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Hurricane in Cuba

When
1768
Where
Cuba
Episodes
1

A hurricane is recorded as striking Cuba on October 15, 1768, during the Festival of Santa Teresa, with a reported toll of hundreds killed. These details come only from the legacy record; the sole supplied passage establishes Cuba's general proneness to frequent hurricanes, not the storm's date, casualties, or any royal relief precedent.

Episodes

  1. 1768 (day-level date of October 15 unverified) · CubaHurricane reportedly strikes Cuba during the Festival of Santa Teresa

    The legacy record reports a powerful hurricane sweeping across Cuba on October 15, 1768, during the Festival of Santa Teresa, killing hundreds; no supplied passage corroborates these details.

Background and detail

Background. Cuba is an island country in the Caribbean, situated at the convergence of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean. Its warm surrounding sea and position across the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico make the country prone to frequent hurricanes, providing the environmental context for the 1768 storm.

Assessment of the 1768 Hurricane. The supplied passages do not describe the October 15, 1768 hurricane, its path across Cuba, casualties during the Festival of Santa Teresa, or any royal relief measures by King Carlos III. The only sourced material is Cuba's general hurricane proneness; the event's specifics rest solely on the legacy hint and remain unconfirmed.

Sources

  1. Cuba Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-22

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.