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Istwa Nou

We Haitians have always known who we are and where we are going. Every generation sets out for it, and in every generation something interrupts our journey, our walk. Sometimes it comes from outside. Sometimes it comes from among us. Those interruptions are in this chronology because they happened; they're not who we are. We have never been defined by those off-road moments; and we have never internalized them.

We keep marching.

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3,523 entries in 8 eras

Every era on one screen. Nothing scrolls until you ask it to.

Ginen(the ancestral source)20,000 BCE to 1154276
20,000 BCE3
18,000 BCE1
14,000 BCE1
10,000 BCE15
9000 BCE2
8000 BCE2
7000 BCE4
6000 BCE25
5000 BCE15
4000 BCE25
3000 BCE21
2000 BCE29
1000 BCE56
0 to 99959
1000 to 119918
Ayiti1200 to 144054
1200 to 129936
1300 to 13997
1400 to 144011
Maafa(the great disaster)1441 to 1790interruption689
1441 to 149984
1500 to 1599140
1600 to 1699231
1700 to 1790234
The Great Reclamation((from saint-domingue to Haiti))1791 to 1803364
179166
179210
179342
179414
179514
17966
17979
179820
179922
180022
180144
180262
180333
Sovereignty(independence)1804 to 1914623
1800s144
1810s55
1820s60
1830s15
1840s53
1850s33
1860s46
1870s11
1880s17
1890s23
1900s85
1910s81
Sezisman(the seizure, and the shock of it)1915 to 1933interruption392
191583
191610
191713
191822
191930
192044
192119
192218
19234
19244
192518
192612
192712
192818
192918
193038
193112
193214
19333
Anba Chèf(under the boss)1934 to 1985interruption854
1930s202
1940s193
1950s170
1960s148
1970s98
1980s43
Dechoukaj(the uprooting)1986 to 2026271
1980s62
1990s116
2000s44
2010s44
2020s5
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