| 6 December 1492 | Christopher Columbus arrived on the island of Hispaniola and made it a Spanish colony and founded the settlement Navidad. | |
| 1493 | Columbus established a second settlement, Isabela. | |
| 1548 | The Taino Indians population, estimated at 1 million in 1492, had been reduced to approximately 500 | |
| 1586 | Sir Francis Drake of England led one of the most famous forays against the port of Santo Domingo. | |
| 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. | |
| 1795 | Treaty of Basel. The accord directed Spain to cede its holdings on Hispaniola to France | |
| 5 May 1802 | Toussaint surrendered to Leclerc. | |
| 1 January 1804 | Haiti proclaimed its independence. | |
| 26 October 1820 | General Jean-Pierre Boyer claimed it on October 26 at Cap Haïtien at the head of 20,000 troops. Haiti was once again a single nation. | |
| 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. | |
| August 1849 | Faustin Soulouque proclaimed himself as Haiti’s second emperor, Faustin I | |
| 1915 | The first U.S. Marines landed in Port-au-Prince on July 28. For the next nineteen years, Haiti’s powerful neighbor to the north guided and governed the country. | |
| August 1934 | The last contingent of U.S. marines departed in mid-August. | |
| March 1947 | Estimé renamed the Garde the Haitian Army (Armée d’Haïti). | |
| 6 December 1950 | Paul Magloire won the election and assumed office. | |
| 1957 | François Duvalier ("Papa Doc") became president ruling the country as dictator. | |
| 1971 | At the time of his death in 1971, François Duvalier designated his son, Jean-Claude Duvalier ("Baby Doc"), as Haiti’s new leader. | |
| 7 February 1986 | Jean-Claude and Michèle Duvalier departed from Haiti to France. Lieutenant General Henri Namphy came to power in Haiti. | |
| December 1990 | Under the supervision of the United Nations the radical priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide became president. | |
| 30 September 1991 | Brigadier-General Raoul Cedras seized power in a military coup. | |
| 19 September 1994 | U.S. Army units, with U.N. support, land in Haiti to restore democracy and reinstall Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president. | |
| January 1996 | René Préva became next president. | |
| December 1998 | Last of the U.N. sponsored MIPONUH troops leave Haiti. | |
| March 2002 | Yvon Neptune became president. |
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