1906.- Marriage of Louis Borno and Hélène Saint-Macary:
The latter was the third wife of Borno who became president of Haiti on the 15th
May 1922. From this marriage were born Madeleine, Henri and Simone.
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See also: Haitian heads of state: Louis Borno
1929.- Beginning of the strike by students at the Damien School of Agriculture:
"Damien’s students, "hit in their pocket" as much as in their
pride and "their self-esteem" are furious" (Leconte, Frantz-Antoine. Jacques
Romanian and Haiti: the mission of the poet in the city. Paris: Harmattan, 2011; p.
The strike took a political turn when students from other institutions
his country began to show solidarity with student farmers.
This first strike of Haitian students and the Marchaterre massacre of the 6th
The following December led the occupiers to create a commission called Commission
Forbes to assess the situation on site and propose possible solutions.
1941.- Decree-law creating the Bureau of Ethnology of the Republic of Haiti:
Designed as an institution for research, extension and safeguarding of
heritage to work in the fields of ethnography and archaeology.
There are five tasks assigned to him:
Inventory, classify and preserve ethnographic pieces and
archeological;
Methodical investigation and protection of archaeological sites;
Establishment of a museum where the objects from
directly from the "rejection campaign";
Development of ethnology teaching;
Publication of a bulletin containing the results of research by
Bureau and the work of Haitian and foreign ethnologists