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1534 : Jacques Cartier explores coast of Labrador (discovery of Canada)
1535 : Jacques Cartier explores St. Lawrence River, trades with Huron Indians
1608 : Champlain founds village of Quebec
1610 : Henry Hudson discovers Hudson's Bay
1621 : Colonization is attempted in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia by British
1629 : David Kirke captures Quebec for Britain
1632 : Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye returns Quebec to France
Sunday May 18 1642 : Montreal is founded by the Sieur de Maisonneuve
1663 : Quebec becomes a royal province
1749 : Britain founds Halifax to counter French presence at Louisburg
1755 : Britain expels the Acadians from Nova Scotia
Thursday September 13 1759 : Wolfe takes Quebec, defeating Montcalm on Plains of Abraham (both Generals killed)
1774 : The Quebec Act , borders of Quebec expanded, religious rights guaranteed
1784 : United Empire Loyalists arrive in Canada
1784 : Province of New Brunswick is created
1791 : The Constitution Act, Quebec divided into Upper and Lower Canada
1812 : Fort Ontario (Oswego) captured by Drummond and Yeo
Thursday June 18 1812 : US declares war on England, day after England repealed the cause
Saturday July 11 1812 : General William Hull and troops invade Canada through Detroit
August 1812 : Start of Red River Settlement in Northwest (start)
Sunday August 16 1812 : Hull surrenders larger American army to British
October 1812 : End of Red River Settlement in Northwest (start)
Tuesday October 13 1812 : Battle of Queenston Heights - Brock dies in Canadian victory
1813 : Fort Wellington built by British at Prescott, Ontario
1813 : British Colonel Murray captures Fort Niagara
1813 : Fort Erie abandoned by British after Americans capture Fort George
April 1813 : York burned by Americans
Tuesday April 27 1813 : American General Zebulon Pike and fleet of ships attacks York,
Saturday June 5 1813 : Battle of Stoney Creek, Canadian victory
Wednesday June 23 1813 : Battle of Beaver Dams, Canadian victory
Friday September 10 1813 : Laura Secord walks 32 km to warn of American attack (Battle of Put-in-Bay)
Friday September 10 1813 : Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry "meets" British in Lake Erie
Tuesday October 5 1813 : Tecumseh defeated in Battle of Moraviantown, near Detroit, in Ontario
Tuesday October 5 1813 : Tecumseh defeated (and killed) in Battle of Moravintown, near Detroit, in Ontario
Tuesday October 26 1813 : British/Canadian troops win battle in Montreal
Thursday November 11 1813 : Battle of Chrysler's Farm, Canadians defeat Americans, Brigadiers Boyd and Brown
1814 : Fort Erie reoccupied by British garrison of 150 men
1814 : City of Washington captured and burned by British (reprisal for York)
Sunday July 3 1814 : Fort Erie captured by Americans
Tuesday July 5 1814 : Battle of Chippewa, American victory
Monday July 25 1814 : Battle of Lundy's Lane. With both sides claiming heavy
Saturday December 24 1814 : War of 1812 ends with the Treaty of Ghent
1818 : Anglo-American Convention fixes 49th parallel as border between Canada and USA
1819 : First Steamship goes up Ottawa river to Hull
1833 : Welland Canal finished to Port Colburn
1833 : Cholera epidemic in Toronto (1833-34) kills 600 people
Saturday May 11 1833 : "Lady of the Lake" sinks (England to Quebec liner) 215 lives lost
1834 : York, Ontario becomes city of Toronto
1835 : William Lyon Mackenzie first mayor of Toronto
1837 : Rush-Bagot Treaty with Canada creates world's longest open border
1837 : Unsuccessful rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada lead by Mackenzie and Papineau
1841 : Act of Union unties Upper and Lower Canada
1857 : Ottawa named Canada's capital by Queen Victoria
Thursday September 1 1864 : Charlottetown Conference - first steps towards Canadian
Confederation
1867 : British North American Act creates the Dominion of Canada
1868 : Thomas D'Arcy McGee assassinated by a Fenian (Canada's first assassination)
1869 : The Riel Rebellions take place in present day Manitoba
1870 : The Manitoba Act is passed
1871 : British Columbia joins Dominion of Canada
1873 : Prince Edward Island joins Dominion of Canada
1873 : Prime Minister (Canada) MacDonald resigns over Pacific Scandal
1875 : Supreme Court of Canada created
1876 : Invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell of Brantford, Ontario
1878 : Quebec Dock Riots
1878 : Sir Sanford Fleming, Canadian Railway Surveyor devises Standard Time
1881 : British Columbia joins Canadian Confederation
1884 : Joseph Tyrrell finds first dinosaur skull (Albertasaurus)
1884 : Louis Riel returns to Canada
Monday November 16 1885 : Louis Riel is Executed in Regina
1891 : Canadian creator of Insulin Frederick Banting born
Monday October 30 1899 : Canadian troops sent to Boer war
1901 : Marconi receives first transatlantic radio message at St. John's , Newfoundland
1903 : Montreal Dock Riots
1904 : Great Fire of Toronto Ontario Canada
1905 : Alberta joins Dominion of Canada
Friday May 29 1914 : CP ship "Empress of Ireland" sinks in St. Lawrence, 1014 die
Tuesday August 4 1914 : Canada automatically at war with Germany when England declares war
Thursday April 22 1915 : Canadians face German gas attack at Ypres, John McCrae writes "In Flanders Fields"
1916 : Canadian Parliament Buildings (Ottawa) destroyed by fire
1917 : Conscription in Canada
Monday April 9 1917 : Start of Canadian troops capture Vimy Ridge
Thursday April 12 1917 : End of Canadian troops capture Vimy Ridge
Thursday December 6 1917 : French Munitions Ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax
Harbour, 1600 killed
Thursday August 8 1918 : Canadians break through German trenches at Amiens "Canada's Hundred Days"
Saturday January 10 1920 : Canada joins League of Nations at its inception
1922 : Canadian Northern Railway and Canadian Transcontinental Railway merge to form Canadian National Railway
1923 : Grand Trunk Railway taken over by Canadian Government
1925 : Women get the right to vote in Newfoundland
1934 : Bank of Canada is created
Sunday September 10 1939 : Canada declares war on Germany (waited 1 week to stress independence from Britian)
Wednesday August 19 1942 : Many Canadians captured or killed in Dieppe Raid
1945 : Canada's First Nuclear plant opens at Chalk River Ontario
Tuesday June 26 1945 : United Nations formed - Canada one of the original members
1947 : Canada joins GATT
1949 : NATO is formed, Canada one of the founding members
Thursday March 31 1949 : Newfoundland joins the Dominion of Canada
1952 : CBC broadcasts Canada's first (part time) television
1954 : First Canadian Subway opens in Toronto
Friday February 20 1959 : Avro Arrow project is terminated
Friday June 26 1959 : St. Lawrence seaway opens up
Saturday September 29 1962 : Canadian satellite "Alouette" launched
Tuesday December 11 1962 : Canada's last execution, Turpin and Lucas at Don Jail in Toronto
1963 : FLQ is founded
Tuesday November 19 1963 : Trans Canada airliner crashes in Montreal loss of 118 lives
1965 : Canada replaces Union Jack with Maple Leaf as National Flag
1966 : CBC television goes colour
1967 : Expo 67 in Montreal for Canada's 100th Birthday
1967 : Army, Navy and Air Forces of Canada are merged into Canadian Armed Forces
October 1970 : October Crisis (James Cross kidnapped) rocks Quebec
Wednesday April 2 1975 : CN Tower in Toronto opens (1821 feet tall)
Monday November 10 1975 : "Edmund Fitzgerald" breaks apart and sinks on Lake Superior, 20 die
1976 : Montreal hosts the 21 Olympic Games
Tuesday January 24 1978 : Soviet nuclear-powered satellite crashes in Canadian north
1980 : Quebec as a whole (60% - 40%) votes down proposal for sovereignty association
1980 : Patriation of the Canadian Constitution (Quebec does not sign)
Saturday April 12 1980 : Start of Terry Fox marathon of hope
Monday September 1 1980 : End of Terry Fox marathon of hope
Sunday June 28 1981 : Terry Fox dies
Monday February 15 1982 : "Ocean Ranger" oil platform sinks off coast of Newfoundland, 84 die
Wednesday June 22 1983 : "Canadarm" first used
Friday October 5 1984 : Marc Garneau - first Canadian in space
Sunday June 23 1985 : Air India crash, off Ireland (bomb suspected) 280 Canadians killed
Saturday February 13 1988 : Calgary hosts winter Olympic games
Saturday September 24 1988 : Ben Johnson wins 100 metre gold, then stripped of it for steroid use
Wednesday December 6 1989 : 14 female students killed by anti-feminist gunman in Montreal
1990 : Oka standoff, Quebec (78 days)
1990 : Canada sends warships to the Gulf war
Monday February 12 1990 : Hagersville Tire Fire, Ont , burned for 16 days, 1.5 million to extinguish
1992 : NAFTA Trade Pack (US, Canada, Mexico)
Wednesday January 22 1992 : Roberta Bondar - first Canadian woman in space
Monday October 30 1995 : Province of Quebec Referendum on Sovereignty, no side wins narrowly (50.6% - 49.4%)
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