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.
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- 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)
- Toussaint Louverture issues Haitian constitution (1801)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
Around 1791
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- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)