1880

The Haitian Central Bank or the National Bank of Haiti is organized by President Salomon.

1882

February 5

Port-au-Prince and Haiti are dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help during a mass celebrated by the Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, Jean-Marie Guilloux, in the chapel of St. Francis of Assisi of Bel Air

1883

Oswald Durand, a noted Haitian poet, composes Choucoune, the famous poem set to music.

1884

Louis-Joseph Janvier publishes the striking L’Egalite des Races, Equality of Races, a thesis in which he vehemently defends the negro race.

  1885

Antenor Firmin publishes his monumental 650 page essay on the Equality of the Human Races, and the merit of the Negro Race: L’Egalite des Races Humaines. This document is a response to the work of the French writer, Gobineau, Essai sur l’Inegalite des Races Humaines, “Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races.”

  1888-1889

President Salomon is overthrown. The Constituent Assembly installs a provisional government and later elects Francois Denys Legitime to the presidency.  President Legitime keeps the presidential seat for eight months and is then overthrown and replaced by a provisional government.

The Constituent Assembly elects Florvil Hyppolite President of Haiti for seven years.

  1893

Hannibal Price publishes De la Rehabilitation de la Race Noire par la Republique d’Haiti, “On the Rehabilitation of the Black Race by the Republic of Haiti.” This is a work in defense of the black race and a response to Spencer Saint-John, the English diplomat who in 1884 published the offensive book on Haiti,”Hayti or the Black Republic.”

  1896

President Florvil Hyppolite dies of a heart attack during an expedition.  General Tiresias Antoine Simon Sam is elected President for seven years.

  1902

President Tiresias Antoine Simon Sam resigns and succeeded by Nord Alexis as President of Haiti.

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