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| 1928 | Birth |  |
| 9th Oct Rosario Birth of Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che or just Che was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, political figure, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas
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| 1948 | Education | |
| Buenos Aires Enters the University of Buenos Aires to study medicine
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| 1955 | 26th of July Movement | |
| July Guevara was to be the group's medic, Guevara participates in the military training alongside the other members of the 26J Movement, and at the end of the course, is singled out by their instructor, Col. Alberto Bayo, as the most outstanding pupil
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| 8th July RaŁl Castro introduces Guevara to the older Castro brother, Fidel, during a fervid overnight conversation, Guevara becomes convinced Fidel is the inspirational revolutionary leader for whom he had been searching
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| 1956 | 26th of July Movement | |
| While in Mexico Guevara joins Fidel Castro's revolutionary 26th of July Movement
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| 25th Nov When the cabin cruiser Granma sets out from Tuxpan, Veracruz for Cuba, Guevara is one of only four non-Cubans aboard
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| 1958 | 26th of July Movement | |
| July Guevara is tasked with directing a training camp for new volunteers high in the Sierra Maestra at Minas del Frˇo, Cuba, one of a number of military schools set up by the 26th of July Movement
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| Dec Santa Clara Guevara directs his "suicide squad" in the attack on Santa Clara that turned out to be one of the decisive events of the Cuban revolution
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| 1958 | Siege of Santa Clara | |
| Dec Santa Clara Guevara directs his "suicide squad" in the attack on Santa Clara that turned out to be one of the decisive events of the Cuban revolution
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| 1959 | Commander | |
| 2nd Jan La Caba¤a Fortress Prison Appointed commander of the La Caba¤a Fortress prison
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| 1959 | Economy | |
| Signs all Cuban banknotes issued during his fourteen-month presidency with his nickname, "Che"
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| 1959 | Execution | |
| 2nd Jan La Caba¤a Fortress Prison Oversees the trial and execution of many people, among whom were former Batista regime officials and members of the "Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities"
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| 1959 | Exile | |
| 1st Jan Batista, upon learning that his generals - especially General Cantillo, had visited Castro at the inactive sugar mill, Central Oriente - were negotiating a separate peace with the rebel leader, fled to the Dominican Republic
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| 1959 | Marriage | |
| 2nd June Marries Aleida March a Cuban-born member of the 26th of July movement with whom he had been living since late 1958
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| 1959 | National Bank of Cuba | |
| Guevara becomes an official at the National Institute of Agrarian Reform and President of the National Bank of Cuba
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| Signs all Cuban banknotes issued during his fourteen-month presidency with his nickname, "Che"
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| 1959 | National Institute of Agrarian Reform | |
| Guevara becomes an official at the National Institute of Agrarian Reform and President of the National Bank of Cuba
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| 1959 | Revolution | |
| Guevara helped organize revolutionary expeditions overseas, all of which failed, the first attempt is made in Panama; another in the Dominican Republic
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| 1st Jan The Cuban government proclaims Guevara "a Cuban citizen by birth" in recognition of his role in the triumph of the revolutionary forces
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| 1961 | Invasion of Cuba | |
| Bay of Pigs Ordered by Castro to a command post in Cuba's westernmost Pinar del Rˇo province where he was involved in fending off a decoy force
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| 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | |
| Guevara plays a key role in bringing to Cuba the Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles that precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962
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| 1965 | Invasion of Congo | |
| Guevara's aim is to export the Cuban Revolution by instructing local Simba fighters in communist ideology and foco strategies of guerrilla warfare
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| The Cuban operation is carried out in support of the pro-Patrice Lumumba Marxist Simba movement in the Congo-Kinshasa (formerly Belgium Congo, later Zaire and currently the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
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| 24th April Guevara, his second-in-command Victor Dreke, and twelve of the Cuban expeditionaries arrived in the Congo, a contingent of approximately 100 Afro-Cubans join them soon afterwards
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| Nov Collaborates with guerrilla leader Laurent-D‚sir‚ Kabila,Kabila, who helps Lumumba supporters lead a revolt that is suppressed in November by the Congolese army
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| Nov The National Security Agency intercepts all of incoming and outgoing transmissions via equipment aboard the USNS Valdez, a floating listening post which continuously cruises the Indian Ocean off Dar-es-Salaam
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| 1966 | Rebellion | |
| Nanchahuazu Believes Bolivia is ripe for Cuban style revolution, establishes an HQ at Nanchahuazu
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| 1967 | Arrest | |
| 8th Oct Quebrada del Yuro Arrested while organizing guerrilla resistance in Bolivia & executed
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| 1967 | Battle of Quebrada del Yuro | |
| 8th Oct Quebrada del Yuro Bolivian Special Forces are notified of the location of Guevara's guerrilla encampment by an informant, the encampment is encircled, and Guevara captured while leading a detachment with Sime˘n Cuba Sarabia in the Quebrada del Yuro
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| 9th Oct Quebrada del Yuro Guevara is taken to a dilapidated schoolhouse in the nearby village of La Higuera where he was held overnight
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| 1967 | Death | |
| 9th Oct Death of Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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| 15th Oct Castro acknowledges that Guevara is dead and proclaims three days of public mourning throughout Cuba
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| 1967 | Ej‚rcito de Liberaci˘n Nacional de Bolivia | |
| 9th Oct Guevara's guerrilla force, of about 50 and operates as the ELN (Ej‚rcito de Liberaci˘n Nacional de Bolivia, is well equipped and scores early successes against Bolivian regulars in the mountainous Camiri region
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| 1967 | Execution | |
| 9th Oct Executed while organizing guerrilla resistance in Bolivia
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