1792. Triumph of the freedmen over the white settlers.
The freedmen of Cape Town who had entrenched themselves in Upper Cape after a fight
delivered to them the little whites of the city, returned to Cape Town with the help of slaves
Blacks became insurgents. Sonthonax and Rochambeau came to meet them.
1803. The last French contingents left Santo Domingo.
Haiti’s independence is achieved. 201 years later, in March 2004, French soldiers
once again set foot on the soil of Haiti under the title of "international forces"
temporary workers".
1945. André Bréton arrives in Port-au-Prince.
French poet and founder of the surrealist movement, he arrives in the capital, invited
by the French Institute of Haiti to give a series of lectures on his
movement, but a revolutionary atmosphere reigns there.
"His lectures inflame the youth" which is at the forefront of this
revolutionary and in the front rows of his audiences. 'Without wanting to, he participates
to the events that will lead to the fall of Lescot." (Paul Laraque. André
Bréton en Haiti Nouvelle Optique de Montréal, May 1971. )
1956. The protest movement against the government of Paul Eugène
Magloire reaches a point of no return.
Initiated in the month of May 1956, considered by many as the month of the end of the
As president of the general-president, this movement of protests plunged the country
in a spiral of violence. It escalated today, with explosions including the one
from the Bolosse water reservoir, gunfights everywhere. The ensuing strike
led the president to tender his resignation.