The Laptev Sea, into which the Lena River empties, helps keep the temperature of the world's northernmost regions regulated, through large blocks of ice that from from the Lena's outflow and then break off when the temperature rises at the river's mouth, drifting off to cool.
The Independence of Haiti (1804) Contenidos Adicicionales. Since the late 17th Century, the French holds the western part of Saint-Domingues Island, Hispaniola. A century later, sugar cane production makes Haiti one of the current most prosperous colonies of the Caribbean, thanks to the new independent United States.
Independence was declared on July 4, 1776. Martin Van Buren, the 8th president, was born in 1782, was the first born after 1776. However, Britain did not acknowledge American independence until they lost the Revolutionary War and signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783.