09/13/1863
A 6000-man rebel army captures the city of Santiago in Spanish-ruled Santo Domingo US/the World
03/06/1865
A massive evening fire in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince destroys much of the business district Crime/Disasters
05/09/1866
British colonel implicated in the Jamaican massacres of October 1865 commits suicide Personal
04/08/1860
Earthquake strikes Haiti west of Port Au Prince Crime/Disasters
08/16/1863
Exiles from Haiti make a daring attack on Spanish-ruled Santo Domingo opening the two-year War of Restoration US/the World
01/02/1861
Fifty-six free blacks sail from the United States for a new life as emigrants to Haiti Settlers/Immigrants
01/23/1859
Nicholas Fabre Geffrard is sworn in a President of Haiti Foreign
09/14/1863
Rebels in Spanish-ruled Santo Domingo make a new declaration of independence US/the World
01/15/1860
Scores of free blacks sail from New Orleans to begin a new life in Haiti Slavery/Abolition
05/18/1863
U.S. Navy sailing vessel strikes a reef off Haiti and is lost though all the crew survive Crime/Disasters
