Toussaint Louverture issues Haitian constitution
1801 · Event
Former slave proclaims himself governor-for-life; soon abducted by Napoleon's forces.
On these timelines: Latin America, Master, France
More from Latin America
- Spanish Conquest of the Americas (1519)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521)
- Columbian Exchange (1492)
- Haitian Revolution begins (1791)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- Pizarro executes Atahualpa (1533)
Around 1801
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Abolition of British slave trade (1807)
- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)
- Cession of Louisiana to the US (1803)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 (1808)
- Romanticism (movement) (1798)