A treaty of friendship is signed between…

A treaty of friendship is signed between the Republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic on January 20, 1875, but Haiti's domestic financial situation is devastating despite this success in international politics, .

President Michel Domingue has negotiated a loan deal with France, which will strain Haitian finances for years.

Finally, corruption and fraud are so great that Domingue issues a decree, dated May 15, 1875, for the arrest of Generals Brice and Pierre Monplaisir Pierre.

His political opponent Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal, who criticizes Domingue’s financial policy and the loan, takes refuge at the embassy of the United States.

Brice and Pierre Monplaisir Pierre are killed; Boisrond Canal and other opponents flee abroad.

Septimus Rameau, accused of being responsible for the deaths of the two generals, is himself assassinated on a street in Port-au-Prince.