Ottawa

capital city of Canada

10 dated entries naming Ottawa, drawn from 9 separate years between 1855 CE and 2012 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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19th century

1855January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city.'source
1857December 31 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as the capital of Canada.source
1858Queen Victoria announces her choice of Ottawa as capital of the Province of Canada.source
1866June 8 – The Parliament of Canada meets for the first time in Ottawa.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

20th century

1951September 30 – Charlotte Whitton becomes mayor of Ottawa and Canada's first woman mayor of a major city.source
1990February 12 – Representatives of NATO and the Warsaw Pact meet in Ottawa for an "Open Skies" conference. The conference results in agreements about superpower troop levels in Europe and on German reunification.source
1990May 29 – Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Ottawa for a 29-hour visit.source
1997December 3 – In Ottawa (Canada) representatives from 121 countries sign a treaty prohibiting the manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel land mines. However, the United States, the People's Republic of China, Russia, South Korea and 32 other nations do not ratify the treaty.source

21st century

2012September 7 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran, and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and human rights abuses.source

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