📅 1820. Henri Christophe apoplexy:
During a religious ceremony in the parish church of Limonade, King Henry I fell
victim of an apoplexy attack that paralyzed an entire part of his body.
📅 1820. Fire in Port-au-Prince:
The fire that broke out at noon in the oratory of a lady who was celebrating the feast of the Assumption, and who
living at the corner of Grand Rue and Bonne Foi Street, was not slow to spread, helped by a
West wind. "Half of the Bonne Foi and Des Miracles streets [were] devastated. Nearly 300 houses
[disappeared] in the families.”
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i Source: Corvington, Georges. Port-au-Prince over the years. Part 3: The Haitian metropolis of
19th century, 1804-1888. Port-au-Prince: Port-au-Prince: H. Deschamps, 1975; p.
📅 1911. General Cincinnatus Leconte became president of Haiti thanks to a vote in the Assembly
National:
Leading the largest of the two factions that triggered the insurrection, which was to lead to
departure of President Antoine Simon (December 17, 1908 – August 2, 1911), General Cincinnatus
Leconte, who had received a triumphal welcome in Port-au-Prince ten days earlier, won it on his
rival Anténor Firmin. The latter had returned from exile and hoped to seek the reins of power.
executive.
≡🔗 See also: 2 August 1911
📅 1913. Inauguration of the Dessalines barracks:
Started under Cicinnatus Leconte, this building, at its inauguration, became the most imposing
of the country. "The main building is 121 meters long and the wing 70 meters."
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i Source: Georges Corvington. Port-au-Prince over the years. Volume 4: The Haitian metropolis
of the 19th century: 1888-1915. Port-au-Prince: Henri Deschamps, 1977; p. 259.
📅 1934. The last visible American units leave Haiti:
A departure that officially ended the 19-year American occupation.
≡🔗 See: 28 July 1915
📅 1969. Expulsion of ten priests of the Order of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans) and a laique:
The ten priests