Haitian Revolution

  • Martinique attempted slave uprising

  • Vincent Ogé executed

  • Racial reforms forced on Saint-Domingue

  • Citizenship granted to free blacks

  • Major Plantation uprisings begin

  • Citizenship again decreed to free blacks

  • selective Emancipation decree in the West

  • Sonthonax General Emancipation in the North

  • French National Convention ratifies emancipation of slaves

  • Toussaint named deputy governor of Saint-Domingue

  • Toussaint appointed commander-in-chief of Saint-Domingue

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    War between Toussaint and Rigaud

  • Toussaint captures Santo Domingo

  • Toussaint appoints himself governor for life

  • General Charles Leclerc sent to Saint-Domingue

  • Toussaint surrenders

  • Haitians rise against Leclerc

  • French evacuate Haiti

  • Haitian Republic declared