History timeline picture

Canadian Timeline Project

  • Jun 24, 1497

    Cabot's "discovery" of Newfoundland

  • May 10, 1534

    Cartier's "discovery" of Canada

  • Champlain founds Quebec City

  • Maisonneuve founds Montreal

  • Hudson Bay Company founded

  • Treaty of Utrecht

  • Battle of Louisbourg

    Was a French and Indian War on the North East cost of Nova Scotia. The British and Americans were agains the French and Canadians.
  • Fall of Quebec

  • Quebec Act

  • Northwest Company founded

  • Paris Treaty

  • Constitutional Act of 1791

  • Red River Settlement founded

  • End of the War of 1812

  • Union Act

  • Responsible Government Created

  • Charlottetown Conference

  • Confederation

  • Manitoba joins Canada

  • Northwest Rebellion

  • Date Louis Riel was executed

  • Assassination of Franz Ferdinard

    Archduke Franz Ferdinard and his wife were assasinated in Serbia by a Serbian terrorist. The following events occured afterwards:
    Austria-Hungary demanded that Serbia give up Bosnia. Serbia refused. Then, Austria - Hungary declared war on Serbia, Russia declared war on Austria - Hungary, Germany declared war on Russia and the British Empire and France declared war on Germany. Thus, creating World War 1.
  • Battle of Ypres II

    This was the first time Germany used poison gas on the Western Front in the first World War. It was also the first time Canadians pushed back the Germans on their own European terrain.
  • Battle of the Somme

    In this battle, the Allie's attacked on the Western Front. 58, 000 British troops were killed/injured.
  • Armstice Day

    World War I ended on this day.
  • Treaty of Versailes

    This was one of the peace treaties signed in World War I. It ended the war between Germany and the Allies. It was signed five years after the assassination of Franz Ferdinard. In 1918, the Armstice ended the fighting it took six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference.
  • Start of World War II

    This war was a global military conflict lasting until 1945. This involved most of the world's nations, eventually forming two opposing military forces. It was the most widespread war on history with more than 100 million military personnel. The major participants of the war placed their economic, industrial and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort. There was a mass death of civilians including the Holocaust and nuclear weapons.
  • D-Day

  • Hitler's Suicide

  • Victory in Europe Day

    This was the date when the World War II allies accepted the surrender of the Nazi Germany forces and the end of Hitler's Third Reich. On the 30th of April, Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin, so the Germans were forced to surrender.