📅 1811. General Jérôme Maximilien Borgella elected president of the Departmental Council of the South:
General André Rigaud died, "intrigues began for the election of his successor"
(Madiou, Thomas. History of Haiti. Volume V: 1811-1818. Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie Henri
Deschamps, 1988; p. 32). 16 members of the Southern Departmental Assembly met in the
House of the deceased general to elect this successor. General Borgella received 12 votes.
📅 1868: General Michel Domingue founded the Northern State:
With its capital, Les Cayes, this state includes the entire South Peninsula. Less scattered than
the one created by Nissage in the North, it is much better organized with a cabinet and an organ
official "The Voice of the People".
In the firm, we find the following personalities:
. Septimus Rameau: finance and trade
Linstant Pradines: Justice, religion, and public education
. Pierre Momplaisir Pierre: The war
. David Fils-Aimé: Interior and agriculture.
📅 1977. Haiti’s accession to the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights:
Adopted at the Inter-American Specialized Conference on Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica, on 22 November 1969, it did not enter into force until 18 July 1978. Haiti ratified it
more than 21 years later. Here is the text of the hemispheric organization confirming this
ratification:
The President of Haiti [Jean-Claude Duvalier], by the instrument dated September 14, 1977, has
ratified, in accordance with Article 93 of the National Constitution of that State, the American Convention
human rights law, promising to respect it without any violation.”