canadian history

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
10/05/1497	cabot 'finds' newfoundland
10/05/1534	cartier 'finds' canada
07/03/1608	Samuel de Champlain founded Qubec city
10/05/1642	maisonneuve founds montreal	he is a wandering soul.lost but soon he finds some uber nice indians who help him so he founds it as montreal. and so the name stayed and they all blew up.
05/02/1670	hudson bay founded	hudson bay was founded to create a fur trade economy and it turned out that HBC became the monopoly over all fur trade in canada. the HBC currebtly makes an annual revenue of 7 billion dollars. they have 70000 employees and their other divisions are the Bay, Zellers, Fields and home outfitters.
04/11/1713	treaty of Utrecht
07/26/1758	battle of louisbourg
09/13/1759	fall of Qubec
02/10/1763	paris traety	The Paris Treaty was signed to end the Seven Years war. the war was between Britian and France. the final battle techniqualy after the war and was called the battle of Louisbourg. britian gained much land and france lost alot.
06/22/1774	Qubec Act
10/05/1779	northwest company founded
07/01/1791	constitution
07/01/1791	constituional act of 1791
10/05/1811	red river settlement
10/05/1815	end of the war of 1812
10/05/1841	Union Act
10/05/1848	Responsibe Government Created
09/09/1864	Charlottetown Conference
07/15/1870	Manitoba joins canada
05/12/1885	northwest rebellion
11/16/1885	Louis Riel is exicuted
06/28/1914	assassination of franz ferdinand
11/08/1916	battle of the Somme
05/25/1918	battle of Ypress 2
11/11/1918	Armistice day
06/28/1919	treaty of versailles
09/03/1939	start of world war 2
06/06/1944	D-Day	it was the invasion of normandy by landing ships. 240000 soldiers landed on the beach and the seige commenced. the defending positions were well protected by cliffs. there were british, canadians ,and french involved in this attack.
04/30/1945	hitlers suicide	Hitler killed himself by shooting himself in the head and also by taking a cianide pill. either way he made sure he was to die. he also made his wife kill herself. their bodies were cremated and then scattered by some military officials of the NAZI party.
05/08/1945	Victory in Europe Day