Boukman's Vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman
1791 · Event
Houngan priest Boukman leads a ceremony in northern Haiti where slaves swear to rise; conventional trigger for the Haitian Revolution.
On these timelines: The Haitian Revolution, Latin America, Master, Slavery & Abolition
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- Haitian Declaration of Independence (1804)
- Battle of Vertières (1803)
- Leclerc expedition to Saint-Domingue (1802)
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- Napoleon restores slavery in the French colonies (1802)
- Sonthonax abolishes slavery in Saint-Domingue (1793)
- Death of Toussaint Louverture (1803)
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- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- French Revolution (1789)