British Columbia

province of Canada

20 dated entries naming British Columbia, drawn from 19 separate years between 700 CE and 2011 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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7th century

700The Mount Edziza volcanic complex erupts in northern British Columbia, Canada.source

10th century

950The Mount Edziza volcanic complex in British Columbia, Canada, produces an explosive eruption that deposits the Sheep Track Member.source

19th century

1830Influenza epidemic strikes tribes of British Columbia.source
1858About 600 African-Americans from California move to Victoria, British Columbia by invitation of Governor James Douglas as part of the gold rush migration. One of them, Mifflin Gibbs, later plays a key role in persuading British Columbia to become part of Canada. Douglas declares Emancipation Day, August 1, the anniversary of the end of slavery in the British Empire, as the colonies' first official holiday August 1, to the chagrin of the white American element in the colony, though Victoria's West Indian police force, recruited by Douglas, was necessarily disbanded because of the hostility from the numerous Americans in the emerging city. Also among the African-Americans who came with the gold rush was Isaac "Ikey" Dixon, whose brawl in his Yale barbershop and subsequent safe-custody arrest triggered off the events known as McGowan's War, and who soon after became a noted and popular columnist for the Barkerville newspaper The Cariboo Sentinel.source
1862March 13 – A smallpox epidemic in San Francisco spreads to British Columbia.source
1871July 20 – British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.source
1872A British Columbia law bans all Asian and First Nations peoples from voting.source
1878Anti-Chinese sentiment in British Columbia reaches a high point as the government bans Chinese workers from public works.source
1886April 6 – The settlement of Vancouver, British Columbia, is incorporated.source
1886June 13 – The Great Vancouver Fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.source
1899June 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 320,000 sq mi 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.source
1900February 27 – Charles Semlin is dismissed as premier of British Columbia.source

20th century

1914May 23 – The Komagata Maru, a Japanese steamship which sailed from Japan to British Columbia carrying 376 passengers, is turned back from Canada under authority of exclusion laws prohibiting Asian immigrants. Most of the passengers returned to India.source
1918December 6 – A magnitude (M w ) 7.2 earthquake shakes British Columbia.source
1948The Oakridge Transit Centre opens in Vancouver, British Columbia.source
1951June 15–July 1 – In New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, thousands of acres of forests are destroyed in fires.source
1956December 9 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes into Slesse Mountain near Chilliwack, British Columbia. All 62 people aboard, including five Canadian Football League players, are killed.source
1964March 27 – Several towns in coastal British Columbia, including Prince Rupert, Tofino, Port Alberni and Zeballos, suffer damage from tsunamis associated with the Good Friday earthquake in Alaska. Overall damage is estimated at $10 million.source
1986May 2 – Expo 86, the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, a World's fair, opens in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.source

21st century

2011June 15 – A riot broke out in Vancouver, British Columbia in the aftermath of the Boston Bruins' win over the Vancouver Canucks in game seven of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals.source