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Dessalines Day in Haiti

Dessalines Day in Haiti is held on October 17. Jean-Jacques Dessalines was born September 20, 1758 in Guinea, the date and place of his assassination was October 17, 1806 in Port-au-Prince, Republic of Haiti. Jean-Jacques Dessalines was the founder of an independent Haitian state and was Haiti's first ruler and national hero. This event in the second decade of the month October is annual. Help us Help us 
17 October - Dessalines Day in Haiti
Haiti's Declaration of Independence took place on January 1, 1804 in the Haitian port city of Gonaïves and was proclaimed by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, marking the end of thirteen years of the Haitian Revolution. The French colony of Haiti thus became the first independent nation in Latin America and only the second in the Americas after the United States.
Notably, Haiti's declaration of independence marked the culmination of the only successful slave revolution in history. Only two copies of the original printed version of the Act of Declaration exist. Both were discovered by Julia Gaffield, a graduate student at Duke University, at the National Archives of the United Kingdom in 2010 and 2011. They are currently housed at the National Archives at Kew.

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