Canada

1,079 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Canada, 1700 CE to 2005 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

18th century

397 entries, 1700 CE to 1799 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

1700By now, it is clear that New France is not going to be self-sufficient.Canada source
1703June 6 - Louis de la Corne, Chevalier de la Corne, explorer (died 1761).Canada source
1710The English take Port Royal and name it Annapolis Royal.Canada source
1717January 29 - Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, army officer (died 1797)Canada source
17251725-1729 - First Arctic expedition of Vitas Bering.Canada source
1729Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, governor of Cape Breton.Canada source
1734January 10 – Fleury Mesplet, French-born Canadian printerCanada source
1739August: Alexander Henry the elder, fur trader, merchant, militia officer, jp, and author (died 1824)Canada source
1742Esteban José Martínez Fernández y Martínez de la Sierra, naval officer (died 1798)Canada source
174711 February – At the Battle of Grand Pré, Col. Arthur Noble's detachment of British troops from Massachusetts, face off against a French and Mi'kmaq force under Nicholas Antoine Coulon de Villiers. Noble and around 70 of his soldiers were killed.Canada source
1750Simon McTavish, fur trader and dealer in furs, militia officer, office holder, landowner, seigneur, and businessman (d.1804)Canada source
1754France sends 3,000 regulars to Canada. Fort Duquesne is built. Benjamin Franklin says the British Colonies will have no peace while France holds Canada. Ango-French competition in the Ohio Valley sparks conflict.Canada source
1756France sends two battalions to Canada, with provisions, and 1,300,000 livres, in specie, which has the effect of depreciating the paper currency by 25 per cent.Canada source
1760September 6 to September 7 – A council of war, at Montreal, favors capitulation.Canada source
1763December 23 – John Kinzie, Fur trader from Quebec City who was responsible for the "first murder in Chicago" (died June 6, 1828)Canada source
1768October 17- The Treaty of Fort Stanwix is concluded.Canada source
1772James Cook and George Vancouver explore the northwest coast of America.Canada source
1775April 19 – The American War of Independence begins, at Concord and Lexington, Massachusetts.Canada source
1776March 30 – Jonathan Belcher, lawyer, chief justice, and lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia (b.1710)Canada source
1780May 19 – an unusual darkening of the day sky was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada. This has never been explained, though clouds of smoke from massive forest fires are the most likely cause.Canada source
1782May 21: Robert Monckton, army officer and colonial administrator (born 1726)Canada source
1785New Brunswick is separated from Nova ScotiaCanada source
1789Lord Grenville proposes that lands in Upper Canada be held in free and common soccage, and that the tenure of Lower Canadian lands be optional with the inhabitants.Canada source
1792December – A bill to abolish slavery in Lower Canada does not pass.Canada source
1797July 21 – American David McLane, being convicted of high treason, is hanged on a gibbet on the glacis of the fortifications at Quebec.Canada source

19th century

439 entries, 1800 CE to 1899 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

1800August – Upper Canada expands westward and further into the interior, as the first settlers arrive at the upper Grand River.Canada source
1804Merger of the North West Company and XY Fur Companies. The XY Company is absorbed by the North West Company.Canada source
1808The Legislative Assembly of Quebec criticizes the swearing-in of Ezekiel Hart because he is of Jewish faith, and votes his expulsion.Canada source
1812David Thompson retires to Montreal.Canada source
1816June 19 – After several years of harassment, sabotage, and minor skirmishes between members of the Hudson's Bay and North West Companies, a full-scale battle (today known at Battle of Seven Oaks) breaks out between parties led by Cuthbert Grant and Robert Semple. The Hudson's Bay men, instigators of the confrontation though outnumbered nearly three to one, suffer 21 deaths, while Grant's party suffers two deaths, one Métis and one Native. The battle is frequently cited as a seminal moment in the history of the Métis people.Canada source
1822Louis-Joseph Papineau and John Neilson, both members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, travel from Montreal to England to oppose an Act of Union identifying the French Canadians as a minority without language rights. The act is not passed in the British Parliament.Canada source
1827March 15 – The University of Toronto is charteredCanada source
1832May 21 – Election riots at Montreal. Three supporters of Daniel Tracey of the Parti Patriote are shot dead by government troops. Colonel MacIntosh and Captain Temple are arrested for ordering the shooting. The next day, it is announced that Tracey is elected to the Legislative Assembly for Montreal West.Canada source
1835In the British Parliament, Mr. Stanley says there is no evidence to justify any one of the 92 Resolutions.Canada source
1837Among the malcontents are Dr. Nelson, Messrs. Papineau, Wilson, Viger, Lacoste, Brown, and Girod.Canada source
1840June 10 — Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are shot at.Canada source
1845Lord Cathcart, the new governor, arrives.Canada source
1848First telegraph lines in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.Canada source
1852November 10 – The Grand Trunk Railway Company is incorporated to build a railway between Toronto and Montreal.Canada source
1855Premier of Nova Scotia — William YoungCanada source
1859The all-Black Victoria Pioneer Rifle Company is formed to defend British Columbia.Canada source
1862The 1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic sweeps through Fort Victoria area and up the length of the northwest coast, killing an estimated 20,000 First Nations peopleCanada source
1867July 15 – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau becomes the first premier of Quebec.Canada source
1872October 31 – Oliver Mowat becomes Premier of Ontario replaces the retiring Edward Blake.Canada source
1874October 1 – The North-West Mounted Police base at Fort Macleod is foundedCanada source
1877February 28 – University of Manitoba founded.Canada source
1880February 14 – The wife of the governor general, The Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne, is seriously injured when the viceregal sleigh overturns on a Rudolph Ottawa street.Canada source
1885November 7 – The Last Spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Craigellachie, British Columbia. John A. Macdonald receives a telegram announcing that the first train from Montreal in Quebec is approaching the Pacific.Canada source
1891December 10 – The Calgary and Edmonton Railway opens, connecting Edmonton to the national railway network for the first time.Canada source
1895First ascent of Mount Hector in Banff National Park.Canada source

20th century

241 entries, 1900 CE to 1996 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

1900February 27 – Charles Semlin is dismissed as premier of British Columbia.Canada source
1902February – The town of Crofton, British Columbia, is founded on Vancouver IslandCanada source
1904April 19 – The Great Toronto Fire destroys much of that city's downtown, but kills no one.Canada source
1907August 24 – Part of the under-construction Quebec Bridge collapses in Quebec City killing 75 construction workers and injuring 11.Canada source
1910January 10 – Le Devoir first publishedCanada source
1912August 17 – Circular No. 17 bans the teaching of the French language in Ontario schools.Canada source
1915May 3 – "In Flanders Fields" is written by Canadian poet John McCrae.Canada source
1916Emily Murphy became the first female magistrate in Canada, and in the British Empire.Canada source
1918April 21 – Canadian Captain Roy Brown (209 Squadron, RAF) supposedly shoots down the famed Red Baron. More accepted theories credit either Sergeant Cedric Popkin (Australian 24th Machine Gun Company), Gunner Snowy Evans or Gunner Robert Buie (both of 53rd Battery, 14th Field Artillery Brigade, RAA) with the kill.Canada source
1921March 12 – The Capitol Theatre, a lush 2,500 seat movie palace, opened on Vancouver's Granville Street.Canada source
1923Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud Montgomery (1921)Canada source
1927October 4 – Worthington mine disaster occurs.Canada source
1930June 29 – Eight Jesuit martyrs become the first Canadian saintsCanada source
1933December 12 – Eddie Shore of the Boston Bruins hits Ace Bailey of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Bailey lands head first, and severe head trauma ends his career. The Ace Bailey Benefit Game, a forerunner of the NHL All-Star Game, is played on February 14, 1934.Canada source
1937First ascent of Mount Lucania (5,226 m), third highest mountain in Canada.Canada source
1941July 24 – Workers began an illegal strike at the Alcan aluminum complex at Arvida, Quebec, when 700 workers walk off the job. Some 4,500 workers occupy the factory the next day. Minister of Munitions and Supply C.D. Howe says that enemy sabotage was responsible for the work stoppage, and soldiers are sent to secure the facility. Work resumes on July 29 as workers and management negotiate, assisted by federal conciliators. A subsequent royal commission rejects the sabotage theory and finds that the strike was the result of worker dissatisfaction with wages and working conditions, as well as a heat wave that occurred immediately before the strike.Canada source
1945Family allowance payments are introduced.Canada source
1948Stephen Leacock Award: Paul Hiebert, Sarah BinksCanada source
1953January 27 – The Canadian Dental Association approves the use of fluoride in drinking waterCanada source
1958Farley Mowat's Coppermine Journey: An Account of a Great AdventureCanada source
1961November 7 – Woodrow Lloyd becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing Tommy DouglasCanada source
1965March 2 – Lucien Rivard escapes from a Montreal area jailCanada source
1969Farley Mowat - The Boat Who Wouldn't FloatCanada source
1974Stephen Leacock Award: Donald Jack, That's Me in the MiddleCanada source
1980October 10 – Wayne Gretzky plays in his first NHL game when his Edmonton Oilers are defeated by the Chicago Black HawksCanada source

21st century

2 entries, 2001 CE to 2005 CE

2001August 9 – Kimberly Rogers, Sudbury woman whose suicide while under house arrest for a disputed welfare fraud conviction led to a major scandal and inquest (born c1961)Canada source
2005July 2 – Live 8 takes place in Park Place, Barrie, Ontario.Canada source