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1793
From TLP
Governor-General Galbaud flees the Saint-Domingue civil war with 10,000 white refugees and 100 ships, bound for Baltimore.
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January
- As a result of the French Revolution, King Louis XVI is executed in Paris, on January 21. See the image: Execution of Louis XVI.
February
- Toussaint and troops begin fighting for Spain.
April
- On April 11 the former Governor-General of Saint-Domingue Blanchelande is executed in Paris on the guillotine.
May
- On May 6 General Galbaud arrives in Le Cap; he had been dispatched from France to take over the command in Saint-Domingue.
August
- On August 29 French commissioner Léger Félicité Sonthonax issues a decree to abolish slavery in the northern part of Saint-Domingue under his control.
September
- On September 9 after having received orders to occupy Saint-Domingue, the governor of Jamaica received orders to occupy Saint-Domingue and dispatches an expedition of 500 men under command of Colonel Whitelocke.
November
- In November of 1793 the French Republican Calendar was adopted. Therefore many documents in the French colony Saint-Domingue, such as the letters of Toussaint Louverture, use this calendar for the next decade.
- On November 5 Léger Félicité Sonthonax publishes his Broadside defending his decree to abolish slavery in the colony.
See also
- Decree abolishing slavery in the North of Saint-Domingue - Text of the original Creole language version published by Sonthonax.
