📅 1793. The French colonists of Grande Anse signed a treaty of intervention with England:
The settlers who no longer trusted the authorities of the metropolis and who opposed each other
fiercely the rights granted to mulattos demanded England’s protection then in
war with France.
≡🔗 See: 4 April 1792; 17 September 1792; 19 June 1793; 19 September 1793.
📅 1859. Assassination attempt against President Fabre Geffrard
On the evening of that day, instigators visited the neighborhood of the house of Mrs. Blanfort, daughter of the
President Geffrard, to attest to the days of the Head of State, when he would come, as usual, to
his daughter. One of them had the idea of killing his daughter to attract the father who was delayed: through the blind, he
unloaded sontrabouc and boya the head of Mrs. Blanfort. The conspirators, frightened by this blow, took
immediately the escape. The repression did not take long and was very severe.
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i Source: Cabon. P.A. Notes on the religious history of Haiti; p.
📅 1918. Charlemagne Péralte’s escape from the prison of Cap-Haïtien:
While the news of his escape spread, Charlemagne took refuge at Street 4 in his
Comrade Gabriel Semonville... who provided him with women’s clothes with which he
disguised to [leave the city]
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Dupuy, Charles. "Who killed Charlemagne Péralte" Haiti-Observateur. 4-11 August 1999, pp. 5.
📅 1959. Death of Sténio Vincent:
President of Haiti from 1930 to 1941, Sténio Vincent, a member of the minority elite of Haiti, was before
his accession to the presidency a journalist, a writer, a diplomat, and mayor of Port-au-Prince.
Elected for six years, he managed to remain in power for nearly 11 years. The end of the occupation
American and the massacre of thousands of Haitians in the Dominican Republic took place under his
government.
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See also: Profile of Sténio Vincent