{"slug": "new-brunswick", "label": "New Brunswick", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brunswick", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1965", "qid": "Q1965", "description": "province of Canada", "entries": 22, "years": 20, "span": [1534, 1997], "span_label": ["1534 CE", "1997 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 6}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 5}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "nova-scotia", "label": "Nova Scotia", "shared": 9}, {"slug": "acadians", "label": "Acadians", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "united-states", "label": "United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "newfoundland-and-labrador", "label": "Newfoundland and Labrador", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "quebec", "label": "Quebec", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ontario", "label": "Ontario", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ottawa", "label": "Ottawa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "canadian-confederation", "label": "Canadian Confederation", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "montreal", "label": "Montreal", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "napoleon", "label": "Napoleon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "upper-canada", "label": "Upper Canada", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "canada", "label": "Canada", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1534, "year_label": "1534 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 7", "text": "July 7 – The first known exchange between Europeans and the natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence occurs in what is now New Brunswick.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369558671#July–September", "title": "1534", "revid": 1369558671, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1750, "year_label": "1750 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 25", "text": "April 25 – The Acadian settlement in Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, is burnt by the French army, and the population is forcibly relocated, after France and Great Britain agree that the Missaguash River should be the new boundary between peninsular British Nova Scotia and the mainland remnant of French Acadia (now New Brunswick).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349828876#April–June", "title": "1750", "revid": 1349828876, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1764, "year_label": "1764 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 11", "text": "July 11 – Conditional repatriation of the Acadians in Canada, French colonists who took up arms against the British during the war, is approved by order of King George III on advice of the Privy Council. The Council offers settlement to any Acadians willing to take an oath of allegiance to the British Crown and that those living in New Brunswick are to \"be allowed to settle in Nova Scotia, but that they should be dispersed in small numbers in various localities.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363539304#July–September", "title": "1764", "revid": 1363539304, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1784, "year_label": "1784 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 16", "text": "August 16 – Britain creates the colony of New Brunswick.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370567291#July–September", "title": "1784", "revid": 1370567291, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1784, "year_label": "1784 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 16", "text": "August 16 – In response to Loyalist demands, the Crown creates New Brunswick out of Nova Scotia. New Brunswick was then divided into eight counties.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360224448#Events", "title": "1784 in Canada", "revid": 1360224448, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1785, "year_label": "1785 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "New Brunswick is separated from Nova Scotia", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349955081#Events", "title": "1785 in Canada", "revid": 1349955081, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1785, "year_label": "1785 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The University of New Brunswick is founded in Fredericton, New Brunswick.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370566385#Date_unknown", "title": "1785", "revid": 1370566385, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1786, "year_label": "1786 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland allowed to import goods from the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349955122#Events", "title": "1786 in Canada", "revid": 1349955122, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1792, "year_label": "1792 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Many Black Loyalists in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia migrate to Sierra Leone in West Africa, mainly because the promises of land in Canada were not kept by the British.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360533134#Events", "title": "1792 in Canada", "revid": 1360533134, "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": 1825, "year_label": "1825 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "October 7", "text": "October 7 – The Miramichi Fire, a forest fire, breaks out in New Brunswick (Canada).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341744335#October–December", "title": "1825", "revid": 1341744335, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1842, "year_label": "1842 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 9", "text": "August 9 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty ends the Aroostook War, settling once and for all the Maine–New Brunswick border dispute.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349956843#Events", "title": "1842 in Canada", "revid": 1349956843, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1848, "year_label": "1848 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "First telegraph lines in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349957012#full_date_unknown", "title": "1848 in Canada", "revid": 1349957012, "section": "Events › full date unknown"}}, {"year": 1860, "year_label": "1860 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Chalon head postage stamp issued in New Brunswick", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349957541#Full_date_unknown", "title": "1860 in Canada", "revid": 1349957541, "section": "Events › Full date unknown"}}, {"year": 1862, "year_label": "1862 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Around 40% of the Fair Isle population migrates to New Brunswick.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362254677#Events", "title": "1862 in Scotland", "revid": 1362254677, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1863, "year_label": "1863 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 7", "text": "December 7 — New Brunswick and Nova Scotia: the Chesapeake Affair.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349957625#Events", "title": "1863 in Canada", "revid": 1349957625, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1865, "year_label": "1865 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 7", "text": "March 7 – New Brunswick rejects a Confederation scheme.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349957689#Events", "title": "1865 in Canada", "revid": 1349957689, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1867, "year_label": "1867 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 29", "text": "March 29 – The British North America Act receives royal assent, forming the Dominion of Canada, in an event known as the Confederation. This unites the Province of Canada (Quebec and Ontario), New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia on July 1. Ottawa will become the capital.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365231456#March", "title": "1867", "revid": 1365231456, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1897, "year_label": "1897 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "October 29", "text": "October 29 – Henry Emmerson becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing James Mitchell.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349958562#Events", "title": "1897 in Canada", "revid": 1349958562, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1932, "year_label": "1932 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 18", "text": "August 18–19 – Scottish aviator Jim Mollison becomes the first pilot to make an East-to-West solo transatlantic flight, from Portmarnock, County Dublin, Ireland to RCAF Station Pennfield Ridge, New Brunswick, Canada, in his de Havilland Puss Moth high-wing monoplane The Heart's Content.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370718676#August", "title": "1932", "revid": 1370718676, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1933, "year_label": "1933 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "June 1", "text": "June 1 – Leonard Tilley becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Charles Richards", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366138419#Events", "title": "1933 in Canada", "revid": 1366138419, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1997, "year_label": "1997 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "May 31", "text": "May 31 – The 13-kilometer Confederation Bridge, the world's longest bridge spanning ice-covered waters, opens between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367978156#May", "title": "1997", "revid": 1367978156, "section": "Events › May"}}]}