1789

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Summer

The summer of the year 1789 marks the start of the French Revolution. This revolution had an profound impact on the Haitian Revolution, whose beginnings are usually dated to the meeting at Bois Caïman, the event that started the Boukman Rebellion in 1791.

August

On August 26, 1789 the French National Constituent Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

October

Julien Raimond]] and, the French abolitionist and member of the Société des Amis des Noirs, Henri Grégoire meet.