Haiti & Emergence of the Americas in global affairs

By CatherineHistory

  • The National Bank of Haiti is founded by President Salomon

  • President Salomon is overthrown; the Constituent Assembly elects Francois Denys Legitime to the presidency.

  • President Legitime is overthrown; the Constituent Assembly elects Florvil Hyppolite to a seven-year term as president

  • President Hyppolite dies of a heart attack; Tiresias Simon Sam is elected to a seven-year term as president

  • President Simon Sam resigns; Pierre Nord Alexis becomes president

  • Haiti celebrates 100 years of independence

  • Pierre Nord Alexis withdraws from the presidency; the Constituent Assembly appoints Francois C. Antoine Simon president

  • President Antoine Simon cedes the presidency to Cincinnatus Leconte

  • The Haitian American Sugar Company is founded

  • President Leconte is killed; the Constituent Assembly appoints Tancrede Auguste president

  • President Auguste dies; Senator Michel Oreste is elected president by the Constituent Assembly

  • President Oreste is overthrown and succeeded by Oreste Zamor

  • President Zamor is overthrown and succeeded by Joseph Davilmar Theodore

  • President Theodore is forced to resign, and is succeeded by Vilbrun Guillaume Sam

  • President Sam is killed; Senator Phillippe Sudre Dartiguenave is elected by the Constituent Assembly to a seven-year term as president

  • 3000 United States Marines enter Port-au-Prince, beginning the 19-year United States occupation of Haiti

  • Pierre Sully is killed

  • Gendarmerie d'Haiti is formed

  • Haitian-American Convention

  • Battle of Fort Riviere

  • The Treaty of 1915

  • Haitian constitutional referendum, 1918

  • Charlemagne Peralte is assassinated

  • President Dartiguenave's term ends; Louis Borno is elected by the State Council to a four-year term as president