#4 However, Siamese cats gained incredible popularity, and interest in their brown cousins faded away.
And the Second World War, which skated through all the breeds of cats bred in Europe, made them disappear.
#5 At the beginning of 1950 in Great Britain, a group of lovers of these cats began joint work on the revival of the breed.
The group was called The Havana Group, and later - The Chestnut Brown Group. It was through their efforts that the modern breed of Havana cats arose.
#6 Crossings of Siamese cats with ordinary black cats gave the result: a new breed was born, a distinctive feature of which was the chocolate color.
The breed was registered in 1959, however, only in Great Britain, in the GCCF.