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Gen Isaac Brock and 200 soldiers defeated a much larger American force at Queenston Heights.
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The Hudsons Bay Company and the North West Company merge together into one company.
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Welland Canal opens, linking lake Erie and lake Ontario for the first time.
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A disease that killed up to 10% of the population.
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Canada's first railway, the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad officially opened.
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Governor Gosford issued warrants for the arrest of 26 Patriote leaders on charges of high treason, initiating the events of the Lower Canada Rebellion. It lead to another battle.
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William Lyon Mackenzie led a rag-tag contingent of 800 men down Yonge Street toward Toronto. Government loyalists dispersed the rebels with a few shots, ending Mackenzie's erratic attempt to overthrow the colonial government
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Lord Durham submitted his Report on the Affairs of British North America following his trip to Canada after the Rebellions.
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The Charlottetown Conference was held in Charlottetown, PEI. At the conference Maritime union was virtually dropped, and the delegates agreed to meet a new conference in Québec to discuss a Canadian scheme for a union of all the colonies.
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The British North America Act was passed by the British Parliament and given royal assent by Queen Victoria on March 29.
