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Name: Haiti

Type: Polity

Start: 1804 AD

End: 1804 AD

Nation: haiti

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This article is about the specific polity Haiti and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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With the Haitian Revolution, Haiti became independent from France. It was the first independent country of Latin America, second of the Americas after the United States and the only country resulting from a succesfull slave revolution.

Establishment


  • January 1804: From the city of Gonaïves, Dessalines officially declared the former colony's independence, renaming it "Haiti" after the indigenous Arawak name.
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    1. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars


    Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.

    1.1.Haitian Revolution

    Was the succesful insurrection by self-liberated slaves of the colony of Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti) against French rule leading to the creation of the independent country of Haiti, the first independent nation of Latin America and the Caribbean.


    Disestablishment


  • September 1804: The Governor-General of Haiti, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, created the empire on September 22, 1804.
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