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The group marches for 82 days and arrives at the first Hudson's Bay fort, at Moose Factory on June 19.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368502958#January–March", "title": "1686", "revid": 1368502958, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1700, "year_label": "1700 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 12", "text": "January 12 - Marguerite Bourgeoys (born Troyes, France on April 17, 1620), a first school teacher in Montreal and founder of the congregation of Notre Dame (the first order of uncloistered nuns in North America).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349952141#Deaths", "title": "1700 in Canada", "revid": 1349952141, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1702, "year_label": "1702 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "October 28", "text": "October 28 – Sieur Juchereau, Lieutenant General of Montréal, establishes the first trading post on the Wabash River in order to trade buffalo hides with American Indians. The site of the trading post may be the modern-day location of Vincennes, Indiana.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362986314#October–December", "title": "1702", "revid": 1362986314, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1734, "year_label": "1734 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "A Montreal slave named Marie-Joseph Angelique learns that she is to be sold to someone else. Possibly, to obscure her attempt to escape, she may have set fire to the house of her mistress, Thérèse de Couagne. The fire could not be contained, causing damage to half of Old Montreal. She was charged, tried and hanged, bringing attention to the conditions of the slaves.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349953199#Events", "title": "1734 in Canada", "revid": 1349953199, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1734, "year_label": "1734 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 21", "text": "June 21 – In Montreal, New France, a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is tortured then hanged by the French authorities for allegedly setting a fire that destroyed part of the city.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363450203#April–June", "title": "1734", "revid": 1363450203, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1735, "year_label": "1735 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Quebec: Construction begins on the Chemin du roy between Quebec and Montreal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365121192#Date_unknown", "title": "1735", "revid": 1365121192, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1760, "year_label": "1760 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Saturday September 6 – Amherst arrives at Montreal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349954129#Events", "title": "1760 in Canada", "revid": 1349954129, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1760, "year_label": "1760 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 20", "text": "April 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.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358844484#April–June", "title": "1760", "revid": 1358844484, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1763, "year_label": "1763 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "1763–1820 The Conquest: French defeated. British take over and successfully expand fur trade from Montreal (North West Company). Much money is invested in Montreal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349954264#Events", "title": "1763 in Canada", "revid": 1349954264, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1764, "year_label": "1764 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Canada is divided into two chief judicial districts (Quebec and Montreal). Martial law, in Canada, terminates.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349954305#Full_date_unknown", "title": "1764 in Canada", "revid": 1349954305, "section": "Events › Full date unknown"}}, {"year": 1765, "year_label": "1765 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "May 18", "text": "May 18 – Not long after British rule has started over the formerly French colony of Quebec, an accidental fire destroys one quarter of the town of Montreal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373039097#April–June", "title": "1765", "revid": 1373039097, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1765, "year_label": "1765 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "May 18", "text": "18 May – Fire destroys a large part of the town of Montreal, Quebec.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351083057#Events", "title": "1765 in Canada", "revid": 1351083057, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1775, "year_label": "1775 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 1", "text": "May 1 – A bust of George III is found, in Montreal, adorned with beads, cross, and mitre, with the words \"Pope of Canada: Sot of England.\" A reward of 500 guineas does not lead to apprehension of the culprit.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349954703#Events", "title": "1775 in Canada", "revid": 1349954703, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1775, "year_label": "1775 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 25", "text": "September 25 – American Revolution: Siege of Fort St. Jean – Battle of Longue-Pointe: Thirteen Colonies revolutionary forces under Maj. Ethan Allen attack Montreal in Quebec, commanded by British General Guy Carleton. Allen's forces are defeated, and Allen himself is captured and held on British ships until he is released.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365589248#July–December", "title": "1775", "revid": 1365589248, "section": "Events › July–December"}}, {"year": 1775, "year_label": "1775 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 13", "text": "November 13 – American Revolution: Battle of Montreal – American forces under Brigadier General Richard Montgomery capture Montreal. British General Guy Carleton escapes to Quebec.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365589248#July–December", "title": "1775", "revid": 1365589248, "section": "Events › July–December"}}, {"year": 1777, "year_label": "1777 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "June 20", "text": "June 20 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, bishop of Montreal (d.1840)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349954765#Births", "title": "1777 in Canada", "revid": 1349954765, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1782, "year_label": "1782 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Montreal Upper Yellowstone, on old Indian trail along east slope of the mountains, challenging Spanish trade goods.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349954966#Events", "title": "1782 in Canada", "revid": 1349954966, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1786, "year_label": "1786 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "John Molson founds his first brewery in Montreal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349955122#Events", "title": "1786 in Canada", "revid": 1349955122, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1795, "year_label": "1795 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "1790s – British create protective tariffs to encourage timber production for Navy after Napoléon Bonaparte cuts off Baltic supply of tall trees and hardwood. First in New Brunswick then in Lower and Upper Canada. Montreal merchants expand transport to handle trade.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349955447#Events", "title": "1795 in Canada", "revid": 1349955447, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1812, "year_label": "1812 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "David Thompson retires to Montreal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349955960#Events", "title": "1812 in Canada", "revid": 1349955960, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1812, "year_label": "1812 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "August 20", "text": "August 20 – Launch of John Molson's second steamboat, the Swiftsure, at Montreal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349955960#Events", "title": "1812 in Canada", "revid": 1349955960, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1822, "year_label": "1822 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Louis-Joseph Papineau and John Neilson, both members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, travel from Montreal to England to oppose an Act of Union identifying the French Canadians as a minority without language rights. The act is not passed in the British Parliament.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349956253#Events", "title": "1822 in Canada", "revid": 1349956253, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1825, "year_label": "1825 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "September 7", "text": "September 7 – Soldiers of the 70th Regiment subdue a fire, which consumes over eighty buildings, in Montreal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349956338#Events", "title": "1825 in Canada", "revid": 1349956338, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1827, "year_label": "1827 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "First temperance society in Canada formed in Montreal", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349956407#Events", "title": "1827 in Canada", "revid": 1349956407, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1832, "year_label": "1832 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 21", "text": "May 21 – Election riots at Montreal. Three supporters of Daniel Tracey of the Parti Patriote are shot dead by government troops. Colonel MacIntosh and Captain Temple are arrested for ordering the shooting. The next day, it is announced that Tracey is elected to the Legislative Assembly for Montreal West.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349956535#Events", "title": "1832 in Canada", "revid": 1349956535, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1833, "year_label": "1833 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 19", "text": "September 19 – Military riot at Montreal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349956559#Events", "title": "1833 in Canada", "revid": 1349956559, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1837, "year_label": "1837 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 6", "text": "November 6 Louis-Joseph Papineau begins the Lower Canada Rebellion in the Quebec city of Montreal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360323585#October–December", "title": "1837", "revid": 1360323585, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1844, "year_label": "1844 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Amnesty in Montreal provides for Papineau's return.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349956904#Events", "title": "1844 in Canada", "revid": 1349956904, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1847, "year_label": "1847 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "January 30", "text": "January 30 – Lord Elgin, Governor, arrives at Montreal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349956982#Events", "title": "1847 in Canada", "revid": 1349956982, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1849, "year_label": "1849 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 25", "text": "April 25 – James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, the Governor General of Canada, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362576929#April–June", "title": "1849", "revid": 1362576929, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1851, "year_label": "1851 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "December 9", "text": "December 9 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358777790#October–December", "title": "1851", "revid": 1358777790, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1861, "year_label": "1861 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "April 14", "text": "April 14 – A major flood hits Montreal", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349957569#Events", "title": "1861 in Canada", "revid": 1349957569, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1864, "year_label": "1864 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 29", "text": "June 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.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369213895#June", "title": "1864", "revid": 1369213895, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1872, "year_label": "1872 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 22", "text": "June 22 – A Grand Trunk Railway express passenger train from Toronto to Montreal derails near Shannonville, Ontario, killing 34.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349957885#Events", "title": "1872 in Canada", "revid": 1349957885, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1875, "year_label": "1875 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "March 3", "text": "March 3 – The first indoor ice hockey game is played at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371928758#March", "title": "1875", "revid": 1371928758, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1879, "year_label": "1879 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "June 27", "text": "June 27 - Murder of Mary Gallagher in Griffintown, Montreal", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371848735#Events", "title": "1879 in Canada", "revid": 1371848735, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1885, "year_label": "1885 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "November 7", "text": "November 7 – The Last Spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Craigellachie, British Columbia. John A. Macdonald receives a telegram announcing that the first train from Montreal in Quebec is approaching the Pacific.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349958268#Events", "title": "1885 in Canada", "revid": 1349958268, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1893, "year_label": "1893 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 22", "text": "March 22 – The Montreal Hockey Club wins the First Stanley Cup by defeating the Ottawa Hockey Club 3 to 1 at Montreal's Victoria Rink", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349958453#Sport", "title": "1893 in Canada", "revid": 1349958453, "section": "Sport"}}, {"year": 1899, "year_label": "1899 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "August 10", "text": "August 10 – Marshall \"Major\" Taylor wins the world 1 mi professional cycling championship in Montreal, securing his place as the first African American world champion in any sport.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371393177#August", "title": "1899", "revid": 1371393177, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1906, "year_label": "1906 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – Canada's first movie theatre Ouimetoscope opens in Montreal", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349958810#Events", "title": "1906 in Canada", "revid": 1349958810, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1916, "year_label": "1916 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 30", "text": "March 30 – National Hockey Association's Montreal Canadiens win their First Stanley Cup by defeating the Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Portland Rosebuds 3 games to 2. All Games were played at Montreal's Montreal Arena.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373519106#Sport", "title": "1916", "revid": 1373519106, "section": "Sport"}}, {"year": 1917, "year_label": "1917 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "November 22", "text": "November 22 – In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the National Hockey Association suspends operations.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373519608#November", "title": "1917", "revid": 1373519608, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1920, "year_label": "1920 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June", "text": "June – The Catholic Women's League is formed in Montreal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367665330#Events", "title": "1920 in Canada", "revid": 1367665330, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 5", "text": "August 5: Camillien Houde, the mayor of Montreal, is arrested for sedition due to his anti-conscription rhetoric", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368703822#July_to_December", "title": "1940 in Canada", "revid": 1368703822, "section": "Events › July to December"}}, {"year": 1952, "year_label": "1952 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "September 6", "text": "September 6 – The CBC in Montreal, Quebec, goes on air launching television in Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373187098#September–October", "title": "1952", "revid": 1373187098, "section": "Events › September–October"}}, {"year": 1963, "year_label": "1963 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 5", "text": "June 5 – The first annual National Hockey League Entry Draft is held in Montreal, Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370539540#June", "title": "1963", "revid": 1370539540, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1963, "year_label": "1963 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "November 29", "text": "November 29 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8 crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval International Airport near Montreal, killing all 118 on board, the worst air disaster for many years in Canada's history.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370539540#November", "title": "1963", "revid": 1370539540, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1966, "year_label": "1966 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "October 14", "text": "October 14 – The city of Montreal inaugurates the Montreal Metro system.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370246126#October", "title": "1966", "revid": 1370246126, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1967, "year_label": "1967 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 27", "text": "April 27 – Montreal, Quebec, Expo 67, a World's Fair to coincide with the Canadian Confederation centennial, officially opens with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson igniting the Expo Flame in the Place des Nations.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370160888#April", "title": "1967", "revid": 1370160888, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1967, "year_label": "1967 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 24", "text": "July 24 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delights many Quebecers but angers the Canadian government and many English Canadians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370160888#July", "title": "1967", "revid": 1370160888, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1967, "year_label": "1967 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "October 29", "text": "October 29 – Expo 67 closes in Montreal, after having attracted more than 50 million visitors in six months.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370160888#October", "title": "1967", "revid": 1370160888, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 26", "text": "May 26–June 2 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono conduct their second bed-in. The follow-up to the Amsterdam event is held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec. 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