Polity Republic of Haiti (1806-1849)

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Jacques Dessalines, who was Emperor of Haiti, was assassinated on October 17, 1806. Two members of his administration, Alexandre Pétion and Henri Christophe, then assumed power, which led to a split in the country with Pétion leading the southern Republic of Haiti and Christophe leading the northern State of Haiti. The Republic of Haiti later conquered its northern counterpart and became again an Empire.

Establishment

  • October 1806: Jacques I was assassinated on October 17, 1806. Two members of his administration, Alexandre Pétion and Henri Christophe, then assumed power, which led to a split in the country with Pétion leading the southern Republic of Haiti and Christophe leading the northern State of Haiti.

Chronology

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1. War of Christophe´s Secession

On 26 March 1811, Henri Christophe created a kingdom in the north of Haiti and was later proclaimed Henry I, King of Haïti.

  • January 1808: Pétion became President of the "Republic of Haïti" in the south.
  • October 1820: Haiti: Ill and infirm at age fifty-three, King Henry committed suicide by shooting himself with a silver bullet rather than risk a coup and assassination. His son and heir was assassinated 10 days later. King Henry was buried within the Citadelle Laferriere.

2. Haitian Military Occupation of Santo Domingo

Was the annexation and merger of then-independent Republic of Spanish Haiti (formerly the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo) into the Republic of Haiti.

  • February 1822: Haitian occupation of the Republic of Spanish Haiti.
  • February 1844: The First Republic of the Dominican Republic began on November 6, 1844 with the proclamation of the first Constitution.

3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

  • August 1849: The then-President, former Lieutenant General and Supreme Commander of the Presidential Guards under President Riché, Faustin Soulouque, inspired by Napoleon, declared himself Emperor Faustin I on August 26, 1849 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Port-au-Prince.

Disestablishment

  • August 1849: The then-President, former Lieutenant General and Supreme Commander of the Presidential Guards under President Riché, Faustin Soulouque, inspired by Napoleon, declared himself Emperor Faustin I on August 26, 1849 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Port-au-Prince.