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| 1800 |
| | | Toussaint L'Ouverture emerges as the leader of Saint-Domingue, ruling without French colonial control | |
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| 1801 |
| | | Toussaint L'Ouverture invades the neighbouring Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, and becomes ruler of of the whole island of Hispaniola | |
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| 1801 |
| | | A powerful French force arrives in Saint-Domingue and recovers control of the colony, offering generous terms to the native leaders | |
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| 1802 |
| | | Toussaint L'Ouverture is treacherously arrested and sent to France, where he dies in prison | |
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| 1804 |
| | | The independence of Haiti from France is proclaimed by a new black ruler calling himself the emperor Jacques I | |
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| 1806 |
| | | The Creole militia of Buenos Aires drive out an English force which has captured the city | |
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| 1807 |
| | | The Portuguese royal family flees to Brazil on the approach of a French army led by Jean-Andoche Junot | |
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| 1808 |
| | | The Portuguese royal family and their entourage arrive in Rio de Janeiro | |
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| 1809 |
| | | With acts of defiance in Sucre, Bolivia becomes the first American province to rebel against the Spanish authorities | |
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| 1810 |
| | | Simón Bolívar, a young officer in Caracas, takes part in a coup which wins control of Venezuela from the Spanish | |
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