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Prime Minister of Canada

head of government of Canada

42 dated entries naming Prime Minister of Canada, drawn from 34 separate years between 1821 CE and 2006 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

  • 1821July 2 – Sir Charles Tupper, 6th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915)source
  • 1822January 28 – Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)source
  • 1823December 27 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1917)source
  • 1845November 10 – Sir John Thompson, 4th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1894)source
  • 1854June 26 – Robert Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada, leader in World War I (d. 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
  • 1873November 7 – Alexander Mackenzie becomes the second Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 1878October 17 – John A. Macdonald returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 1882February 1 – Louis St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)source
  • 1891March 5 – 1st Prime Minister of Canada Sir John A. Macdonald wins a 4th consecutive parliamentary victory over the Liberal Party.source
  • 1892December 5 – John Thompson becomes Canada's fourth prime minister.source
  • 1893October 30 – Sir John Abbott, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)source
  • 1894December 12 – Sir John Thompson, 4th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845)source
  • 1894December 21 – Mackenzie Bowell becomes Canada's fifth prime minister.source
  • 1895September 18 – John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1979)source
  • 1896July 11 – Wilfrid Laurier becomes Canada's seventh prime minister, and the first French-speaker to hold that office.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

20th century

  • 1917December 10 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)source
  • 1919October 18 – Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 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
  • 1929June 7 – John Turner, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2020)source
  • 1930August 7 – R. B. Bennett takes office as the eleventh Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 1930July 28 – R. B. Bennett defeats William Lyon Mackenzie King in federal elections and becomes the 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
  • 1937June 10 – Sir Robert Borden, Canadian lawyer, politician and 8th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)source
  • 1938August 28 – Paul Martin, 21st Prime Minister of Canadasource
  • 1939June 5 – Joe Clark, 16th Prime Minister of Canadasource
  • 1939The 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
  • 1948November 15 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent becomes Canada's 12th prime minister.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

21st century

  • 2006February 6 – Stephen Harper is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Canada after winning the federal election on January 23.source

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