CHE TIMELINE

1928 June 14, Ernesto Che Guevara was born in the city of Rosario, an important town in Argentina

4 years

1930 suffer first asitma attack.

1933 Guevara family moves to alta gracia.

1934 Home schooding bengins.

1937 Enrolls in primary school.

1942 Begins high school at Colegio Nacionl Dean Funes.

1943 Guevara family moves to Cordoba.

1946 Graduates from Colegio Nacionl Dean Funes.

1947 Guevara family moves to Buenos Aires : Guevara Begins Madical School.

che family

1948 He traveled around the Argentinian provinces.

1950 He Travels on motorbaike through northen Argentina.

1951 Works for six months as male nurse adoard petrol thankers.

1952 Trabveis through latian America with Alberto granado, volunteens at leprosarium in Pure.

1953 Back in Buenos Aires, he finished his studies in medicines.

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

1955  he met Fidel Castro the real leader of cuba who told him about his plans to invade Cuba. He joined the group and started his military training.

che & fidel

1956 Arrives in Cuba adoard the “Gramma”

1957  Che was named commander. By the end of the year, the war in Cuba entered the decisive stage.

1958  Che's column fought its final battle and overtook Santa Clara. :Batista flees Cuba.

1959  Appointed  Commande of La Cabanna fortress: named President of bthe National Bank Cuba.

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.

1961  Appointed Minister of Industries.

1962 The Russian rocket crisis obligates him to take his military place in Pinar del Rio.

Guevara in 1960, walking through the streets of Havana with his wife

1963  Che sent Masetti and a group of Cubans to organize a guerrilla in the northern region of Argentina. He wrote "Pasajes de la guerra revolucionaria" (Revolutionary war passages").

1964 Decides to leave Cuba:speak at the UN:travels in Africa.

965  he moved to Brazzaville, Congo, where he discussed the anti-imperialistic struggle in Africa with president Alphonse Massemba Debat.

1966  he had to leave Congo and went back to Cuba. From March to June he travelled through Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Bolivia.

1967 Leads guernila operations:captured at Quebrada del Yuro and summarily executed in La Higuera.