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Jun 24, 1497
Cabot's 'discovery' of Newfoundland
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May 10, 1534
Cartier's 'discovery' of Canada
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Champlain founds Quebec City
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Maisonneuve founds Montreal
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Hudson Bay Company founded
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Treaty of Utrecht
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Battle of Louisbourg
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Fall of Quebec
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Quebec Act
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Northwest Company Founded
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Paris Treaty
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The Constitutional Act of 1791
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Red River Settlement
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End of the War of 1812
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Union Act
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Responsible Government is created
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Charlottetown Conference
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Confederation
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Manitoba joins Canada
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Northwest Rebellion
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Louis Riel's execution
Louis Riel was a Canadian politician who is known as the founder of Manitoba. He had led two resistance movements against the Canadian government to preserve Metis rights and cultures seeming they were here originally before the French or the British. He even led the Red River Rebellion. He was in exile in Montanna where he got married and had 3 children. He was accused of Treason and hung. -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand was an archduke of Austria-Hungary and heir of the throne. Him and his wife, Sophie were shot in Sarajevo by a Serbian terrorist, Gavrilo Princip. The assassination was to begin the movement to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces to create a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia but led to the disastrous World War I. -
Battle of Ypres II
The second battle of Ypres was a deadly one for the British and Canadian soliders. The Germans had used posion gas on Western Front forcing the Canadian colonies to retreat. They had held urine soaked cloths to their mouths trying not to breath in the deadly poision and tried to push on, but in the end they had to retreat. -
Battle of the Somme
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Armistice Day
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Treaty of Versailles
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Start of World War II
World War II was a result of T.E.D - Treaty of Versailles - where Germany wanted their land back, they broke the treaty which upset the other countries. Economic Issues - Germany had printed millions of dollars to pay back war reparations for the first World War, this led to the Great Depression. Finally the rise of dictatorship with corrupt leaders such as Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. When Germany invaded Poland, Britain declared war, knowing that Germany wanted to take over Europe again.. -
D-Day
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Hitler's Suicide
Adolph Hitler had committed suicide by gunshot on April 30th 1945 in Berlin. At the same time, his wife had committed suicide by ingesting poison. Their bodies were burned in the garden outside the bunker. There was an eye-witness whom accounts that their was a gun shot in Hitler's mouth which clears up the questionable death theories. -
Victory in Europe Day
