History of Haiti
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The recorded history of Haiti began in 1492, when the European captain and explorer Christopher Columbus landed on a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be know
Christopher Columbus landing on the island of Hispaniola in 1492
Engraving of Cap-Français in 1728
Citadelle Laferrière, built by Henri Christophe, is the largest fortress in the Americas.
As the unofficial leader of the revolution, Toussaint L'Ouverture is considered the father of Haiti.
The Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo was the annexation and merger of then-independent Republic of Spanish Haiti into the Republic of Haiti, which lasted twenty-two years from February 9, 1822, to
Portrait of Juan Sánchez Ramírez, painted in the early 19th century
José Nuñez de Cáceres, the first and only governor of The Republic of Spanish Haiti from 1821 to 1822
19th-century French print showing Mackau forcing Boyer to agree to pay 150 million francs to compensate French planters
Jean-Pierre Boyer, the ruler of Haiti