Key events in the history of Haiti
July 7, 2021
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A man sits outside of the Little Haiti Cultural Center in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami, Wednesday, July 7, 2021, following the news that Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in an attack on his private residence.Lynne Sladky/AP
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) Dec. 6. 1492 Christopher Columbus lands on a Caribbean island that the Indigenous Tainos called Quisqueya. The Spanish enslave the Tainos and rename it Isla Espanola, shortened to Hispaniola.
1697 Spain cedes the western third of the island to France.
Jan. 1, 1804 Following a lengthy slave revolt and war of independence, the former French colony officially becomes Haiti the world s first Black-led republic and the second independent republic in the Americas after the U.S.
¿Asesinato del presidente Moïse aportará estabilidad o provocará más caos en Haití?
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