The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, arrived in Haiti yesterday to visit the scene of a devastating earthquake which struck on Tuesday 12th January 2010. He met President Preval and toured the scene of relief efforts.
In This Story: Haiti
Jean-Jacques Dessalines (later Emperor Jacques I), defeated Napoleon Bonaparte’s forces and declared Haiti’s sovereignty on 1 January 1804.
Haiti became the only state in history established by a successful slave revolt. Apart from Alexandre Pétion, the first President of the Republic, all of Haiti’s first leaders were former slaves.