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Haitian Revolution and Toussaint L'Ouverture

  • Dec 28, 1492

    Columbus lands in Saint Dominigue

  • Jan 28, 1505

    Sugar plantations are introduced to the island of Hispanolia

  • Jan 28, 1508

    Spain send first offical cargo of African slaves to the New World

  • France colonizes the island of Hispanolia

  • First slave insurrection against the French

  • France has 2,000 slaves in Saint Domingue

  • Treaty of Ryswyck

  • Toussaint L'Ouverture is Born

  • Jean-Jacques Dessaline's is born

  • Slaves begin Revolutionary ideas

  • French Revolution begins

  • French National Assembly gives six seats to delegates from Saint Domingue

  • Freedom given to those bron to Free parents

  • Slave Uprising began

  • Toussaint joins slave revolt

  • Léger-Félicité Sonthonax arrives in Saint Domingue

  • Spain aids Slave Rebellion

  • Sonthonax declares all slaves free and L'Ouverture takes more leadership in the Haitian Revolution

  • Saint Dominigue asks France for Civil Rights

  • L'Ouverture declared Governor General for life

  • Toussaint L'Ouverture surenders to France

  • Toussaint L'Ouverture dies in French Prision

  • Haitian flag is born

  • Haitian Independence

  • Dessaline's named Emperor Jacques I of Haiti

  • Dessaline's ratifies Haiti's first constituion

  • France grants Haiti independence