Municipality and capital of the district. of Cap-Haitien and the department of the North. Supper. 52.32 kilometers. Popular. 186,300 inhabitants. (UT, 60%). One (1) quarter. : Petite Anse, three (3) sect. com.: Bande-du-Nord, Haut-du-Cap and Petite-Anse. Hist.: On December 24, 1492, Christopher Columbus crossed the bay of Cap-Haitien and designated by Guarico the site where the city would be built. In 1670 the French buccaneers from the island of La Tortue settled in Haut-du-Cap. The city of Cap-Haitien was founded in 1711 by royal decree under the name of Cap-Français. Some important dates in the annals of Cap-Haitien. Birth of François Dominique Toussaint, nicknamed Louverture, on the Bréda estate in Haut-du-Cap on May 20, 1743.
1758: birth of Jean-Jacques Dessalines on the Cormier estate near Cape Town.
January 20, 1758: Mackandal was burned alive on the Cape's parade ground.
February 25, 1791: Vincent Ogé and Jean-Baptiste Chavannes, chiefs of claim of the freedmen, die on the place of arms of Cap-Français: 22 years of, the great revolt of the slaves bursts in the area of ​​the Cap Français.
1793: Sonthonax proclaims the emancipation of slaves
1802: in January, arrival of the Leclerc expedition in the bay of Cap: Henry Christophe, commander of Cap-Français, burned the town, June 7 deportation of Toussaint Louverture to Fort de Joux in France; November 2, death of Leclerc.
1803: November 18, bitter defeat of French troops at the Battle of Vertières and end of the French colony of Santo Domingo.
1804: proclamation of the independence of Haiti; the city takes the name of Cap-Haitien.
1811: June 2, coronation of King Christophe under the name of Henry I the city takes the name of Cap-Henry which it will keep until the death of the monarch in 1820, Cap-Haitien is the second city of the country . It was during the 18th century the best built city of the whole island and the most sumptuous of the West Indies. Even after the disasters of the last two centuries (earthquake, fires, floods), the city still retains a stamp of historicity that makes it original. It is the capital of the northern region of the Republic. By decree dated November 1, 1845 under the presidency of Louis Pierrot, it became the capital of Haiti.

Other Notable Natives:
Demesvar Delorme (1831) journalist, teacher; Oswald Durand (1840) poet: Antenor Firmin (1850) lawyer, teacher, journalist: M Jérôme Adhemar Auguste (1859), lawyer; Vergninaud Leconte (1860) theater man, Etienne Mathon (1864) lawyer, journalist, teacher Louis Tipenhauer (1867) professor, engineer Rosalvo Bobo (1874) doctor, lawyer, Justin Elie (1883), musician-composer; Luc Grimard (1886) lawyer, journalist, teacher; Louis Henry Durand (1887) poet: Juvigny Vaugues (1893) lawyer, teacher, journalist: Christian Werleigh (1895) poet, teacher: Gérard of Catalonia (1905) journalist, Mauclair Zéphirin (1914) lawyer, teacher, journalist; Amos Durosiers (1931); Léonce Thélusma (1934) lawyer, teacher, Gérard Etienne (1936) poet: Charles Poisset Romain (1940) sociologist: Claudette Werleigh, politician.

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Geographical and toponymic dictionary of the Republic of Haiti (Ernst P. Casseus)