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Dominican Republic Timeline.

By Benjamin.Hatchko
  • 1492

    Christopher Colombus visits the Dominican Republic.

    Colombus visits the Dominican Republic and nick names it Hispaniola, or Little Spain.

  • Spain cedes its porton of Hispaniola island to france.

    France wanted more than the western part of Hispaniola, so they ask Spain to give them their eastern part.

  • Spain retakes Santo Domingo following revolt by Spanish Creoles.

    After 13 years, they retake their land, after ceding their land to France.

  • Uprising against Spanish rules is followed by brief period of independence.

    The Spaniards get a period of independence, after they had retaken Santo Domingo from the Spanish.

  • Haitian President Jean-Pierre Boyer marches his troops into Santo Domingo and annexes it.

    After the land being fully taken by one country, Jean-Pierre Boyer annexes Santo Domingo, due to it not being ruled by the Spaniards and the Spanish.
  • Dominican Republic becomes an independent country.

    Dominican Republic becomes an independent country.

    This date marks the Dominican republic independence day, celebrated annually during carnival.

  • Boyer overthrown; Santo Domingo declares its independence and becomes the Dominican Republic.

    Santo Domingo doesn't want to be part of an annex anymore, and claims itself as it's own country

  • President Pedro Santana returns the Dominican Republic to Spanish rule.

    President Pedro Santana reunites the country to the spanish.

  • The second Dominican Republic proclaimed.

    After 1863-1864; the event where Spain withdrew from the annexation of the Dominican Republic, The Dominican Republic was proclaimed by another country for the second time.
  • Dominican Republic's first president.

    Dominican Republic's first president.

    Danilo Medina Sanchez was the Dominican Republic's first president.