1790. Constitution in Saint Marc of a General Assembly:
Composed of 212 members recruited mainly from Creole white planters,
this assembly, which opposes the king’s representatives in the colony, displayed
openly its separatist tendencies and even published a constitution to that effect
effect. His supporters, who wore a red cockade, went down in history as
the "Pompons rouges". Their opponents, defenders of the governor and recruited
Among the little white people, merchants and mulattos bore the name of
"White pompoms".
1907. Birth of François Duvalier:
François Duvalier, president of Haiti on October 22, 1957
on April 21, 1971, was born in Port-au-Prince, not far from the
Nord Alexis’s presidential palace. A place of birth
and of residence, which allowed him to live very closely the
sometimes bloody events marking history
of Haiti during the first decades of the twentieth century.
He did his classical studies at the Lycée Pétion where he dropped out
his high school diploma in 1928, a
a diploma that opened the doors to the School of Medicine for him
from Port-au-Prince...
2025. Séguin attack in the Southeast Department by groups
criminals:
A group of heavily armed individuals stormed, on the night of
April 13 to 14, the sub-police station of the Seguin district, located in the town
from Marigot. These bandits set fire to the building as well as to two vehicles of the
Haitian National Police (PNH). In terms of human lives, at least seven
people met their deaths during an attack of rare intensity.