Dessalines Day in Haiti is on the 17th of October.
This day is remembered to mark the anniversary of the death of Jean Jacques Dessalines, the revolutionary who was declared an emperor in 1805. Haiti’s founding father Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haiti’s independence on this day in Gonaives, Haiti. It was a monumental achievement that marked the first successful slave revolution in world history and in the establishment of the independent Republic of Haiti.
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