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1664-00-00

1664-00-00: (France Claims the West of the Island, Asserting Sovereignty Over Territory That Would Become the Colony of Saint-Domingue): In 1664, France form…

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1664-00-00: (France Claims the West of the Island, Asserting Sovereignty Over Territory That Would Become the Colony of Saint-Domingue): In 1664, France formally claimed the west of the island, asserting sovereign authority over a territory that French settlers and buccaneers had been occupying for decades. This claim, which Spain would not formally recognize for another thirty-three years, set the stage for the transformation of the region into Saint-Domingue, the plantation colony that would become the wealthiest piece of real estate in the eighteenth-century world, built entirely on enslaved African labor.