This flag is a former version of Haiti.
First Haitian flag adoptedThis flag
Revolutionaries adopted a vertical blue-and-red bicolor after removing the white band from the French flag.
Bands changed to horizontal
The revolutionary flag’s blue and red bands were arranged horizontally.
Flag changed to black and red
The constitution changed the flag’s colors to black and red.
Blue and red restored
Pétion restored the blue and red colors after Dessalines’s death and added the republic’s coat of arms.
Horizontal flag adopted
Pétion changed the blue-and-red flag to horizontal bands; this design was later used nationally with the coat of arms.
Imperial arms substituted
The blue-and-red flag was retained, but Faustin I’s shield replaced the republic’s coat of arms.
Republican arms restored
After the empire ended, the republic’s coat of arms returned to the flag’s center.
Black-and-red flag restored
The flag returned to black and red while retaining the coat of arms, whose trophy colors were also changed.
Blue-and-red flag restored
The blue-and-red flag returned and was ratified by the 1987 Constitution.
