{"slug": "acadia", "label": "Acadia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2822228", "qid": "Q2822228", "description": "colony of France", "entries": 16, "years": 12, "span": [1603, 1762], "span_label": ["1603 CE", "1762 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 11}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}], "also_known_as": ["L'Acadie"], "related": [{"slug": "war-of-the-spanish-succession", "label": "War of the Spanish Succession", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "nova-scotia", "label": "Nova Scotia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "louisiana", "label": "Louisiana", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "new-netherland", "label": "New Netherland", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "north-america", "label": "North America", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "hudson-bay", "label": "Hudson Bay", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "saint-kitts", "label": "Saint Kitts", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "florida", "label": "Florida", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-orleans", "label": "New Orleans", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mississippi-river", "label": "Mississippi River", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "west-indies", "label": "West Indies", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1603, "year_label": "1603 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "French Huguenot Pierre de Gua is granted royal permission to settle in North America, founding the colony of Acadia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366656830#Date_unknown", "title": "1603", "revid": 1366656830, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1604, "year_label": "1604 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "France begins settling Acadia, first successful French North American colony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348862771#Date_unknown", "title": "1604", "revid": 1348862771, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1605, "year_label": "1605 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Habitation at Port-Royal established by France under Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons, the first European colonization of Nova Scotia in North America (at this time part of Acadia); the Gregorian calendar is adopted.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362477436#Date_unknown", "title": "1605", "revid": 1362477436, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 15", "text": "January 15 – After overwintering with the Huron Indians, Samuel de Champlain and Recollect Father Joseph Le Caron visit the Petun and Ottawa Indians of the Great Lakes. This is Champlain's last trip in North America before returning to France. Having secured Canada, he helps create French America, New France, or L'Acadie.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#January–February", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › January–February"}}, {"year": 1632, "year_label": "1632 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 20", "text": "June 20 – Two ships, Saint Jean (250 tons) and L'Esperance-en-Dieu, set sail from La Rochelle in France, bound for Acadia in North America.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358528035#April–June", "title": "1632", "revid": 1358528035, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1667, "year_label": "1667 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 21", "text": "21 July (Old Style – 31 July New Style) – The Second Anglo-Dutch War is ended by the Treaty of Breda, negotiation of which began on 14 May and coming into effect in August. In the Americas, the Dutch retain control of Surinam, the English retain New Netherland and the French Acadia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737374#Events", "title": "1667 in England", "revid": 1353737374, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1667, "year_label": "1667 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 31", "text": "July 31 – Second Anglo-Dutch War – The Treaty of Breda ends the war by England against the Dutch Republic, France and Denmark and Norway. In the Americas, the Dutch retain control of Surinam, the English retain New Netherland and the French Acadia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365989201#July–September", "title": "1667", "revid": 1365989201, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1667, "year_label": "1667 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 31", "text": "31 July – The Treaty of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War and recognizes Acadia as a French possession.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737380#Events", "title": "1667 in France", "revid": 1353737380, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1702, "year_label": "1702 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Having begun in Europe in 1701, the War of the Spanish Succession spreads to North America (Queen Anne's War) in Acadia and New England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364923385#Events", "title": "1702 in Canada", "revid": 1364923385, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1710, "year_label": "1710 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The English recapture Acadia, this time permanently, and rename it Nova Scotia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349952478#Events", "title": "1710 in Canada", "revid": 1349952478, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1713, "year_label": "1713 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 11", "text": "April 11 – The Second Treaty of Utrecht between Great Britain and France ends the War of the Spanish Succession. France cedes Newfoundland, Acadia, Hudson Bay and St Kitts to Great Britain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360271134#April–June", "title": "1713", "revid": 1360271134, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1713, "year_label": "1713 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 11", "text": "11 April – The Second Treaty of Utrecht between Great Britain and France ends the War of the Spanish Succession; France cedes Newfoundland, Acadia, Hudson Bay and St Kitts to Great Britain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353738001#Events", "title": "1713 in France", "revid": 1353738001, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1713, "year_label": "1713 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 23", "text": "June 23 – French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Great Britain, or leave Nova Scotia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360271134#April–June", "title": "1713", "revid": 1360271134, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1721, "year_label": "1721 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "800 Acadians take oath of allegiance to the French.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349952847#Events", "title": "1721 in Canada", "revid": 1349952847, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1755, "year_label": "1755 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Great Expulsion begins. English Expulsion of the French Acadians—who lived and intermarried with Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Mi'kmaqs (many of whom were also taken). Forcibly loaded into ships and deposited randomly along the southern (now American) coasts, many (probably 1/3 to 1/2) died. Some are ancestors of the Cajuns of Louisiana, and a few made their ways back home. Acadians were idealists, hostile to King and Church authority, who lived in peace with the Mi'kmaqs. Neither the French rulers nor the English wanted them.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349953912#Events", "title": "1755 in Canada", "revid": 1349953912, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1762, "year_label": "1762 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 3", "text": "November 3 – According to the preliminaries of peace, signed at Fontainebleau, England is to have, with certain West Indies, Florida, Louisiana, to the Mississippi River (without New Orleans), Canada, Acadia, Cape Breton Island and its dependencies, and the fisheries, subject to certain French interests. Spain is to have New Orleans and Louisiana, west of the Mississippi, with an undetermined Western boundary.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349954203#Events", "title": "1762 in Canada", "revid": 1349954203, "section": "Events"}}]}