Timeline of Events in Haitian Revolutionary History - Revision history

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 * '''1793''' - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Genet Citizen Genet] affair exacerbates tension between America and France.
 * '''1793-01-21''' - Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette executed in Paris. ([[Kennedy]], p. 138)
-* '''1793 - February''' - England is at war with France and Spain.  [[Toussaint]] and troops begin fighting for Spain.  Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin.  Governor-General [[Galbaud]] flees the [[Saint-Domingue]] civil war with 10,000 white refugees and 100 ships, bound for Baltimore.
+* '''1793 - February''' - England is at war with France and Spain.  [[Toussaint]] and troops begin fighting for Spain.  Governor-General [[Galbaud]] flees the [[Saint-Domingue]] civil war with 10,000 white refugees and 100 ships, bound for Baltimore.
 * '''1793-08-29''' - Commissioner [[Sonthonax]] emancipates 15,000 slaves (basically freeing the northern province of the island) who had helped to defeat General [[Galbaud]].  ALSO Toussaint uses the name L'Ouverture in an official paper for the first time.
 * '''1793-09-19''' - 500 British troops under [[Whitelocke]] land in [[St. Domingue]] and take [[Jeremie]]. ([[Parkinson]], p. 74)  They intend to restore order, make Saint Domingue a British colony, and reinstate slavery. They will remain for five years.

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 * '''1785''' - England acknowledges the USA's independence. ([[Parkinson]], p. 26)
 * '''[[1787]]''' - [[St. Domingue]] is at height of its production ([[James]], before p. 53)
-* '''[[1788]]''' - La [[Societé des Amis des Noirs]] founded in Paris. The planter Le Jeune successfully defends himself against charges of burning two Negresses legs. ([[Parkinson]], p. 20).  The island's population at this time consisted of 42,000 whites, 38,000 slaves and 8000 plantations.  The military forces consisted of 5,000 men.  80,000 sailors were engaged in trade.  "[[St. Domingue]], the 'Pearl of the Antilles', produced and exported more sugar than the entire British West Indies put together." ([[Parkinson]], p. 22)
+* '''[[1788]]''' - La [[Societé des Amis des Noirs]] founded in Paris. The planter Le Jeune successfully defends himself against charges of burning two black women's legs. ([[Parkinson]], p. 20).  The island's population at this time consisted of 42,000 whites, 38,000 slaves and 8000 plantations.  The military forces consisted of 5,000 men.  80,000 sailors were engaged in trade.  "[[St. Domingue]], the 'Pearl of the Antilles', produced and exported more sugar than the entire British West Indies put together." ([[Parkinson]], p. 22)
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 * '''1803-02-02''' - The poem ''[[To Toussaint Louverture - poem by Wordsworth|'To Toussaint Louverture']]''  by William Wordsworth is published in the ''Morning Post'' in London.
 * '''1803-March''' - Leclerc’s successor, [[General Rochambeau]], worsens the massacres in St. Domingue, bringing man-eating dogs from Cuba to hunt blacks.

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 * '''1803-05-18''' - [[Catherine Flon]] sews the first red and blue [[Haitian flag]]. This event is commemorated on Haitian Flag Day.
 * '''1803-11-18''' - At the [[Battle of Vertières]], [[Dessalines]] and [[Pétion]] deliver the final defeat to the French troops now led by [[Rochambeau]].
-* '''1803-11-19''' [[French Capitulation in Saint-Domingue (1803)|French Capitulation in Saint-Domingue]] - Document signed on the day following the Battle of Vertières.
+* '''1803-11-19''' - [[French Capitulation in Saint-Domingue (1803)|French Capitulation in Saint-Domingue]] - Document signed on the day following the Battle of Vertières.
 * '''1803-11-28''' - [[Proclamation of Independence]] signed by Dessalines, [[Christophe]] and Clerveaux.
 * '''1803 - December''' - The last French troops leave [[Saint-Domingue]].

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 * '''[[1902]]''' the Haitian Admiral Hammerton Killick, to avoid to surrender his vessel "Crête-à-Pierrot" in the bay of [[Gonaives]] to the german gunship Panther, blew it up and sank with it .
 * '''[[1904]]''' - On occasion of the 100th anniversary of the success of the Haitian Revolution and the subsequent [[Declaration of Independence]], the country adopts a new national anthem, [[La Dessalinienne]] in honor of [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines]].
-* ''''1904 - 12 -06''' U.S. President Roosevelt introduces the [[Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine]] formulating the neo-colonial policies in the new century.
+* '''1904 - 12 -06''' U.S. President Roosevelt introduces the [[Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine]] formulating the neo-colonial policies in the new century.
 * '''[[1915]]''' The U.S. occupation of [[Haiti]] begins on July 28, 1915. [[Charlemagne Massena Péralte]], a Haitian army commander in [[Léogane]], resigns - he was refusing to surrender without a fight.
 * '''[[1934]]''' The occupation of Haiti by U.S. forces ends formally in mid August of 1934, ending nineteen years of United States military rule.

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 * '''1863-01-01''' - Emancipation becomes law in the U.S.
 * '''1865-12-18''' - 13th Amendment to U.S. Constitution. Abolition of slavery.
-* '''1869''' - [[Ebenezer Basset]] is appointed the U.S. Minister Resident and Consul General to Haiti.
+* '''1869''' - [[Ebenezer Bassett]] is appointed the U.S. Minister Resident and Consul General to Haiti.
 * '''1889''' - [[Frederick Douglass]] is appointed the U.S. minister to Haiti.
 * '''1891''' - Frederick Douglass resigns from his post as the U.S. representative to Haiti in protest of U.S. government policies.

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 * '''[[1805]]-05-20''' - Jean-Jacques Dessalines promulgates the [[Haitian Constitution of 1805]].
 * '''[[1806]]-10-17''' - [[Dessalines]] is assassinated at [[Pont-Rouge]].  [[Henry Christophe]] will become dictator of northern [[Haiti]].
 * '''1808''' - [[Napoléon]] puts his brother Joseph on the Spanish throne. Deposes King Carlos (Charles) IV and his son, Ferdinand VII.
 * '''1809''' - The British help the Spanish regain Santo Domingo from Haiti.

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 * '''1833''' - Britain formally recognizes Haiti.
 * '''1838-06-09''' - Ratification of treaty in which France recognizes Haiti’s final and complete independence.
-* '''1842-02-26''' -  James McCune Smith delivers his speech [[Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haytian Revolutions]] in New York.
+* '''1841-02-26''' -  James McCune Smith delivers his speech [[Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haytian Revolutions]] in New York.
 * '''1843-03-13''' - Gen. [[Boyer]] is forced to resign as president of Haiti. Expatriates to Paris.
 * '''1834-12-31''' - Charles Hérard Aine (Riviere Hérard) is appointed president of Haiti.

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 * '''1889''' - [[Frederick Douglass]] is appointed the U.S. minister to Haiti.
 * '''1891''' - Frederick Douglass resigns from his post as the U.S. representative to Haiti in protest of U.S. government policies.
-* '''1892-09-07-09'''  José Martí, a leader of the Cuban independence movement and a poet and writer, visits the cities of [[Gonaives]], [[Cap Haïtien]] and Fort Liberte.
+* '''1892-09-07-09'''  José Martí, a leader of the Cuban independence movement and a poet and writer, visits the cities of [[Gonaives]], [[Cap Haïtien]] and [[Fort Liberte]].
 * '''1893-01-02''' - In the 90th year of Haitian independence, the former U.S. minister to Haiti Frederick Douglass, holds a [[Frederick Douglass lecture on Haiti (1893)|lecture on Haiti]] at the Chicago World's Fair.