1804

Events

• January - Under orders from Jean-Jacques Dessalines, following the Haitian Revolution which ended in independence, soldiers which are mostly former slaves initiate the 1804 Haiti massacre against the remaining native white population of French people and French Creoles.
• April 22 - The 1804 Haiti massacre ends with 3,000-5,000 killed, effectively resulting in the total eradication of the white Haitians.
• May 3 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: at Risdon Cove, a detachment of British soldiers massacre a hunting party that was near their outpost, fearing that they were about to attack their outpost. The soldiers claimed that the natives had attacked them first, but an eyewitness stated that the soldiers fired first during an interview 26 years later.
• September 22 - Jean-Jacques Dessalines is proclaimed Emperor of Haiti by the Generals of the Haitian Revolution Army.
• October - Andrew Jackson publishes an advertisement in the Tennessee Gazette, offering a $50 dollar reward for the capture of one of his escaped slaves, also stating in the advertisement that the reward would increase "ten dollars extra, for every hundred lashes any person will give him, to the amount of three hundred.”
• October 6 - Jean-Jacques Dessalines' coronation as Emperor Jacques I takes place in the city of Le Cap.
• December 2 - At the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, becoming the first Frenchman in a thousand years to hold the title of Emperor.