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The information about the signing of the treaty became known in Santo Domingo on 18 October 1795, at a time when the Spanish were fighting against the French forces represented by Toussaint Louverture, who was trying to take Spanish Santo Domingo. The agreement is known as the Treaty of Basel, because it was signed on 22 July 1795, in the Swiss ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
He was the first Dominican to serve as governor of Santo Domingo. In 1795, the island of Santo Domingo ceased to be linked to Spain by the Peace Treaty of Basel (Switzerland), which put an end to the War of the Convention (1793–1795), by which it passed under French rule.
Transfer of Columbus's remains from Santo Domingo (1795) By the cession of the island to France, signed on July 22, 1795, Spain ceded to the French Republic the part it still owned of the island of La Española.
1501- Calle Las Damas [], first street in the New World, is constructed 1502- Santo Domingo becomes the home of all the future conquistadors (Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Alonso de Ojeda, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Juan Ponce de León, Rodrigo de Bastidas, Pedro de Alvarado, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, among others)
Of all the dioceses in the north and south of the American continent, only the archbishop of Santo Domingo corresponds to the title of first of the Indies. It is the oldest of the surviving dioceses in the Americas, the Diocese of Santo Domingo was created on August 8, 1511 by Pope Julius II's bull Romanus Pontifex of August 8, 1511.