Timeline: Haitian Revolution | Timetoast

Dec 28, 1789

First Revolt

led by the whites and the mulattos
Dec 28, 1790

Night of Fire

Well organized slave revolt
Dec 28, 1791

National assembly declares full freedom rights for mulattos

National assembly declares
Dec 28, 1792

Cominsionner Sonthanox grants freedom to slaves in the north Province who fought for the French Republic, then orders general aboliton
Dec 28, 1793

National Assembly sanctioned Sonthonax' aboliton law and extended freddom to slaves in all its colonies in the Emancipation Decree of 1794
Dec 28, 1793

Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves alliances with British and Spanish to help drive France out the island
Dec 28, 1799

Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power
Dec 28, 1801

Napoleon dispatches General Leclerc to subdue Haiti
May 28, 1802

Re-establishment of slavery, Bonaparte named Consul for life
Nov 28, 1802

Death of LeClerc
Aug 29, 1803

General Dessalines proclaims independence of Haiti
Dec 28, 1803

Signature of treaty of purchase; Lousiana Purchase
Dec 28, 1804

Implementation of Civil Code, declaration of empire
Dec 28, 1807

Removal of the Braganza royal family to Brazil