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But the beat is fire📯🥁🎻🔥

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First to overthrow colonizers!

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1804-01-01

After the Revolution

Everyone refused to trade with Haiti, and no one invaded again. Haitians lost everything from the scorched earth policy. Haiti goes into poverty. Jean Jaques Dessilines crowns himself emperor and creates a constitution.

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1803-11-28 

Proclamation of Independence signed by Dessalines, Christophe and Clerveaux

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1803-05-18 

Catherine Flon sews the first red and blue Haitian flag. This event is commemorated on Haitian Flag Day

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1803-04-07 

Toussaint dies at Fort de Joux

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1802 - 03 - 04 to 24 

The Battle of Crète-à-Pierrot one of the fiercest battles in the Haitian Revolution.

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1800-07-31

Toussaint -- aided by naval support from the U.S. and Britain -- defeats Rigaud through blockade and seizure. Rigaud escapes to Guadeloupe

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1799-10-20

War of Knives

Louverture and Rigaud have a dispute and have a one year war, Louverture wins with the help of the British

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1798-05-02 

Toussaint negotiates with Gen. Thomas Maitland for the British troop withdrawal from St. Domingue. (The troops leave by October.)

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1795-09-10

Spain signs a peace treaty with France

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1794-09-05

Louverture abandons Spain and Joins the Frenchdue to slavery being abolished in France

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1794 - early

Toussaint and the Spaniards control the entire north of the island (apart from Le Cap)

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1793-09-19

500 British troops under Whitelocke land in St. Domingue and take Jeremie. They intend to restore order, make Saint Domingue a British colony, and reinstate slavery. They will remain for five years

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1793-08-29

Commissioner Sonthonax emancipates 15,000 slaves (basically freeing the northern province of the island) who had helped to defeat General Galbaud. ALSO Toussaint uses the name L'Ouverture in an official paper for the first time

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1792-09-17 

Commissioners Roume, Saint-Léger and Mirbeck leave St. Domingue

1792-09-18 

The three new French civil commissioners -- Sonthonax, Polverel, and Ailhaud -- arrive; pledge support to the gens de couleur (free blacks) after the colonial whites refused to honor their enfranchisement

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Toussaint Louverture