📅 1792. Martyrdom of the Blessed Jacques Jules Bonnaud and his companions:
They were sacrificed during the massacres of September 1792 in Paris. He was the first blessed born.
on the soil of Haiti, in Cap-Français in 1741.
📅 1804. Dessalines proclaimed emperor by the general staff and the fourth half-brigade:
According to Madiou, the reasons for such a proclamation are that "the title of governor
general awarded to the citizen Jean-Jacques Dessalines does not fulfill the general wish, since it
assumes a secondary power dependent on a foreign authority.... (History of Haiti book 37, p