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In the history of the Dominican Republic, the period of Era de Francia ("Era of France", "French Era" or "French Period") occurred in 1795 when France acquired the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, annexed it into Saint-Domingue and briefly came to acquire the whole island of Hispaniola by the way of the Treaty of Basel, allowing Spain to cede the eastern province as a consequence of the ...
The area that would become the Dominican Republic remained the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo until 1821, except during the Era de Francia, when it was a French colony from 1795 to 1815. It briefly became an independent state in 1821, known as the Republic of Spanish Haiti , until it was annexed and merged by Haiti into Republic of Haiti ...
After French buccaneers took over part of the west coast, settlers from France arrived and decades of armed conflict ensued. Spain finally ceded the western third of Hispaniola to France in the 1697 Peace of Ryswick, thus establishing the basis for the future nations of the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
On 22 July 1795, Spain ceded to France the remaining Spanish part of the island of Hispaniola, Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic), in the second Treaty of Basel, ending the War of the Pyrenees. The people of the eastern part of Saint-Domingue (French Santo Domingo) [7] [8] [9] were opposed to the arrangements and hostile toward the ...
Santo Domingo, on eastern Hispaniola, under French control. The war between Spain and the Convention ended with the cession of the eastern part of the island of Santo Domingo to France, in exchange for the return of the peninsular territories occupied by the French army, as stipulated in the Treaty of Basel, signed on July 22, 1795, between both countries.
First Spanish Capitancy 1492–1801 Governors and Viceroys of the Indies 1492–1500 Admiral Christopher Columbus, as Viceroy of the Indies 1496–1498 Bartolomeo Columbus, as Adelantado 1500–1502 Comendador Francisco de Bobadilla, as Governor of the Indies 1502–1509 Comendador Frey Nicolás de Ovando y Cáceres, as Governor of the Indies 1509–1518 Second Admiral Diego Columbus, as ...
Annexation of Santo Domingo or of the Dominican Republic may refer to: French annexation during the Era de Francia (1795–1815) Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo (1822–1844) Annexation of the Dominican Republic to Spain (1861–1865) Proposed annexation of Santo Domingo by the United States (1869–1871)
The Spanish-controlled section of the island was named Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic), with the French-controlled section termed Saint-Domingue (which was later renamed Haiti). The French settlers dedicated themselves to the cultivation of the sugar cane and owned plantations, which required a huge amount of manpower. They enslaved ...