Timeline April 1804

Events in April 1804 2

• 1732 – 1804 Jacques Necker (1732-1804) Died 9 April 1804, aged 71 Jacques Necker was a Geneva-born banker who served as finance minister to Louis XVI, and whose dismissal in July 1789 helped trigger the storming of the Bastille. He spent his final years in retirement at Coppet, Switzerland.
• 1804 Massacre of French Colonists in Haiti Dessalines orders the killing of remaining French residents Between February and April 1804, forces under Jean-Jacques Dessalines killed most of the remaining white French colonists in newly independent Haiti, in reprisal for decades of slavery and colonial violence. Estimates of the dead range into the thousands.