Then on 9 November 1821 the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo was toppled by a group led by Spanish lieutenant governor Núñez de Cáceres, the colony's former administrator,[1][2] and the rebels proclaimed independence from Spain on 30 November 1821.[3] The new nation was known as Republic of Spanish Haiti.[2] On 1 December 1821 a constitutive act was ordered to petition the union of Spanish Haiti with Simon Bolivar’s Gran Colombia.