| Day | Year | Historical dates of Cuba in the month of May |
| 1 | 1961 | Nationalization of private schools. Inauguration of Radio Havana-Cuba Radio Station. |
| 2 | 1959 | Commander in Chief Fidel Castro attended the 21’s meeting. |
| 3 | 1960 | Arrival to Sierra Maestra Mountain Range of the first voluntary teachers. |
| 5 | 1895 | Meeting of Jose Marti, Maximo Gomez and Antonio Maceo in La Mejorana. |
| 7 | 1797 | Birth in Bayamo of Jose Antonio Saco. |
| 1839 | Jose Maria Heredia died in Mexico. |
| 1870 | Patriot Domingo Goicuria garroted to death. |
| 8 | 1796 | Introduction in Cuba of sugar cane, under the name of Otahiti or Tahiti. |
| 1935 | Murder of Antonio Guiteras Holmes in El Morrillo, Matanzas. |
| 1967 | Cuban revolutionary Antonio Briones Montoto killed in Venezuelan seashore. |
| 10 | 1869 | Guaimaro burned. |
| 11 | 1873 | Major General Ignacio Agramonte killed in the fields of Jimaguayu. |
| 15 | 1795 | Foundation of San Antonio Abad or San Antonio de los Baños. |
| 1955 | Fidel and his comrades in arms in the attack to Moncada Garrison released from prison. |
| 1956 | Assassination of young revolutionary Ruben Aldama. |
| 16 | 1938 | Opening edition of newspaper “HOY.” |
| 1961 | Foundation of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP). |
| 17 | 1959 | The Land Reform Act enacted from “La Plata”, Sierra Maestra. |
| 1962 | Foundation of the Institute of History. |
| 19 | 1895 | Death in Dos Rios of Apostle Jose Marti. |
| 20 | 1902 | Inauguration of the rogue Republic, under Tomas Estrada Palma’s presidency. |
| 1912 | Beginning of the so-called “War of the Colored Independents.” The rebels were horrible massacred. |
| 22 | 1765 | Birth of economist Francisco de Arango y Parreño. |
| 1903 | Signing of Cuba-USA Permanent Treaty. The Yankees imposed and enforced the Platt Amendment for many years, until 1934. |
| 23 | 1866 | Birth of academician Tranquilino Sandalio de Noda. |
| 24 | 1957 | Landing of expeditionaries aboard the boat “Corinthia.” |
| 25 | 1848 | Attempted annexation of Cuba by James K. Polk. |
| 26 | 1964 | Inauguration of the “Felipe Poey” Museum of Natural History at the Cuban Academy of Sciences. |
| 28 | 1957 | Victory of the rebels against the tyranny forces in the battle of El Uvero. The expeditionaries of the boat “Corinthia” were slaughtered in Cabonico. |
| 29 | 1586 | Pirate Francis Drake sails in sight of Havana Port. |
| 1934 | Platt Amendment repealed. |
| 31 | 1898 | US Navy shelled Santiago de Cuba City and interfered in the Spanish-Cuban War. |
| Note: | International Mother’s Day is celebrated the second Sunday of this month. |
| | (Translated by: Pedro A. Fanego) |
