The BBC News prepared the timeline below (February 11, 2019). Its use in this writing is to lend insight into the brief assessment which follows the chronology. (*Italics used are the writer’s for emphasis).

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A chronology of key events: 1492 ​- Christopher Columbus lands and names the island Hispaniola, or Little Spain. 1496 ​- Spain establishes first European settlement in western hemisphere at Santo Domingo, now capital of Dominican Republic. 1697 ​- Spain cedes western part of Hispaniola to France, and this becomes Haiti.

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