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Historical events

  • Bush-Mitterrand meeting at Habitation Clément
  • 1851-1914: Construction of the Panama Canal
  • February 1974: Ilmany "Rénor" Sérier, worker killed during farm workers' strikes

AZ Martinique goes even further in the information offered on the island in our website by offering historical facts that have marked or even transformed Martinique.

  • Bateau avec les Antillais au départ pour le Canal du Panama
    Toute l'année
    Martinique's heavy toll on the Panama Canal
  • Récolte de la canne
    Janvier
    January 1839: Martinique shaken!
  • Tableau d'Eugène Delacroix, 28 juillet
    Février
    February 1794: the non-abolition of slavery
  • Février 74 : manifestation des ouvriers agricoles
    Février
    February 1974
  • Aimé Césaire loi de départementalisation
    Mars
    March 1946: 70 years of departmentalization!
  • Charles de Gaulle
    Mars
    March 23-24, 1964: De Gaulle in Martinique, a popular extravaganza
  • Guerre du Golfe
    Mars
    March 14, 1991: The day America "discovered" Martinique
  • Ouvriers agricoles
    Décembre
    December 1959: Martinique under tension
  • Capture du Fort Saint-Louis en 1794, peinture de Willams Anderson
    Décembre
    December 1795: The landing at Le Vauclin

  • Martinique: A to Z

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