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1842

1842: A powerful earthquake strikes the north, precipitating the physical ruin of the Sans Souci palace.

1842: A powerful earthquake strikes the north, precipitating the physical ruin of the Sans Souci palace. The structure was never rebuilt, leaving its walls as a permanent monument to King Henry’s era.

Source Trouillot, Silencing the Past, 46; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 64