Saint-Marc. The General Assembly of the French part of Saint-Domingue meets there and constitutes itself.

The three provincial assemblies, unable to agree properly on the high administration of the colony, resolved to entrust the general interests of the three provinces to an assembly called colonial. They accordingly convoked primary assemblies in every parish, which named 212 deputies to the general or colonial assembly. This new assembly, to be freer in its deliberations, removed itself from the seat of government, which was then at Port-au-Prince, and met at Saint-Marc on 25 March 1790. On the following 15 April it constituted itself under the presidency of Bacon de la Chevalerie and took the name of General Assembly of the French part of Saint-Domingue. It had written on the curtain of its hall of sessions: Saint-Domingue, the Law and the King, and assumed to itself the entire administration of the colony.