Canadian Events History Timeline

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  • Jun 24, 1497

    Cabot's discovery of Newfoundland

  • Jan 1, 1534

    Cartier's discovery of Canada (New France)

  • Champlain founds Quebec city

  • Maisonneuve founds Montreal

  • Hudson Bay Company founded

  • Treaty of Utrecht

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    Battle of Louisbourg

  • Fall of Quebec Battle of the Plains of Abraham

  • Paris Treaty

  • Quebec Act

  • Northwest Company founded

  • Constitutional Act of 1791

  • Red River Settlement Founded

  • End of the War of 1812

    British and American merchants call for treaty negotiations. It was the defeat of Tecumseh's Indian confederacy and the end of plans for the independent indian state.

  • Union Act

  • Responsible Government created

  • Charlottetown Conference

  • Confederation

  • Manitoba joins Canada

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    Northwest Rebellion Batoche

  • Louis Riel is executed

    Louis Riel returned to what is now known as Saskatchewan to represent the unhappiness of Metis to the Canadian government. This led to a military confrontation and ended in his arrest, trial, and execution on a charge of high treason.

  • Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

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    Battle of Ypres 2

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    Battle of the Somme

  • Armistice Day

    This day was declared a national holiday in many allied nations, to commemorate those members of the armed forces who were killed during war.
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    Treaty of Versailles

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    Start of WW2

    It began with the German invasion of Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later.

  • D-Day

  • Hitler's Suicide

    Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot in April 1945 in Berlin. His wife committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide.

  • Victory in Europe Day