01 January

Independence Day (Haiti)

A public holiday in Haiti, this is Haiti’s National Day and also celebrated as New Year’s Day. The day celebrates Haiti’s 1804 independence from the French after a 13-year-long revolution. Haiti became the first nation in the world to abolish the slave trade and slavery in one of its first acts of independence.

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