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New Brunswick

province of Canada

22 dated entries naming New Brunswick, drawn from 20 separate years between 1534 CE and 1997 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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16th century

  • 1534July 7 – The first known exchange between Europeans and the natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence occurs in what is now New Brunswick.source

18th century

  • 1750April 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).source
  • 1764July 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."source
  • 1784August 16 – Britain creates the colony of New Brunswick.source
  • 1784August 16 – In response to Loyalist demands, the Crown creates New Brunswick out of Nova Scotia. New Brunswick was then divided into eight counties.source
  • 1785New Brunswick is separated from Nova Scotiasource
  • 1785The University of New Brunswick is founded in Fredericton, New Brunswick.source
  • 1786New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland allowed to import goods from the United States.source
  • 1792Many Black Loyalists in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia migrate to Sierra Leone in West Africa, mainly because the promises of land in Canada were not kept by the British.source
  • 17951790s – British create protective tariffs to encourage timber production for Navy after Napoléon Bonaparte cuts off Baltic supply of tall trees and hardwood. First in New Brunswick then in Lower and Upper Canada. Montreal merchants expand transport to handle trade.source

19th century

  • 1825October 7 – The Miramichi Fire, a forest fire, breaks out in New Brunswick (Canada).source
  • 1842August 9 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty ends the Aroostook War, settling once and for all the Maine–New Brunswick border dispute.source
  • 1848First telegraph lines in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.source
  • 1860Chalon head postage stamp issued in New Brunswicksource
  • 1862Around 40% of the Fair Isle population migrates to New Brunswick.source
  • 1863December 7 — New Brunswick and Nova Scotia: the Chesapeake Affair.source
  • 1865March 7 – New Brunswick rejects a Confederation scheme.source
  • 1867March 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.source
  • 1897October 29 – Henry Emmerson becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing James Mitchell.source

20th century

  • 1932August 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.source
  • 1933June 1 – Leonard Tilley becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Charles Richardssource
  • 1997May 31 – The 13-kilometer Confederation Bridge, the world's longest bridge spanning ice-covered waters, opens between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, Canada.source

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