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1842-05-07

Earthquake razes the Cap and kills the poet Milscent

Haitian

On 7 May 1842 an earthquake that overthrew the town of the Cap from top to bottom; more than half of the population was buried under the debris. The Haitian poet Milscent perished that day.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Cap-haïtien (le).

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 182 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 182