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Republic of Cuba is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.

Cuba before the arrival of the Spanish: The Taíno (an Arawak people), the Guanahatabey and the Ciboney people.

Christopher Columbus landed on Cuba's

The first Spanish settlement in Cuba

The indigenous people were virtually wiped out due to Eurasian infectious diseases

The British in Cuba

Cuba become a protectorate of the United States.

the Cuban Communist Party in 1952.

Fidel Castro started a rebellion against the Batista government.

The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in October 1962