Bits of Cuban History

Introduced in 1866 by a group of Cuban students who had studied in American universities, the first team was called “Habana.”  Leopoldo de Sola was the first league president, Antonio […]

These have been: [Of the República en armas] Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y del Castillo (October 10, 1868 – October 27,1873) Salvador Cisneros Betancourt (October 1873- June 1875) Juan Bautista

Religious toleration was an innovation of the 1762-1763 British occupation but had no immediate consequences. Opposed to both Cuba’s established Roman Catholic Church and to the rationalism (in the form

The Spanish empire in the Americas was carefully regulated to create societies subservient to the Spanish Crown. Church establishment, the patronato real, meant that religious and political affairs were never clearly

Six thousand American troops participated in the British occupation of Havana in 1762-3, but the island was exchanged for Florida at the peace treaty of 1763. The independent United Stated

Indians reached pre-Columbian Cuba in three waves of settlers, followed by the arrival of the Caribs, whose settlement was aborted by the coming of the Spaniards. The initial Spanish population

Apart from the loss of much of its early population to the conquests of Mexico, the Spanish Main, and Florida, and the departure of occasional wealthy Cubans pursuing business opportunities

The battleship sent to Key West in 1898 as a symbol of a strong United States naval force ready to counter any anti-US conspiracies in Havana.  With Spanish approval, it

The royal Tribunal del Santo Oficio was established in Spain in 1478, independent of the Papal Inquisition, to preserve the purity of the Church.  As the threat from Protestantism grew in Europe,

Spanish institution brought to the New World to deal with the Indians, groups of whom would be assigned to an encomendero entrusted with Christianizing them, with the right to their