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Quebec City

capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada

26 dated entries naming Quebec City, drawn from 21 separate years between 1608 CE and 2017 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 Quebec City, Quebec in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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17th century

  • 1608July 3 – The settlement of Quebec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.source
  • 1615June 2 – The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.source
  • 1620June 3 – The oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, is begun at Quebec City in modern-day Canada.source

18th century

  • 1703Between 1702 and 1703 – An epidemic of smallpox breaks out in Quebec, in which 2,000-3,000 people die (300-400 in Quebec City).source
  • 1711August 22 – The Quebec Expedition, a British attempt to attack Quebec as part of Queen Anne's War, fails when 8 of its ships are wrecked in the Saint Lawrence River and 890 people, mostly soldiers, drown.source
  • 171122 August – the Quebec Expedition, a British attempt to attack the city of Quebec as part of Queen Anne's War, fails when 8 of its ships are wrecked in the Saint Lawrence River and 850 soldiers drown, one of the worst disasters in British history up to this date.source
  • 1735Quebec: Construction begins on the Chemin du roy between Quebec and Montreal.source
  • 1759June 26 – After their fleet finishes navigation of the St. Lawrence and arriving at the Île d'Orléans, British troops go ashore on France's North American territory and begin the siege of Quebec City.source
  • 175913 September – Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British forces led by James Wolfe defeat the French commanded by the Marquis de Montcalm (although both commanders are fatally wounded), leading to the capitulation of Quebec Citysource
  • 175913 September – Battle of the Plains of Abraham (Seven Years' War): British forces, including the 78th Fraser Highlanders, defeat those of the French to take Quebec City.source
  • 1760April 20 – France's Marshal François Gaston de Lévis departs from Montreal up the St. Lawrence River with 7,000 troops on a plan to retake Quebec City from the British.source
  • 1760April 26 – Marshal Lévis and his troops land at Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, adjacent to Quebec City, and prepares to lay siege to the British occupying force.source
  • 1763April 18 – The folk hero Marie-Josephte Corriveau was sentenced to death by a British court martial for murdering her second husband, and was hanged in Quebec City.source
  • 1763December 23 – John Kinzie, Fur trader from Quebec City who was responsible for the "first murder in Chicago" (died June 6, 1828)source
  • 1764June 21 – The English-language Quebec Gazette is established in Quebec City, Canada (the oldest surviving newspaper in North America).source
  • 1775December 31 – At the Battle of Quebec, British forces repulsed an attack by the Continental Army to capture Quebec City and enlist French Canadian support.source
  • 1788July 24 – Governor General Lord Dorchester, by proclamation issued from the Chateau St. Louis in Quebec City, divides the British Province of Quebec into five Districts, namely: Gaspé, Nassau, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, and Hesse.source

19th century

  • 1809November 3: John Molson's steamboat, PS Accommodation, starts for Quebec City. It is 85 ft overall, has a 6 hp engine, and makes the distance in 36 hours, but stops at night and reaches Quebec on November 6. The Accommodation is the second steamboat in America, and probably the world.source
  • 182419 April – brigantine Helen of Dundee, bound for Quebec, founders on what becomes known as Helen's Reef off Rockall with fatalities.source
  • 1864June 29 – St-Hilaire train disaster, a passenger train operated by Grand Trunk Railway and travelling from Quebec City to Montreal is derailed at a swung open bridge after a signal passed at danger. The train also collapses onto a ship, sinking both ship and train. 99 people are killed and 100 injured making this the deadliest train accident in Canada's history.source

20th century

  • 1907August 24 – Part of the under-construction Quebec Bridge collapses in Quebec City killing 75 construction workers and injuring 11.source
  • 1910July 31 – British murderer Dr. Crippen is caught in Quebec Citysource
  • 1939May 17 – King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom arrive in Quebec City, to begin the first-ever tour of Canada by Canada's monarch.source
  • 1943August 14 – The Quadrant Conference begins in Quebec City; Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King meets with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.source
  • 1945October 16 – The Food and Agriculture Organization is established at a meeting in Quebec City as a specialized agency of the United Nations.source

21st century

  • 2017January 29 – A gunman opens fire at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, killing 6 and injuring 19 others.source

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