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ratified by the Congress of the Confederation on January 14, 1784, and by the King of Great Britain on April 9, 1784 (the ratification documents were exchanged in Paris on May 12, 1784), formally ended the American Revolutionary War between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America, which had rebelled against British rule
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An Act to repeal certain Parts of an Act, passed in the fourteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for making more effectual Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, in North America; and to make further Provision for the Government of the said Province
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n the summer of 1811 Lord Selkirk sent a group of Scottish and Irish colonists to the Red River region by way of Hudson Bay, under Miles Macdonnell, the first governor of the colony; the party reached its destination in 1812.
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e act was inspired by Lord Durham's report. Lord Durham was sent to the colonies to examine the causes of the Rebellions of 1837 in both Upper and Lower Canada
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name Manitoba (meaning "strait of the spirit" or "lake of the prairies") is believed to be derived from the Cree, Ojibwe or Assiniboine language. Fur traders first arrived during the late 17th century
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was a brief and unsuccessful uprising by the Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel against the Dominion of Canada
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On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić.
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The landings commenced on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (D-Day), beginning at 6:30 AM
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Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin[1][2] His wife Eva (née Braun), committed suicide with him by ingesting poison
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he Second Battle of Ypres consisted of four separate engagements: * The Battle of Gravenstafel: Thursday 22 April – Friday 23 April 1915 * The Battle of St Julien: Saturday 24 April – 4 May 1915. * The Battle of Frezenberg: 8–13 May 1915 * The Battle of Bellewaarde: 24–25 May 1915