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1807-02-17

The State of the North was proclaimed and Christophe elected president for life

Haitian

On 17 February 1807, proclamation of the State of the North: Christophe is elected president for life. He has himself named king under the name of Henri I. On 8 October 1820, on the fall of Christophe, the kingdom of the North reunited with the rest of the Republic. The department of the Artibonite formed part of the kingdom of the North.

Rouzier tells this under the entry NORD [le].

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 321 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 321