Independence of Haiti
Former slaves found a nation of their own
On 1 January 1804 Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared the former French colony of Saint-Domingue independent. Haiti became the first state born of a successful slave revolt and the second independent nation in the Americas.
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1804: Napoleon crowned himself emperor, while the former slaves of Haiti, having beaten his army, declared independence — the first nation founded by a slave revolt.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1789 Storming of the Bastille — 15 years earlier
- 1796 Jenner's first vaccination — 8 years earlier
- 1804 Coronation of Napoleon — same year
- 1804–1813 First Serbian Uprising — same year
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — 10 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1783 Russian annexation of Crimea (1783) — 21 years earlier
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — 8 years later
Middle East
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — 24 years later
Africa
- 1798 Battle of the Pyramids — 6 years earlier
- 1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — same year
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — 1 year later
Asia
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — 11 years later
- 1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — 13 years later
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — 15 years later
Oceania
- 1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia — 16 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (aged 55)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (aged 35)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (aged 34)
- Simón Bolívar (aged 21)
- Alexander Pushkin (aged 5)
- Immanuel Kant (aged 80)
- James Watt (aged 68)
- George III (aged 66)
- Thomas Jefferson (aged 61)
- Mikhail Kutuzov (aged 59)