{"slug": "new-brunswick", "label": "New Brunswick", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brunswick", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1965", "qid": "Q1965", "description": "province of Canada", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [1534, 1997], "span_label": ["1534 CE", "1997 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "nova-scotia", "label": "Nova Scotia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "quebec", "label": "Quebec", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ontario", "label": "Ontario", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ottawa", "label": "Ottawa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-great-britain", "label": "Kingdom of Great Britain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "canada", "label": "Canada", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1534, "year_label": "1534 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 7", "text": "July 7 – The first known exchange between Europeans and the natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence occurs in what is now New Brunswick.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369558671#July–September", "title": "1534", "revid": 1369558671, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1750, "year_label": "1750 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 25", "text": "April 25 – The Acadian settlement in Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, is burnt by the French army, and the population is forcibly relocated, after France and Great Britain agree that the Missaguash River should be the new boundary between peninsular British Nova Scotia and the mainland remnant of French Acadia (now New Brunswick).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349828876#April–June", "title": "1750", "revid": 1349828876, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1764, "year_label": "1764 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 11", "text": "July 11 – Conditional repatriation of the Acadians in Canada, French colonists who took up arms against the British during the war, is approved by order of King George III on advice of the Privy Council. The Council offers settlement to any Acadians willing to take an oath of allegiance to the British Crown and that those living in New Brunswick are to \"be allowed to settle in Nova Scotia, but that they should be dispersed in small numbers in various localities.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363539304#July–September", "title": "1764", "revid": 1363539304, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1784, "year_label": "1784 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 16", "text": "August 16 – Britain creates the colony of New Brunswick.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370567291#July–September", "title": "1784", "revid": 1370567291, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1785, "year_label": "1785 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The University of New Brunswick is founded in Fredericton, New Brunswick.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370566385#Date_unknown", "title": "1785", "revid": 1370566385, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1825, "year_label": "1825 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "October 7", "text": "October 7 – The Miramichi Fire, a forest fire, breaks out in New Brunswick (Canada).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341744335#October–December", "title": "1825", "revid": 1341744335, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1867, "year_label": "1867 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 29", "text": "March 29 – The British North America Act receives royal assent, forming the Dominion of Canada, in an event known as the Confederation. This unites the Province of Canada (Quebec and Ontario), New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia on July 1. Ottawa will become the capital.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365231456#March", "title": "1867", "revid": 1365231456, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1932, "year_label": "1932 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 18", "text": "August 18–19 – Scottish aviator Jim Mollison becomes the first pilot to make an East-to-West solo transatlantic flight, from Portmarnock, County Dublin, Ireland to RCAF Station Pennfield Ridge, New Brunswick, Canada, in his de Havilland Puss Moth high-wing monoplane The Heart's Content.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370718676#August", "title": "1932", "revid": 1370718676, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1997, "year_label": "1997 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "May 31", "text": "May 31 – The 13-kilometer Confederation Bridge, the world's longest bridge spanning ice-covered waters, opens between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367978156#May", "title": "1997", "revid": 1367978156, "section": "Events › May"}}]}