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- Les autres actions du Che
- Lettre d'adieu du Che à Fidel Castro
- La crise de la Baie des Cochons
- Che Guevara, la chanson en son honneur
- Lettre d'adieu du Che à ses enfants
- English Biography of Ernesto Che Guevara Part 1
- English Biography of Ernesto Che Guevara Part 2
- Biografia di Ernesto Che Guevara - Parte I
- Biografia di Ernesto Che Guevara - Parte II
- Biografía de Ernesto Che Guevara. 1ª parte
- Biografía de Ernesto Che Guevara. 2ª parte.

28th August 1955

Ernesto Che Guevara marries Hilda, who will give him a daughter in 56, Hilda Guevara Gadea.


April 1956

Ernesto, who is following Cuban revolutionary training in Mexico, is arrested. Not long after his release, he separates from Hilda and reveals his revolutionary activities to his parents.


2nd December 1956

Che disembarks with 80 men to Cuba and settles the guerrilla revolutionaries in the Sierra Maestra. Che shows that he is an excellent fighter in the anti-Batista cause.


1958

Che creates Radio Rebelde, the revolutionary radio station. He actively fights in Sierra Maestra, then in the Sierra del Escambray, and finally, in the Santa Clara battle, which will be decisive for the Revolutionary movement.


January 1959

On the third Che arrives at Havana, followed by the victorious entry of Fidel on the 8th. His parents, who he has not seen him for six years come to Cuba, followed by Hilda and their daughter who come to live in Havana.


1st January 1959

Cuba is liberated and Batista is exiled.


9th February 1959

The government gives Cuban citizenship to Che for his services.


2nd June 1959

Ernesto Che Guevara marries Aleida March Torres, who he met a year earlier. He officially works for the Cuban government, who regularly sends him on assignments. He is sent to Egypt, Soudan, India, Burma, Indonesia, Ceylan, Japan, Morocco, Yugoslavia and to Spain. He takes on the duties of the Head of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, of the Head of Industry and Agrarian Reform, then at the end of November, President of the National Bank of Cuba.


1980

Che continues his official visits with the economic mission of Cuba, in the USSR, Czechoslovakia, the FRG and the Popular Republic of China. The USA enacts a commercial embargo on Cuba.


3rd January 1961

The USA ends diplomatic relations with Cuba. Not long after, Che is appointed Minister of Industry and a member of the leading assembly.


17th April 1961

1,500 mercenaries armed by the CIA try to embark on the Giron beach in the Bay of Pigs. Three days later they are halted by the Revolutionary army.


4th August 1961
Che, at the head of the Cuban delegation during the Amériques de Punta del Este conference, is welcomed by thousands of people who chant, “Long live the Cuban Revolution”.


20th May 1962

His son Camilo is born named in honour of his friend Camilo Cienfuegos.


October 1962

During the ‘October Crisis’ Che commands the troops of Pinar del Rio.


14th June 1963

His daughter Celia is born.


19th March 1964

His son Omar Perez is born, the son from his relationship with Lidia Rosa Lopez. During this year Che represents Cuba at the UN conference for business and development at Geneva. As the head of the Cuban delegation he also goes to France, Algeria, Czechoslovakia and the USSR for the 47th Anniversary of the October Revolution and to New York for the General Assembly of the UN.


1965

At the start of the year, Che travels to China, Mali, the Congo, Guinea, Ghana, Tanzania, Egypt and Algeria again. On his way back, he asks to be discharged of his responsibilities, in order to retake charge of the army for the people of the world.


October 1965

Che is in the Congo when he learns of the death of his mother.


3rd November 1966

He secretly enters Bolivia under the name of Adolfo Mena Gonzalez in order to found the National Liberation Army of Bolivia.


8th October 1967

After having been injured and arrested by the Bolivian army, he is executed at 1: 10 in the village school of Higuera.


18th October 1967

At the Place de la Révolution, Fidel Castro announces before half a million Cuban people: "You have physically disappeared, but your image and your ideas stay and will stay present in us, because those people will never kill them with bullets”.