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1492
Christopher Colombus visits the Dominican Republic.
Colombus visits the Dominican Republic and nick names it Hispaniola, or Little Spain. -
Spain cedes its porton of Hispaniola island to france.
France wanted more than the western part of Hispaniola, so they ask Spain to give them their eastern part. -
Spain retakes Santo Domingo following revolt by Spanish Creoles.
After 13 years, they retake their land, after ceding their land to France. -
Uprising against Spanish rules is followed by brief period of independence.
The Spaniards get a period of independence, after they had retaken Santo Domingo from the Spanish. -
Haitian President Jean-Pierre Boyer marches his troops into Santo Domingo and annexes it.
After the land being fully taken by one country, Jean-Pierre Boyer annexes Santo Domingo, due to it not being ruled by the Spaniards and the Spanish. -
Dominican Republic becomes an independent country.
This date marks the Dominican republic independence day, celebrated annually during carnival. -
Boyer overthrown; Santo Domingo declares its independence and becomes the Dominican Republic.
Santo Domingo doesn't want to be part of an annex anymore, and claims itself as it's own country -
President Pedro Santana returns the Dominican Republic to Spanish rule.
President Pedro Santana reunites the country to the spanish. -
The second Dominican Republic proclaimed.
After 1863-1864; the event where Spain withdrew from the annexation of the Dominican Republic, The Dominican Republic was proclaimed by another country for the second time. -
Dominican Republic's first president.
Danilo Medina Sanchez was the Dominican Republic's first president.
