Dominican Republic

By Piguy
  • Columbus Discovery
    Jan 1, 1492

    Columbus Discovery

    He discovers the island and names Hispaniola.Hispaniola becomes Dom. Rep. (& Haiti).
    • Dunno the date so I put Jan. then for the first that year 1, second 2...
  • Period: Jan 1, 1492 to

    Country Discovery to Today

  • First colony in new world: Santo Domingo
    Jan 1, 1496

    First colony in new world: Santo Domingo

    This will later become the dominican republic
  • Treaty causes Haiti section to be French property & D.R. Spanish property

    Treaty causes Haiti section to be French property & D.R. Spanish property

    This created the countries we know today
  • Uprising against Spanish causes independance

    Uprising against Spanish causes independance

    Dominican republic is idependent
  • Haiti appropriation

    Haiti appropriation

    Not independant for the time being
  • Re-independant

    Re-independant

    Free ountry once more
  • Most recent flag

    Most recent flag

  • Period: to

    Spanish Apropriation

    Not a indepandant country anymore
  • Period: to

    Un-apropreation

    Spanish withdraws its apropreation
  • U.S. capture attempt

    U.S. capture attempt

    But they failed
  • Constitutional Govenment

    Constitutional Govenment

    Now theres a proper govenment
  • Period: to

    Trujillo dictatorship

    This was bad because Trujillo was corrupt and in charge
  • Haitian Massacar

    Haitian Massacar

    This caused a bad relationship between them and Haiti
  • Trujillo assasination

    Trujillo assasination

    No more Dominican Dictotorship
  • Twin hurricane strike

    Twin hurricane strike

    This deteriorated the economy thus the wage stays the same but pices go up possibaly causeing starvation
  • Leonel Fernández presidency

    Leonel Fernández presidency

    I. Good: ending isolationism and improving trade relationships
    II. Bad: Not trying to stop corruption or poverty
  • Hurricane Georges strike

    Hurricane Georges strike

    This cost millions of $s in damage