1993-00-00: (FRAPH Established by Emmanuel Constant as a CIA-Funded Paramilitary Group to Undermine Aristide, Responsible for Over Three Thousand Deaths Including Face-Scalping With Machetes, the United States Funding the Destruction…
1492-12-05: (Christopher Columbus Arrives at Hispaniola and Claims the Island for Spain, the Moment That Begins the European Colonization of the Territory That Would Become Haiti): On December 5, 1492,…
1920-00-00: (Deforestation Begins Its Catastrophic Acceleration, Haiti's Forest Cover Declining From Sixty Percent to Less Than Two Percent Over the Course of the Twentieth Century, an Environmental Catastrophe Driven by…
1850-11-27: (Anténor Firmin Born in Cap-Haïtien, the Anthropologist Whose 1885 Treatise The Equality of the Human Races Rebutted European Scientific Racism a Generation Before the Noirisme Movement He Intellectually Fathered):…
1907-06-04: (Jacques Roumain Born in Port-au-Prince, the Marxist Writer Whose Novel Masters of the Dew Would Become the Most Celebrated Work of Haitian Literature, Translated Into English by Langston Hughes):…
1974-00-00: (Haiti Participates in the FIFA World Cup for the First and Only Time, the National Team Competing on the World Stage in a Tournament That Showcased Both the Talent…
1988-01-00: (The Khian Sea Illegally Dumps Four Thousand Tons of Toxic Ash Near Gonaïves, an American Garbage Barge Treating the Black Republic as a Dumping Ground for Philadelphia's Industrial Waste):…
1766-06-27: (Pierre Toussaint Born Into Slavery in Haiti, the House Slave Who Would Become One of the Wealthiest and Most Philanthropic Black Men in Nineteenth-Century New York, Declared Venerable by…
1912-00-00: (Félix Morisseau-Leroy Born, the First Major Literary Figure to Write Primarily in Kreyòl, Whose Kreyòl Adaptation of Antigone Proved That the Language of the Majority Could Sustain Great Art):…
1779-10-09: (The Siege of Savannah, Over Five Hundred Free Black and Mulatto Troops From Saint-Domingue Fighting in the American War of Independence, Future Haitian Revolutionaries Including Christophe and Rigaud Among…