RECORDDessalines crowned Emperor Jacques I, 1804; the Holy Roman Empire dissolved Aug 6, 1806 (Francis II abdicated under Napoleon's pressure); Dessalines killed Oct 17, 1806 at Pont-Larnage (Pont-Rouge) by officers of his own army; Voltaire's line ("neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire") is from his Essai sur les mœurs (1756), a joke about the HRE's weakness. Against the "same empire" theory: the HRE leaves physical records across centuries (Charlemagne crowned 800 per the Frankish annals and Einhard; the Golden Bull of 1356 originals survive in archives)
LENSone empire killed on paper and one in the flesh in the same year, both by Napoleon's era (Pattern; theory that the HRE is a back-projected duplicate of Ayiti's empire: Open, lens reading). Shared fact underneath: both ends of 1806 trace to Napoleon's wars.