2020 · Datasetyear only

A database of runaway notices passes fifteen thousand entries

Marronnage in Saint-Domingue spreads beyond one colony and its published totals stop adding up.

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2020 to 2021 · Haitianspan

Three women are killed in two years and are named

Anise Boisrond, Evelyne Sincere and Antoinette Duclaire, aged twenty two, twenty two and thirty three.

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7 July 2021 · Haitian

Gunmen announcing a drug agency raid kill the president at home

Twenty-one Colombians walked through the checkpoints by shouting an American agency name.

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the 2020s · Africandecade

One late cemetery cannot tell you who founded Egypt

DNA from a northern site, sampled two millennia too late, is read as the origin of a civilisation.

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31 July 2026 · Dataset

Where this timeline comes from

1,497 files in the corpus, 4,236 archive entries, 36,108 voyages, 67,460 names.

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