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Vancouver

largest city in the province of British Columbia, Canada

15 dated entries naming Vancouver, drawn from 14 separate years between 1798 CE and 2011 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 Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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18th century

  • 1798May 10 – George Vancouver, British Royal Navy officer, explorer (Vancouver, Canada is named after him) (born 1757)source

19th century

  • 1886April 6 – The settlement of Vancouver, British Columbia, is incorporated.source
  • 1886June 13 – The Great Vancouver Fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.source
  • 1888September 27 – Stanley Park is officially opened by Vancouver (B.C.) mayor David Oppenheimer.source
  • 1898October 15 – In Canada, the "9 O'Clock Gun" is fired for the first time at Stanley Park in Vancouver, and goes on to become a daily tradition to serve as a time signal for ships in port and for local residents to set their timepieces at exactly 9:00 p.m. local time.source

20th century

  • 19023 November – Postmaster-General James Drake opens a submarine telegraph cable from Southport, Queensland to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, completing a British Empire communications line.source
  • 1921March 12 – The Capitol Theatre, a lush 2,500 seat movie palace, opened on Vancouver's Granville Street.source
  • 1923July 26- Warren G Harding visits Vancouver the first sitting American president to visit Canada post confederationsource
  • 1924August – Mars is closer to Earth than it has been for many years and mysterious wireless signals are picked up at a Vancouver wireless station. It is thought by some to be evidence of Martian contact.source
  • 1948The Oakridge Transit Centre opens in Vancouver, British Columbia.source
  • 1956December 9 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810 (9), a Canadair Northstar, crashes on Slesse Mountain near Chilliwack during heavy weather. The plane carried five members of the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers and fans on their way home from an all-star game in Vancouver. Bodies were not found until the following late summer due to severe terrain and high altitude and unknown location of the crash. This was one of the worst civilian air disasters in the world at the time.source
  • 1966November 26 – In the Canadian Football League, the Saskatchewan Roughriders defeat the Ottawa Rough Riders to win the 54th Grey Cup at Vancouver's Empire Stadium 29–14. Saskatchewan are led by quarterback Ron Lancaster.source
  • 1987March 1 – The first Starbucks outside of the US is opened in Vancouver, Canada.source

21st century

  • 2010February 12–28 – The 2010 Winter Olympics are held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada.source
  • 2011June 15 – A riot broke out in Vancouver, British Columbia in the aftermath of the Boston Bruins' win over the Vancouver Canucks in game seven of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals.source

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