TIMELINE.
- 1770→ Earthquake
- 1842→ Earthquake destroys Cap Haitien and other cities
- 1935→ Unnamed storm kills 2000+ people
- 1946→ Largest recorded earthquake in the modern era, 8.1 magnitude, cause a tsunami, killed 1,790 people, centered in Dominican Republic
- 1954→ Hurricane Hazel kills 100+ people, destroys towns and 40% of coffee tree crop and 50% of cacao crop
- 1963 → Hurricane Flora kills 8000+ people and is classified the sixth most deadly hurricane
- 1994→ Hurricane Gordon kills 1000+ people
- 1998→ Hurricane George kills more than 400 people, 80% of crops destroyed
- 2004→ Tropical storm Jeanne hits in September, about 3,000 people are killed, 200,000 people left homeless
- May 2004 → Three days of heavy rain cause mudslides, kills 2,600 people
- October 2007→ Tropical storm Noel kills 57 Haitians
- 2008 →4 hurricanes struck in the time frame of about 4 weeks in Gonaives (Hurricanes Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike) → led to deforestation, death of 800 people, about 1,000,000 are left homeless, and 60% of crops destroyed
- January 12, 2012→earthquake, 7.0 magnitude, kills more than 200,000 people, leaves 1.5 million homeless, causes Tsunamis