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1215
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Signing of
Magna Carta in England
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1497
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European
exploration began with the expedition of John Cabot, who was the first to
draw a map of Canada’s East Coast
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1534 to 1542
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Jacques Cartier
made three voyages across the Atlantic, claiming the land for King Francis I
of France
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1550s
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The name of
Canada began appearing on maps
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1604
|
The first
European settlement north of Florida was established by French explorers
Pierre de Monts and Samuel de Champlain
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1608
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Samuel de
Champlain built a fortress at what is now Quebec City
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1610
|
English
settlement began
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1670
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King Charles II
of England granted the Hudson’s Bay Company exclusive trading rights over the
watershed draining into Hudson Bay
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1700s
|
The maple leaf
was adopted as a symbol in Canada
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1701
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The French and
the Iroquois made peace
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1755 to 1763
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“Great
Upheaval”: during the war between Britain and France, more than two-thirds of
the Acadians were deported from their homeland.
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1758
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The first
representative assembly was elected in Halifax, Nova Scotia
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1759
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The British
defeated the French in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Quebec City —
marking the end of France’s empire in America
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1763
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The Aboriginal
territorial rights were first guaranteed
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1774
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The British
Parliament passed the Quebec Act
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1776
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– The thirteen
British colonies to the south of Quebec declared independence and formed the
United States
– Joseph Brant
lead thousands of loyalist Mohawk Indians into Canada
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1791
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– The
Constitutional Act was passed and divided the Province of Quebec into Upper
Canada (later Ontario)
– The name “Canada” became official
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1793
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Upper Canada
became the first province in the Empire to move toward abolition
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