram˘n Grau San Martˇn government |
| 1944 | President | |
| Appointed President of Cuba, 2nd term |
| 1952 | Coup d'Etat | |
| 10th Mar Havana Batista fears that Barquin would oust him and his followers, and when it becomes apparent that Batista had little chance of winning the election he stages a coup |
| 10th Mar Havana Holds power with the backing of a nationalist section of the army as a "provisional president" for the next two years |
| 1952 | Election | |
| The 1952 election is a three-way race, Roberto Agramonte of the Ortodoxos party led in all the polls, followed by Dr. Aurelio Hevia of the Aut‚ntico party, and running a distant third was Batista, who was seeking a return to office |
| 1952 | President | |
| 10th Mar Appointed President of Cuba, 3rd term |
| 1956 | Coup d'Etat | |
| April A coup by hundreds of career officers led by Col. Barquin (then Vice Chair of the Inter-American Defense Board in Washington and Cuban Military Attach‚ of Sea, Air and Land to the US) is frustrated by Rios Morejon |
| April Batista had given the orders for Barquin to become General and Chief of the Army but it is too late, Barquin decides to move forward with the coup to rescue the morale of the Armed Forces and the Cuban people |
| April La Conspiraci˘n de los Puros results in the imprisonment of the top commanding brass of the Armed Forces and the closing of the military academies |
| April The coup breaks the backbone of the Cuban Armed Forces, the officers are sentenced to the maximum terms allowed by Cuban Martial Law, Barquin is sentenced to solitary confinement for 8 years |
| April Without Barquin's officers the army's ability to combat the revolutionary insurgents is severely curtailed |
| 2nd Dec Sierra Maestra A party of 82 badly trained revolutionaries led by Castro, lands in a yacht named Granma and tries to start an armed resistance movement in the Sierra Maestra |
| 1957 | Coup d'Etat | |
| Havana The USAcuts off arms supplies & encourages the resistance movement of Castro |
| 1957 | Embargo | |
| Havana The USAcuts off arms supplies & encourages the resistance movement of Castro |
| 1958 | Capture of Santa Clara | |
| Santa Clara When the rebels capture Santa Clara, east of Havana, Batista decides the struggle is futile and flees the country to exile in Portugal and later Spain |
| 1958 | Coup d'Etat | |
| Sierra Maestra The rebels had succeed in breaking out of the Sierra Maestra and launch a general insurrection, joined by hundreds of students and others fleeing Batista's crackdown on dissent in the cities |
| Santa Clara When the rebels capture Santa Clara, east of Havana, Batista decides the struggle is futile and flees the country to exile in Portugal and later Spain |
| 14th Mar In response to Batista's plea to purchase better arms from the USAin order to root out the insurgents in the mountains, the United States government imposes an arms embargo on the Cuban government |
| 1958 | Siege of Santa Clara | |
| Santa Clara When the rebels capture Santa Clara, east of Havana, Batista decides the struggle is futile and flees the country to exile in Portugal and later Spain |
| 1959 | Coup d'Etat | |
| 1st Jan Havana Overthrown by Fidel Castro |
