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Jan 1, 1492
Columbus Discovery
He discovers the island and names Hispaniola.Hispaniola becomes Dom. Rep. (& Haiti).- Dunno the date so I put Jan. then for the first that year 1, second 2...
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Period: Jan 1, 1492 to
Country Discovery to Today
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Jan 1, 1496
First colony in new world: Santo Domingo
This will later become the dominican republic -
Treaty causes Haiti section to be French property & D.R. Spanish property
This created the countries we know today -
Uprising against Spanish causes independance
Dominican republic is idependent -
Haiti appropriation
Not independant for the time being -
Re-independant
Free ountry once more -
Most recent flag
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Period: to
Spanish Apropriation
Not a indepandant country anymore -
Period: to
Un-apropreation
Spanish withdraws its apropreation -
U.S. capture attempt
But they failed -
Constitutional Govenment
Now theres a proper govenment -
Period: to
Trujillo dictatorship
This was bad because Trujillo was corrupt and in charge -
Haitian Massacar
This caused a bad relationship between them and Haiti -
Trujillo assasination
No more Dominican Dictotorship -
Twin hurricane strike
This deteriorated the economy thus the wage stays the same but pices go up possibaly causeing starvation -
Leonel Fernández presidency
I. Good: ending isolationism and improving trade relationships
II. Bad: Not trying to stop corruption or poverty -
Hurricane Georges strike
This cost millions of $s in damage
