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Blacks Revolt
Blacks revolt to improve equality and freedom -
Slave revolt erupted
In 1791, a slave revolt erupted on the French colony, and Toussaint-Louverture, a former slave, took control of the rebels. -
Louis XVI is killed
Louis XVI was executed because people were tired of being taxed and treason. -
Toussaint Louverture helps Spain
Toussaint Louverture helped Spain get rid of Britain for peace and equality -
Louverture helps France
Louverture helps France because they were abolishing slavery -
Toussaint-Louverture made peace
In 1795 Toussaint-Louverture made peace with revolutionary France following its abolishment of slavery. -
Peace Treaty
Spain signs a peace treaty with France -
Haiti gained their independence
In 1804, General Dessalines assumed dictatorial power, and Haiti became the second independent nation in the Americas. -
Dessalines gets rid of French
He wanted to get rid of French so he had them killed for being in Haiti. -
Imperial Constitution
Dessalines formulates the first constitution of Haiti as an independent country. -
Battle of Sibert
ends with the division of Haiti into the southern Republic of Haiti under Alexandre Pétion and the northern State of Haiti under Christophe. -
Pétion is elected President of the Republic
Pétion is elected president of haiti. -
Henri Code
The Kingdom of Haiti establishes a civil code -
Pétion dies President of the Republic of Haiti, dies of fever
President Pétion of the Republic of Haiti, dies of fever. -
Northern and southern Haiti are unified
Boyer promulgates the Republican Constitution in Christophe's northern state; northern and southern Haiti are unified
