Question

A. Toussaint L’Ouverture declares Haiti independent.

Answer 1

The chronological order of these events is:

1) The thirteen colonies gained independence from Great Britain in 1776. This event is also known as the Declaration of Independence of the United States.

2) Declaration of the Rights of the Man and the Citizen was written in France in 1789. This declaration is a document from the French Revolution and was drafted by the Abbé Sieyès and the Marquis de Lafayette in collaboration with Thomas Jefferson.

3) Toussaint L’Overture declared Haiti independent in 1801. On July 7, 1801, L’Overture promulgated the Constitution that declared Haiti’s autonomy from France.

4) Simon Bolívar freed Colombia from Spanish rule in 1819. Bolívar carried out a fast military campaign to expel permanently the Spanish forces and formed The Republic of Colombia.