History of Havana

Catholic archdiocese in Cuba

1762 battle

Cuban historian (1942-2020)

1748 naval battle between British and Spanish squadrons in the War of Jenkins' Ear

promenade in Havana, Cuba

Cuban newspaper

The '''''' was a protest on 5 August 1994, in which thousands of Cubans took to the streets around the Malecón in Havana to demand freedom and express frustration with the government. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Cuba fell into a crippling economic crisis that had many citizens looking to flee the island. On the day of the protest, the Cuban police blocked people from boarding tugboats leaving Havana, prompting thousands of citizens to storm the streets in the largest anti-government demonstration Cuba had seen since the Cuban Revolution. In the following week

Havana Tunnel under the Havana Bay was built by the French company Societé de Grand Travaux de Marseille between 1957-58 paid for by the Batista government.

the Iglesia del Espíritu Santo at #161 Calle Acosta was built in 1635 on the corner of the corner of Calles Cuba and Acosta by a fraternity of Afro-Cuban ex slaves