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Ottawa

capital city of Canada

13 dated entries naming Ottawa, drawn from 11 separate years between 1857 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

  • 1857December 31 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as the capital of Canada.source
  • 1857December 31 - Queen Victoria names Ottawa as capital of the Province 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
  • 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.source
  • 189428 June - A Colonial Conference, held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, resolves to lay a telegraph cable between Canada and Australia.source

20th century

  • 1951September 30 – Charlotte Whitton becomes mayor of Ottawa and Canada's first woman mayor of a major city.source
  • 1961June 13 – The NCC study of Ottawa's new Green Belt is completedsource
  • 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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