{"id":499595,"date":"2026-02-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/?p=499595"},"modified":"2026-02-07T16:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:39:12","slug":"february-8-1822-beginning-of-the-haitian-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/style\/anniversaries\/february-8-1822-beginning-of-the-haitian-occupation\/","title":{"rendered":"February 8, 1822: Beginning of the Haitian Occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Santo Domingo.<\/strong> \u2014 On this date, an event of relevance in the history of the Dominican Republic is commemorated: the <strong>beginning of the Haitian occupation of the eastern part of the island in 1822<\/strong>, led by Haitian President <strong>Jean-Pierre Boyer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\nOn February 8, Haitian troops entered the territory of the then Spanish Haiti, marking the beginning of a period of \"22 years of foreign rule\", which lasted until the proclamation of National Independence on February 27, 1844.\n\nDuring the occupation, significant changes occurred in the political, social, and economic spheres, such as the abolition of slavery and the imposition of new laws and administrative structures, events that profoundly influenced the identity and historical process of the Dominican people.\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Recommended reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/estilo\/efemerides\/integridad-femenina\/\">The urgency of the broken silence: February 6th and the fight for female integrity<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nRemembering this anniversary invites reflection on the struggle for sovereignty, self-determination, and the patriotic values that would later give rise to the Dominican Republic as a free and independent nation.\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo. \u2014 On this date, an event of relevance in the history of the Dominican Republic is commemorated: the beginning of the Haitian occupation of the eastern part of the island in 1822, led by Haitian President Jean-Pierre Boyer. On February 8, Haitian troops entered the territory of the then Spanish Haiti, marking the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40918],"tags":[43281],"class_list":{"0":"post-499595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-anniversaries","7":"tag-jean-pierre-boyer"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Anniversaries"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499596,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499595\/revisions\/499596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}