Practice question · Numerical answer
In which year did Haiti declare its independence?
Hints
- It is the same year as the French Civil Code.
- Eighteen hundred and four.
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1804
Why
1804: the same year Napoleon promulgated the Civil Code and crowned himself emperor. The coincidence is a useful one to hold: the year the revolution’s legal settlement was codified in Europe is the year its most radical consequence declared itself in the Caribbean, and only one of the two got into the textbooks.
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