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Prime Minister of Canada

head of government of Canada

50 dated entries naming Prime Minister of Canada, drawn from 40 separate years between 1821 CE and 2025 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.

Also written as Canadian Prime Minister, Canadian prime minister in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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19th century

  • 1821July 2 – Sir Charles Tupper, 6th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1915)source
  • 1822January 28 – Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (died 1892)source
  • 1841November 20 – Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1919)source
  • 1854June 26 – Robert Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada, leader in World War I (died 1937)source
  • 1867August 7–September 20 – The first Canadian election sees John A. Macdonald's Conservatives elected to government and Macdonald becomes the Dominion's first prime minister.source
  • 1870July 3 – R. B. Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1947)source
  • 1873November 7 – Alexander Mackenzie becomes the second Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 1874July 3 – R. B. Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1947)source
  • 1874December 17 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1950)source
  • 1878October 17 – John A. Macdonald returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 1891March 5 – 1st Prime Minister of Canada Sir John A. Macdonald wins a 4th consecutive parliamentary victory over the Liberal Party.source
  • 1891June 6 – John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada, Father of Confederation (born 1815)source
  • 1892December 5 – John Thompson becomes Canada's fourth prime minister.source
  • 1894December 21 – Mackenzie Bowell becomes Canada's fifth prime minister.source
  • 1895September 18 – John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1979)source
  • 1896June 23 – Liberal leader Wilfrid Laurier defeats Charles Tupper during Canadian federal elections for the 8th Canadian Parliament, to become the first Francophone Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 1896July 11 – Wilfrid Laurier becomes Canada's seventh prime minister, and the first French-speaker to hold that office.source
  • 1897April 23 – Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1972)source

20th century

  • 1919February 17 – Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1841)source
  • 1919October 18 – Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (died 2000)source
  • 1926June 29 – Arthur Meighen briefly returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada during the King-Byng Affair.source
  • 1926September 25 – William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada, after winning the Canadian federal election.source
  • 1930July 28 – R. B. Bennett defeats William Lyon Mackenzie King in federal elections and becomes the Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 1930August 7 – R. B. Bennett takes office as the eleventh Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 1934January 11 – Jean Chrétien, 20th Prime Minister of Canadasource
  • 1935October 14 – 1935 Canadian federal election: The Liberal Party of William Lyon Mackenzie King wins a majority government, defeating the Conservative Party of Prime Minister R. B. Bennett.source
  • 1939March 20 – Brian Mulroney, 18th Prime Minister of Canada (died 2024)source
  • 1939September 3 – The United Kingdom, France, New Zealand, Australia and India (by its Viceroy) declare war on Nazi Germany. Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King, in English, and Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe, in French, give an international radio address stating the Dominion's intention to declare war also.source
  • 1944November 22 – Conscription Crisis: Prime Minister of Canada William Mackenzie King agrees a one-time conscription levy in Canada for overseas service.source
  • 1947June 26 – R. B. Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1870)source
  • 1948November 15 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent becomes Canada's 12th prime minister.source
  • 1950July 22 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian political leader, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1874)source
  • 1957June 21 – John Diefenbaker becomes the 13th Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 1959April 30 – Stephen Harper, 22nd Prime Minister of Canadasource
  • 1963April 22 – Lester Bowles Pearson becomes the 14th Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 1971December 25 – Justin Trudeau, 23rd Prime Minister of Canadasource
  • 1972December 27 – Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1897)source
  • 1979August 16 – John Diefenbaker, 83, Canadian politician, prime minister (1957–1963), heart attack.source
  • 1980March 3 – Pierre Trudeau returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 1984June 30 – John Turner becomes the 17th Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 1984September 17 – Brian Mulroney is sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 1993June 25 – Kim Campbell becomes the 19th, and first female, Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 1993November 4 – Jean Chrétien becomes the 20th Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 1993December 13 – Former Prime Minister of Canada Kim Campbell resigns as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and is succeeded as leader by Jean Charest.source
  • 199617 April – President Ion Iliescu and prime minister of Canada Jean Chretien inaugurate the Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant.source
  • 2000September 28 – Pierre Trudeau, 80, Prime Minister of Canada, prostate cancer and Parkinson's disease.source

21st century

  • 2006February 6 – Stephen Harper is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Canada after winning the federal election on January 23.source
  • 2009February 18: Al-Jazeera aired a recording by members of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in which they claim to have kidnapped two Canadian diplomats, one of them a former advisor to Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau. The men were abducted in Niger in December 2008. Salah Abu Mohammed, spokesman for the Algerian/North African group, also claimed responsibility for the capture of four European tourists in January 2009. The four were kidnapped in Mali, and are a British citizen, two Swiss, and a German.source
  • 2024February 29 – Brian Mulroney, 84, Canadian politician, prime minister (1984–1993) and MP (1983–1993), complications from a fall.source
  • 2025April 28 – 2025 Canadian federal election: Following Justin Trudeau's resignation as prime minister in March, former governor of the Bank of Canada Mark Carney becomes the Prime Minister of Canada. The Liberal Party wins a fourth consecutive election and forms a minority government.source

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