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Spain codes the western third of the island (Haiti) French
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The French colony of Saint Domingue is the most lucrative colony in the world, at this time, more lucrative than the 13 Colonies. Its slave-produced tropical crops generated great wealth. Peple, mainly of western African origin, were enslaved by the French.
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By 1775 British and Americans grew tense and a gunfire was exchanged at LEington and Concord Massachussetts signaling the beginning of the American Revolution.
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General Cornwallis was surrounded and forced to surrender the British position at Yorktown, Virginia. Two years later, the Treaty of Paris made it official: America was independent.
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Marks the beginning of the French Revolution
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In Saint-Domingue the Colonial Assembly forms to combat actions the French National Assembly has taken on behalf of free blacks and mulattoes.
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In Saint-Domingue,the free men of color demand equal rights with free whites based on The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.
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Vincent Oge leads free colored rebellion in the north
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The Haitian Revolution begins when a group of slaves gather at Bois-Caïman in the northern part of the colony. Jamaican-born Dutty Boukman holds a voodoo ceremony that launches the struggle.
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Period of VIolence during the French Revolution were many executions took place through the guillotine
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Louverture misjudges, however, and instead of gaining favor abroad his audacity threatens the French and he is quickly seen as a major threat.
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Louverture signs a secret alliance treaty with England and the United States.
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Louverture exiles Rigaud to France and re-divides the areas of conflict. He grants general amnesty to every person who helped him fight Rigaud.
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Dessalines proclaims Haiti’s independence, signaling the formation of the world’s first black republic. He publishes a Declaration of Independence, signed by himself and Christophe, and the colony “Saint-Domingue” is abolished forever. The original Taino name of Hayti is officially restored.
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Dessalines is crowned Emperor Jacques I of Haiti.
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Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor of France
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Haiti was divided inyo two parts, THe Republic of Haiti and THe Kingdom of Haiti
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Date is not specified only year
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United States finally recognized Haiti as an independent country
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