Haitian Revolution
Former slaves win and build their own independent nation
A slave uprising in the French colony of Saint-Domingue grew into a revolution led by Toussaint Louverture. In 1804 Haiti was proclaimed, the first state founded by former slaves and the first independent nation in Latin America.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1789 Storming of the Bastille — 2 years earlier
- 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen — 2 years earlier
- 1796 Jenner's first vaccination — 5 years later
- 1804 Coronation of Napoleon — 13 years later
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — 23 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1768 Extinction of Steller's sea cow — 23 years earlier
- 1772–1795 Partitions of Poland — 19 years earlier
- 1783 Russian annexation of Crimea (1783) — 8 years earlier
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — 21 years later
Africa
- 1798 Battle of the Pyramids — 7 years later
- 1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — 13 years later
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — 14 years later
Asia
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — 24 years later
Oceania
- 1768–1771 Cook's first voyage — 23 years earlier
- 1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia — 3 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Catherine the Great (aged 62)
- George Washington (aged 59)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (aged 42)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (aged 35)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (aged 22)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (aged 21)
- Simón Bolívar (aged 8)
- Qianlong Emperor (aged 80)
- Immanuel Kant (aged 67)
- Alexander Suvorov (aged 61)