1881 · Haitianyear only

A former British consul publishes the cannibalism story and it never dies

He named religion as the single cause of what he called Haitian regression.

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1881 · Haitianyear only

Joining the postal union closes the British post offices in Haiti

Salomon issues the first Haitian stamps and takes back control of the mail.

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4 September 1881 · Haitian

Haiti mounts its own fair to advertise itself to investors

Salomon opens the exhibition in Port-au-Prince with a triumphal march composed for the occasion.

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5 February 1882 · Haitian

An archbishop calls on a new Virgin to stop a smallpox epidemic

Rain follows within two days and Perpetual Help enters Haitian religion for good.

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1883 · Haitianyear only

Haitian gunners shell a British ship in the harbour at Jeremie

Kingston answered with calls to bombard the town until Haiti was annexed to the British dominions.

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1883 · Haitianyear only

Janvier argues that Protestantism would make Haitians work

A founder of Haitian nationalism proposed a church the government could control.

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February 1883 · Haitianmonth known

Salomon's naturality law opens Haitian soil to foreign companies

Every constitution since Dessalines had declared the soil inviolable.

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May 1883 · Haitianmonth known

Salomon offers Washington a protectorate and the island of Tortuga

The president wanted American troops against his Liberal opponents and had a price ready.

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1884 · Diasporayear only

Toynbee gives the industrial revolution its classic definition

Competition replacing medieval regulation was the essence, and later writers changed the test.

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1884 to 1885 · Haitianspan

Portraits of Haiti's rulers hang in a segregated display

Seventeen paintings of Haitian leaders travel to the Colored People's Exposition and on to Washington.

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1885 · Haitianyear only

Firmin answers Gobineau and leaves Vodou out of the answer

A Haitian diplomat proved black people were civilised without defending the religion most of them served.

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1885 · Haitianyear only

Firmin answers Gobineau from Paris

A Haitian wrote the reply to racial hierarchy thirty two years after the Essai.

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1885 · Haitianyear only

Trouillot records that the snake has left the clay jar

The centrepiece of the colonial cult is missing from every Haitian account after independence.

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August 1885 · Africanmonth known

Seven hundred converts in one Congo station and a mass burning of images

The pattern looked very like what Capuchin preaching had produced two centuries earlier.

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1888 · Diasporayear only

The New York Times describes the interior of Haiti

Ready at the first signal to come down on the towns and, maddened by rum, to do anything.

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1889 · Haitianyear only

Hyppolite takes power by coup and keeps it by works and executions

A regime rife with corruption stays popular because it builds things.

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1889 to 1891 · Haitianspan

Haiti's commissioner had refused to help take the Mole

Douglass was American minister while Washington pressed for a naval station.

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