# Jean-Baptiste de Taste de Lilancour - Acting Governor-General (first time)

URL: https://allhistories.com/haiti/rulers/lilancour-1
Governorship: 28 December 1776 – 22 May 1777
Number in the list: 44
Dynasty: French colonial administration
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colonial_governors_of_Saint-Domingue

Jean-Baptiste de Taste de Lilancour acted as governor-general of Saint-Domingue three times between 1776 and 1782, the first after the death of d'Ennery. By this period Saint-Domingue was the most profitable colony in the Caribbean, producing a large share of the world's sugar and coffee with the labour of hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.

## Succession
- Previous in list: [Victor-Thérèse Charpentier, comte d'Ennery](https://allhistories.com/haiti/rulers/victor-therese-charpentier-comte-d-ennery)
- Next in list: [Robert, comte d'Argout](https://allhistories.com/haiti/rulers/robert-comte-d-argout)

## Timeline events during this reign
- 1777 - [Treaty of Aranjuez Fixes the Border](https://allhistories.com/haiti/timeline/1777-treaty-of-aranjuez-fixes-the-border)