| 6 December 1492 | Christopher Columbus arrived on the island of Hispaniola and made it a Spanish colony. | |
| 1496 | Santo Domingo was founded. | |
| 1548 | The Taino Indians population, estimated at 1 million in 1492, had been reduced to approximately 500. | |
| 1655 | English fleet tried to take Santo Domingo, but was defeated. | |
| 1697 | Under the Treaty of Ryswick, Spain ceded the western third of the island to France. | |
| 1791 | A slave revolt broke out in the French colony. | |
| 1804 | Jean-Jacques Dessalines, declared independence and established the republic of Haïti on the western third of the island in January 1804. | |
| 1809 | Spain restored power at the whole island of Hispaniola. | |
| 30 November 1821 | José Núñez de Cáceres announced the independence of the eastern part of the island as the state of Spanish Haiti. | |
| 1822 | President of Haiti, Jean-Pierre Boyer, decided to invade Santo Domingo and to reunite the island under the Haitian flag. | |
| 1843 | President Boyer was overthrow in the Revolution of 1843. | |
| 27 February 1844 | Independence of the eastern side of the island was officially declared on February 27, 1844, and the name of Dominican Republic was adopted. | |
| 1882 | General Ulysses Heureux became dictator of the Dominican Republic. | |
| 1916 | The United States sent in its Marines to occupy the Dominican Republic and they established a military government in November. | |
| 1924 | The US occupation in the Dominican Republic ends. | |
| 1930 | Raphael Leonidas Trujilo took control of the country and established dictatorship for the next 30 years. | |
| 30 May 1961 | President Tujilo was assassinated. | |
| 1965 | After a rebellion US President Lyndon Johnson ordered the US Marines to occupy the Dominican Republic unitl 1966. | |
| 1986 | Joachim Ballaguer was again elected president. | |
| 6 December 1992 | 1500-year anniversary celebration of Columbus’ discovery of America. In honor of the event, a massive concrete momument, the Faro de Colón (Columbus’ Lighthouse) was erected on the outskirts of Santo Domingo. | |
| 1996 | Leonel Fernandez Reyna was elected president. | |
| May 2000 | Hipolito Mejia became president. |
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