1806. Circular from Henri Christophe asking the parishes to
constitute in electoral colleges:
By a circular addressed to the commanders of the six military divisions (Romain,
Toussaint-Brave, Vernet, Pétion, Gérin, Férou), Christophe who had been proclaimed the
October 21, provisional head of government, just a few days later
the assassination of Dessalines, invited military leaders to ask the parishes to
constitute electoral colleges to proceed with the appointment of members
National Assembly responsible for drafting a new constitution.
1810. André Rigaud provoked the split of the South with the Republic:
General André Rigaud, the mulatto who had provoked
the civil war of 1799-1888, returned to Haiti again
April 7, 1810. He could not accept the fact of being a
ordinary citizen or even to be the commander of a
army. In fact, in an interview with the president
Alexandre Pétion, he was invested with the command of
the army responsible for chasing Goman and stopping him at
failure to submit him. Upon his return to Cayes, he
pronounced the division of his former territory and named himself "commander-in-chief"
from the Department of the South at that time with the power to command the army, to appoint
civil servants and soldiers, to make laws, to revoke etc...
In the absence of a parliament, he created a privy council composed of his generals and
five notable citizens (Brunot-Blancher, Monbrum, Constant, Simon and Daguilh).
1987. Fire in the store of Emmanuel Ambroise:
We were in the middle of an election period. Haitians are forever divided (sector said
democratic composed mainly of parties and organizations from the Centregauche, popular organizations mostly claiming to be in the theology of the
liberation and opposing any election organized by the incumbent [CNG], the
Duvalierist camp which, the day before, had suffered a stinging defeat, the CEP having
rejected their candidates under Article 291 of the Constitution