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Events on Saturday 1 December 1821 1
1821Dominican Republic's "Ephemeral Independence"Brief break from Spanish rule in Santo DomingoJosé Núñez de Cáceres declared the colony of Santo Domingo independent from Spain as the "State of Spanish Haiti." The new state survived barely two months before being absorbed by neighboring Haiti in early 1822.