Countries Haiti Port Au Prince | History by KabAstro

Events in Port-au-Prince History

2010-01-12 Earthquake devastates Haiti, killing approximately 160,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince

2019-02-17 Protests continue by thousands in streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, against government corruption and inflation
2019-09-23 Haitian Senator Jean-Marie Ralph Féthière opens fire hitting a journalist leaving parliament in Port-au-Prince
2020-02-13 Fire in US-run orphanage kills 15 children near Port-au-Prince, Haiti
2021-02-25 More than 200 prisoners escape and 25 people are killed at Croix-des-Bouquets prison near Port-au-Prince, Haiti
2022-07-25 UN says 209 people killed in gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, including no-gang members over 10 days, with a further 254 injured with gunshot wounds [1]

1907-04-14 Dictator and President of Haiti (1957-71), born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

1907-06-04 Jacques Roumain, Haitian writer (Gouverneurs de la Rosée), born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (d. 1944)

1943-01-17 President of Haiti (1996-2001, 2006-2011), born in Port-au-Prince

1951-07-03 Haitian dictator and deposed Haitian president-for-life (1971-86) infamous for his brutality, born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

1957-09-06 Michaëlle Jean, 27th Governor-General of Canada, born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
1967-10-20 Luck Mervil, Haitian-Québécois actor and singer-songwriter, born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
1969-01-19 Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American author, born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti