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1492
Christopher Columbus finds land
Christopher Columbus find first Spanish community near Cap-Haitian -
1503
African slaves
Africans brought to Hispaniola as slaves -
The French Land
The French settle Tortuga Island and northwestern Hispaniola, naming the colony Saint-Dominique -
Slave Rebellions
Slave rebellions in north Saint-Dominique led by Francois Mackandal -
Haitian Revolutuion
Dutty Boukman and Cecile Fatiman held a vodou ceremony in Bois-Caiman where slaves vowed to die for liberty -
Full Citizenship
France's legislative assembly voted to give fill citizenship and equal rights to all people free of color -
Slaves free
The France National Convention declared the abolition of slavery in all French colonies, so making the abolition of slavery legal and applying to all of France and its colonies -
Constitution of 1801
The constitution of 1801 was wrote, under which Toussaint L'Ouverture was to be Governor -
Coming together
Boyer promulgates the Republican Constitution in Christopher's northern state; northern and southern Haiti are unified -
Jeanne
Hurricane Jeanne kills over 1,900 people