Classwork 9/27



1492 - Christopher Columbus lands and names the island Hispaniola, or Little Spain.
1496 - Spanish establish first European settlement in western hemisphere at Santo Domingo, now capital of Dominican Republic.
1697 - Spain cedes western part of Hispaniola to France, and this becomes Haiti, or Land of Mountains.
1801 - A former black slave who became a guerrilla leader, Toussaint Louverture, conquers Haiti, abolishing slavery and proclaiming himself governor-general of an autonomous government over all Hispaniola.
1804 - Haiti becomes independent; former slave Jean-Jacques Dessalines declares himself emperor.
1806 - Dessalines assassinated and Haiti divided into a black-controlled north and a mulatto-ruled south
1818-43 - Pierre Boyer unifies Haiti, but excludes blacks from power.
1915 - US invades Haiti following black-mulatto friction, which it thought endangered its property and investments in the country.
1934 - US withdraws troops from Haiti, but maintains fiscal control until 1947.
1986 - Baby Doc flees Haiti in the wake of mounting popular discontent and is replaced by Lieutenant-General Henri Namphy as head of a governing council.
2002 July - Haiti is approved as a full member of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) trade bloc.
2008 August/September - Nearly 800 people are killed and hundreds are left injured as Haiti is hit by a series of devastating storms and hurricanes.
2012 October - Hundreds protest against the high cost of living and call for the resignation of President Martelly. They accuse the president of corruption and failure to deliver on his promises to alleviate poverty.


Haiti's fight for independence/Toussaint L'Ouverture
1971- slave revolt erupted in a French Colony
- The leader of the rebels was Toussaint L'Ouverture
- He was a former slave in the colony
- organized a guerrille war and was able to defeat the French
- In 1795 he made peace with France after there was an abolishment of slavery
- He became the governor of the island and in 1801 freed the Spanish portion of the island.
- Toussaint was arrested and tortured and died in April 1803 because Napoleon wanted to introduced slavery back into Haiti.
- They defeated the French with British help and became the second independent country in the America's in 1804.

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