đź“… 1 January 1804
Haiti declared independence after defeating French forces. It became the first independent Black republic and the only state created through a successful revolution by enslaved people. France later...
đź“… 7 April 2003
On 7 April 2003, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide publicly demanded that France return the money Haiti had been compelled to pay after independence. The demand placed the 1825 indemnity and its...
đź“… 17 April 2025
On 17 April 2025, French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged that the 1825 indemnity imposed a price on Haitian freedom and announced a mixed Franco-Haitian commission of historians. The commission...
đź“… 17 April 1825
King Charles X’s ordinance of 17 April 1825 offered diplomatic recognition of Haiti on condition that the Haitian state pay 150 million francs to compensate former colonists for property lost...
