Haiti (l'Empereur Est Mort)
From Alternative History
Motto: Dieu, ma cause et mon épée | |||||
| Capital: | Port-au-Prince | ||||
| Largest city: | Saint-Domingue | ||||
| Other cities: | Saint-Jacques des Chevaliers, Saint-Pierre de Macorís, Saint-François de Macorís, Cap-Haïtien | ||||
| Language: official: | French | ||||
| Other languages: | Spanish, indigenous languages | ||||
| King: | Henry VII | ||||
| Royal house: | Léveillé | ||||
| Premier: | Alexandre Malet | ||||
| Currency: | 1 Gourde = 100 Centimes | ||||
The Kingdom of Haiti originates from a rather turbulent history. It is the only state in the world to have achieved independence through a succesful slave revolt. The leader of the revolt, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, declared himself to be the emperor of what had previously been known as Saint-Domingue and would from then on be know as Haiti, after an indigenous name for the island of Hispaniola.
His empire wouldn't be long-lasting and was soon overthrown, after which the new state was partitioned between the Republic of Haiti in the south and the State of Haiti in the North, of which the latter would become a kingdom in 1811. The kingdom was eventually conquered by southern forces in 1829. After this the Republic of Haiti experienced a relatively calm period of twenty years.
In 1826 however this relative calmness ended abruptly with a coup d'état staged by Supreme Commander of the Haitian army Jean Henri Léveillé. Léveillé managed to add the formerly Spanish eastern part of the island to the republic and replaced the corrupt ruling elite. In 1877 he decided to grant himself the title of king and since that moment Haiti has been a kingdom once again.
[edit] List of monarchs
Emperors of Haiti
- Jacques I (1804-1806)
Northern Haiti
- State of Haiti (1806 – 1811)
- Henry I (French:Henri) (1811-1823)
- Henry II (1823-1829)
Southern Haiti
- Republic of Haiti (1806-1829)
Unified Haiti
- Republic of Haiti (1829-1877)
- Henry III (1877-1918)
- Henry IV (1918-1929)
- Henry V (1929-1954)
- Henry VI (1954-1993)
- Henry VII (1993-present)
