Che Guevara Timeline

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SHORT CHRONICLE OF A REVOLUTIONARY

1928
June 14, Ernesto Guevara was born in the city of Rosario, Argentina.

1932
Guevara's family moved to Alta Gracia, province of Cordoba, Argentina

1948
Ernesto Guevara traveled around the Argentinian provinces.

1951
December; he left for Chile and Peru with his friend Granado. Guevara lived for a short time in the leper colony of Huambo. Then he continued his journey to Bogata and later to Caracas.

1953
Back in Buenos Aires, he finished his studies in medicines. After that, he left for Bolivia with another friend, Ferrer. They planned to go to Venezuela, passing through Peru and staying for some time in Guayaquil, Ecuador. They met others Argentinians and decided to go to Central
America. They travelled through Panama, Costa Rica and Guatemala. There, Guevara met Hilda
Gadea, whom he would marry with later, in Mexico. Guevara got in touch with Peruvian exiles.

1954
June; invasion of Guatemala against Arbenz's goverment. Guevara had to escape to Mexico, where he met Cuban exiles.

1955
July; he met Fidel Castro who told him about his plans to invade Cuba. He joined the group and started his military training.

1956
December 2; disembarked on Cuba's south coast. December 18, the 12 survivors started the first guerrilla in the Sierra Maestra.

1957
June; Che was named commander. By the end of the year, the war in Cuba entered the decisive stage. Guevara was requested to make the journal Cuba Libre in the mountain range.

1958
December 29; Che's column fought its final battle and overtook Santa Clara. December 31, president Fulgencio Batista escaped to Santo Domingo.

1959
January 2; triumphal entrance of Che and Camilo Cienfuegos in La Habana. February; Che is declared Cuban born. On June 2, he married Aleida March. From june till august, Che travelled through Africa, Asia and Yugoslavia. On October 7, Fidel Castro named him head of the Industry
Department in the Agrarian Reform's National Institute. On November 26, he is named president of the National Bank.

1960
Che finished his book "Guerra de guerrillas"("Guerrilla warefare"), published under the responsibilty of the Rebel Department's Instruction Deparment. Its first edition is censored all over Latin America. On July 26, during the First Latin America Youth Congress, Che defined the
Cuban revolution as a marxist one. In October, he wrote "Nota para el estudio de la revolucion cubana" ("Notes for the studies about Cuba's revolution"), in which he reviewed the revolution's stages. From October 21 to Febrary 1961, he traveled to the socialist countries (in particular, to
China, Czechoslovakia and the USSR) as part of a commercial delegation.

1961
On February 23, he was named Minister for Industry and he quit the National Bank's presidency.

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