{"slug": "alberta", "label": "Alberta", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1951", "qid": "Q1951", "description": "province of Canada", "entries": 11, "years": 10, "span": [1670, 1988], "span_label": ["1670 CE", "1988 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 5}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 2}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "first-nations-in-canada", "label": "First Nations in Canada", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "june", "label": "June", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "quebec", "label": "Quebec", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "canada", "label": "Canada", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ontario", "label": "Ontario", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hudson-s-bay-company", "label": "Hudson's Bay Company", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hudson-bay", "label": "Hudson Bay", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "british-columbia", "label": "British Columbia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1670, "year_label": "1670 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 2", "text": "May 2 – The Hudson's Bay Company is granted a royal charter in England with the jurisdiction to control administration and commerce in \"Rupert's Land\", governed for the crown by Rupert, Duke of Cumberland, the cousin of King Charles II. The land is a 1.5 million square mile area of what is now Canada around Hudson Bay. The area controlled covers all of the modern province of Manitoba, most of Saskatchewan, and significant portions of Alberta and Nunavut, as well as parts of what are now Ontario and Quebec, and parts of the U.S. states of Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368809725#April–June", "title": "1670", "revid": 1368809725, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1877, "year_label": "1877 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 22", "text": "September 22 – Treaty 7 is concluded between several mainly Blackfoot First Nations tribes and the Canadian Confederation, at the Blackfoot Crossing of the Bow River, settling the Blackfoot on Indian reserves in what will become southern Alberta.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370239819#September", "title": "1877", "revid": 1370239819, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1899, "year_label": "1899 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 21", "text": "June 21 – \"Treaty 8\", the most comprehensive of the eleven Numbered Treaties, is signed between the British Crown on behalf of Canada, with various Cree groups of the First Nations, ceding 320000 sqmi of land in the northern parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia, as well as a portion of the Northwest Territories, to the Canadian government.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371393177#June", "title": "1899", "revid": 1371393177, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1905, "year_label": "1905 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 21", "text": "February 21 – Sir Wilfrid Laurier introduces a resolution in the Canadian parliament proposing that two new provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, be created out of the Northwest Territories.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373341358#February", "title": "1905", "revid": 1373341358, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1905, "year_label": "1905 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 1", "text": "September 1 – The Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan are established from the southwestern part of the Northwest Territories.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373341358#September", "title": "1905", "revid": 1373341358, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1916, "year_label": "1916 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Rodeo's first side-delivery bucking chute is designed and made by the Bascom brothers (Raymond, Mel, and Earl) and their father, John W. Bascom, at Welling, Alberta, Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373519106#Date_unknown", "title": "1916", "revid": 1373519106, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1919, "year_label": "1919 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "June", "text": "June – Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, along with his father John W. Bascom at Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, designs and makes rodeo's first reverse-opening side-delivery bucking chute, which becomes the world standard.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373508849#June", "title": "1919", "revid": 1373508849, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1922, "year_label": "1922 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle at Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369983934#Date_unknown", "title": "1922", "revid": 1369983934, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1971, "year_label": "1971 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 30", "text": "August 30 – The Progressive Conservatives under Peter Lougheed defeat the Social Credit government under Harry E. Strom in a general election, ending 36 years of uninterrupted power for Social Credit in Alberta.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369905382#August", "title": "1971", "revid": 1369905382, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1987, "year_label": "1987 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "July 31", "text": "July 31 – An F4-rated tornado devastates eastern Edmonton, Alberta; hardest hit are an industrial park and a trailer park. 27 people are killed and hundreds injured, with hundreds more left homeless and jobless.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372769014#July", "title": "1987", "revid": 1372769014, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1988, "year_label": "1988 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 13", "text": "February 13–28 – The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373532411#February", "title": "1988", "revid": 1373532411, "section": "Events › February"}}]}