Henry Reeve was born and raised in Brooklyn (New York), on April 4, 1850, his father was a Protestant clergyman named Alexander Reeve and his mother Maddie Carrol; they formed

On July 22nd, 1872, when the situation of the Liberation Army was still very difficult, few men, poorly armed and with scarce ammunition, faced off under the command of Major

From an early age, Brigida lived in the countryside, which does not mean that she did not have an adequate education for that reason. With the revolutionary movement of Narciso

He was born in Camagüey city on September 8th, 1917. He was always a man of great qualities with a firm and reserved character, for which he earned the esteem

Floirán Quirós Iglesias was born in our city on April 18th, 1931, he was an outstanding revolutionary fighter who fought against Batista’s tyranny. He is the son of Gilberto and

On April 10th, 1967, the Cuban internationalist fighter Jesús Suárez Gayol, a member of the July 26th Movement and one of Che’s guerrilla men in Bolivia, known as El Rubio,

Camagüey city became scenes of the struggle against the brutal tyranny of Fulgencio Batista, as is the case of March 2nd, 1958. A revolutionary command lead by one of the

On January 5th, 1936, Álvaro Morell Álvarez was born in our city. From an early age, Álvaro’s concern and worry was seen in the face of all injustice and mistreatment

Ernesto Lucas Ruiz was a prominent revolutionary fighter who was born on February 20th, 1907 in Camagüey, when he was only 10 years old, he began to work as a

The Heritage Classrooms is a project created by the Office of the Historian of Camagüey city (OHCC) with the aim of preserving the material and spiritual memory of the province,

On December 8th, 1956, the expeditionary of the yacht Granma Cándido González Morales was assassinated near the Toro River, East. Because of his qualities, his comrades made him the leader

The site known as Ceja de Bonilla, located about 27 km northwest of the city of Puerto Príncipe, on November 28th, 1868, one of the most important actions was carried

Sabino Pupo Milián was born in the East province in 1895, into a humble family. Since he was a child he dedicated himself to agricultural work with his brothers. In

Gregorio Benítez Pérez was one of the first from Camaguey to take up arms in November 1868 and due to his outstanding participation in the war, he reached the rank

On September 4th, 1961, the José Raúl Capablanca Chess Academy opens its doors in our city, with the purpose of further promoting the development of the science game. The property

Manuel Boza Agramonte was born in Camagüey on August 19th, 1820, he came from a family that had a high social and economic position. After the outbreak of the Ten

By: Daris Rondón Laurencio &  Yaneli Acosta Galindo On July 26th, 1953, there was an assault on the Moncada barracks, in Santiago de Cuba, and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, in

On June 16th, 1900, the first elections were held in Cuba, after the end of Spanish sovereignty to elect mayors and other municipal officials. Given the impossibility of applying the

After the events of March 13th, 1957, the attempt to execute Fulgencio Batista in his own place, the fall of José Antonio Echeverría and the persecution of young people by

The young student Jesús Suárez Gayol is immersed in the shocked situation produced by the assault on power and will soon stand out within the heterogeneous mass, which will place

Carmen Zayas-Bazán Hidalgo was born in Puerto Príncipe, Camagüey, on May 29th, 1853. She was the third daughter of Francisco de Zayas-Bazán y Varona and Isabel María Hidalgo y Cabanillas,

Rodolfo Ramírez Esquivel was a revolutionary, a member of the July 26th Movement, born in the Amancio Rodríguez municipality, Las Tunas province. At the Camagüey Professional School of Commerce, he

Camagüey was the scene of important events during the clandestine struggle and the Rebel Army, as well as the context of our patriotic, political and social history of this entire