User:Jeannewemail/List of historic events in Haiti


 * December 24,1492 while most of the Santa Maria's hands where asleep,an inexperienced pilot ground the ship on a shoal. A cacique named Guacanagarí, whose village was close by, helped in salvaging the wreck. Guacanagarí village was near the northern coast of the island of Hispaniola, present day Caracol Bay.
 * January 4,1493 Christopher Columbus sailed eastward after leaving thirty-eight men at a small blockhouse called Navidad.


 * August or September of 1493 La Navidad settlement burned to the ground and the Europeans were wiped out after Guacanagari had ordered an attack because the men of La Navidad went out in search of not only gold, but women as well, and had taken to mistreating the local natives.


 * 1502 Fray Bartolomé De Las Casas was around twenty-eight, he followed his father to the New World. He became a priest on Hispaniola.
 * 1512 Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdes arrived in Hispaniola after most of the taino are dead.