Haitian Revolution Timeline

By bwishart98
  • Sep 7, 1400

    Taino People

    Between 500,000 and 1 million Taino people live on an island of Ayti.
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus lands on Hispaniolia

    Columbus lands on an island can calls it Hispaninolia. This island was inhabited by nice, friendly people from Hati called Taino

  • Sugar Cane

    Sugar cane was introduced to Hispaninolia. Saint Dominque (French) became the wealthiest, most resourc rich colonies of its time

  • Treaty of Ryswich

    Through the Treaty of Ryswhich, France gained control of one-third of HIspaniola and namied it Saint-Dominque

  • Suppling Europe

    Saint Dominqye supplied half of Europe with sugar, coffee, and cotton, also French Revolution begins

  • The affranchi

    In Saint Dominque, the affranchi (free people of color) demand egaul rights with free whites from the DOTROM, the citizen (life, liberty, property. Men where bornand remian free and equal. Women didnt have natural rights and whites wanted to be like them) Also the representatives of the affranchi went to France for rights but were denied

  • French Government

    The National Assembly forms a constitutional.
    The French government grants full rights to free blacks in Saint-Dominque. Also revokes its decision to grant grant free blacks equal right and send commissoners to reestablish slavery

  • rights

    Louis XVI grants free blacks equal rights

  • France

    France is officially abolishes slavery in France and all of its colonial possessions

  • Treaty of Basel

    it gaves its colony of Santo Domingo to FRance and withdraw its troops from the island

  • Toussaint L'Ouverture and Andre Rigaud

    Both pushed out most of the British

  • Napoleon

    The War of Knifes begins
    Napoleon is under pressure from French merchants to re-capture Saint-Dominque and reestablish slavery.

  • New Leader

    The War of Knifes has ended
    L'Ouverture is now leader of the colony

  • A Constitution

    The constitution abolishes slavery, so every citizen had equal right. This outlawed the practive of Voodoo. Napoleon view this as a threat

  • Independence

    Jean-Jacques Dessalines prclaims Haiti's independence and crowns himself emperor of Haiti