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1804-Oct.-08

1804-Oct.-08: Dessalines is crowned Emperor Jacques I.

1804-Oct.-08: Dessalines is crowned Emperor Jacques I. His coronation reflected the new state’s desire for international prestige and internal military order. Significance: Demonstrates continuity between revolutionary military organization and post-independence labor control.

Source Girard, Haiti: The Tumultuous History, 52; Ghachem, The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution, 292; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 34