📅 1697. First signing of the Treaty of Ryswick:
This peace treaty between France, the United Provinces, England, and Spain to end the
War of the Augsburg League. The island of Haiti, known as Hispaniola, is shared between the
France and Spain. A second signature took place on October 30 of the same year between the
France and the emperor Leopold I.
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See also: 30 October 1697
📅 1734. A fire destroyed the city of Cap-Haïtien:
On the night of that fateful day, a fire broke out in the commercial district and lasted
until the early morning of September 21, destroyed half the city, causing losses for several
millions.
The inhabitants (slaves and settlers) competed in courage to save the city, without help.
sailors from the ship "La Charente" commanded by Captain de Vaudreuil and who were
anchor in the harbor.
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i Source: Dessalles, Adrien and Dessales, Pierre Régis Régis. General history of the Antilles ...
Paris, France, Libraire-éditeur, 1847-48; p.
📅 1849. Promulgation of the Imperial Constitution (second empire):
This constitution makes President Faustin Soulouque Emperor of Haiti under the name of Faustin I
and the Republic of Haiti, the Haitian empire. It proclaimed the "hereditary imperial dignity in the
direct, natural, and legitimate descent from the Emperor, male by male, in order of
progeny", and the Emperor’s person "inviolable and sacred," which gives a certain
Constitutionality to the nobility subsequently created by Emperor Faustin I...