{"slug": "nova-scotia", "label": "Nova Scotia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1952", "qid": "Q1952", "description": "province of Canada", "entries": 60, "years": 47, "span": [1605, 1996], "span_label": ["1605 CE", "1996 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 16}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 14}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 10}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 7}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 5}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 2}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 2}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "new-brunswick", "label": "New Brunswick", "shared": 9}, {"slug": "acadians", "label": "Acadians", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "halifax-nova-scotia", "label": "Halifax, Nova Scotia", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "louisbourg", "label": "Louisbourg", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "boston", "label": "Boston", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "new-england", "label": "New England", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "acadia", "label": "Acadia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "mi-kmaq", "label": "Mi'kmaq", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "quebec", "label": "Quebec", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sierra-leone", "label": "Sierra Leone", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "liverpool", "label": "Liverpool", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "france", "label": "France", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"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": 1664, "year_label": "1664 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "March 12", "text": "March 12 – King Charles II of England makes royal charter for territory in North America that leases to his brother, James, Duke of York, a patent for a large amount of land in what is now the northeastern United States. According to the Charter, James receives \"all that part of the mayne land of New England\" between \"New Scotland in America\" and the river of Kenebeque\", along with \"Mattowacks or Long Island\" and \"Martins Vineyard and Nantukes\", and the lands between the \"Connecticutte and Hudsons rivers\" and the lands \"from the west side of \"Connecticutte to the east side De la Warre Bay\". The lease, which includes the territory claimed by the Dutch Republic as New Netherland is for most of the U.S. state of Maine and parts of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372648278#January–March", "title": "1664", "revid": 1372648278, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1690, "year_label": "1690 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 16", "text": "May 16 – The Battle of Port Royal takes place in Nova Scotia after an invasion by a militia of 446 soldiers and 226 sailors from the Massachusetts Bay Colony on seven warships. With only 90 French colonial soldiers to defend Port-Royal, Acadian Governor Louis-Alexandre des Friches de Menneval surrenders before the end of the day.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369486553#April–June", "title": "1690", "revid": 1369486553, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1697, "year_label": "1697 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 20", "text": "20 September – The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France and the Grand Alliance to end both the Nine Years' War and King William's War. The conflict having been inconclusive, the treaty is proposed because the combatants have exhausted their national treasuries. Louis XIV recognises William III as King of England and Scotland, and both sides return territories they have taken in battle. In North America, the treaty returns Port Royal (Nova Scotia) to France. In practice, the treaty is little more than a truce; it does not resolve any of the fundamental colonial problems, and the peace lasts only five years", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360551346#Events", "title": "1697 in France", "revid": 1360551346, "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": 1710, "year_label": "1710 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 5", "text": "October 5 – October 13 - British forces under Francis Nicholson conduct the successful Siege of Port Royal against a French Acadian garrison and the Wabanaki Confederacy at the Acadian capital, Port Royal, marking the start of British control of what became Nova Scotia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358049105#October–December", "title": "1710", "revid": 1358049105, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1710, "year_label": "1710 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 13", "text": "October 13 – Queen Anne's War – Siege of Port Royal: The French surrender, giving the British permanent possession of Nova Scotia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358049105#October–December", "title": "1710", "revid": 1358049105, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1711, "year_label": "1711 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 7", "text": "October 7 – HMS Feversham is wrecked on Scaterie Island, Nova Scotia with the loss of 102 lives.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364260988#October–December", "title": "1711", "revid": 1364260988, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"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": 1725, "year_label": "1725 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "August 27", "text": "August 27 – At least 216 people die in the sinking of the Chameau, a ship of the French Navy, after the vessel is driven by a storm into rocks off of the coast of Nova Scotia. Reportedly, 180 bodies wash ashore near Louisbourg. The ship's cargo, which included a fortune in gold and silver coins, is discovered 240 years later in 1965.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361335962#July–September", "title": "1725", "revid": 1361335962, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1725, "year_label": "1725 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 15", "text": "December 15 – A treaty is signed by chiefs of four member tribes of the Wabanaki Confederacy (the Abenaki, Pequawket, Mi'kmaq, Maliseet) and representatives of three British provinces in North America (Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire and Nova Scotia) and their allies, the Mohawk nation, bringing an end to Dummer's War, named for acting Massachusetts Bay Governor William Dummer.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361335962#October–December", "title": "1725", "revid": 1361335962, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1737, "year_label": "1737 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 17", "text": "July 17 – The British ship Catherine founders in a storm off of Nova Scotia's Cape Sable Island during its voyage from Ireland to Boston, killing 98 of the 201 people on board.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367176390#July–September", "title": "1737", "revid": 1367176390, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1744, "year_label": "1744 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The third French and Indian War, known as King George's War, breaks out at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370823870#Date_unknown", "title": "1744", "revid": 1370823870, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1745, "year_label": "1745 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 4", "text": "April 4 (March 24, old style) – Under the command of British Army General William Pepperrell, the first 4,300 American colonists in the New England Army depart Boston to liberate the French North American colony of Nova Scotia. The flotilla of 80 military transports and 18 armed escorts is scattered by a storm, but the first troops disembark at Canso, Nova Scotia, on April 15 and begin training while waiting for the arrival of the Royal Navy squadron commanded by Admiral Peter Warren.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353016128#April–June", "title": "1745", "revid": 1353016128, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1746, "year_label": "1746 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Typhoid fever epidemic breaks out among the Micmac of Nova Scotia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349953619#Events", "title": "1746 in Canada", "revid": 1349953619, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1746, "year_label": "1746 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 30", "text": "August 30: Duc d'Anville Expedition, led by a French aristocrat, arrives at Chebucto (now Halifax Harbour) with 13,000 men in 70 ships. His orders from the King of France: Expel the British from Nova Scotia, then burn Boston and sack New England. Disease and dissension within the command structure defeats d'Anville's force, which despite its formidable strength has no discernible effect on the course of events in North America.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349953619#Events", "title": "1746 in Canada", "revid": 1349953619, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1749, "year_label": "1749 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "Halifax, capital of Nova Scotia, is founded by British General Edward Cornwallis to counter French presence at Louisbourg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349953711#Events", "title": "1749 in Canada", "revid": 1349953711, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1749, "year_label": "1749 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 9", "text": "July 9 – The British naval fort at Halifax is founded on mainland Nova Scotia as a defense against the New France Fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, less than 100 mi away.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360727483#July–September", "title": "1749", "revid": 1360727483, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1749, "year_label": "1749 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 9", "text": "9 July – British settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia is founded.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332940852#Events", "title": "1749 in Great Britain", "revid": 1332940852, "section": "Events"}}, {"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": 1750, "year_label": "1750 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 11", "text": "July 11 – Halifax, Nova Scotia is almost completely destroyed by fire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349828876#July–September", "title": "1750", "revid": 1349828876, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1752, "year_label": "1752 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 8", "text": "November 8 – British Governor Hopson of Nova Scotia and French Governor General of New France, the Marquis Duquesne, agree to a free exchange of deserters from each other's armies in Canada, with the understanding that neither side will execute a deserter once returned.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362993688#October–December", "title": "1752", "revid": 1362993688, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1752, "year_label": "1752 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "November 22", "text": "November 22 – \"Father Le Loutre's War\", the war between the British Canadian colonists of Nova Scotia and the indigenous Mi'kmaq (Micmac) tribe halts temporarily when a peace treaty is signed between the warring parties at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. Governor Hopson, accompanied by former Governor Cornwallis, signs on behalf of the British and Chief Kopit (Jean-Baptiste Cope), the Sakamaw of the Mi'kmaq, signs on behalf of his people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362993688#October–December", "title": "1752", "revid": 1362993688, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1754, "year_label": "1754 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 10", "text": "July 10 – The Albany Plan of Union is given official approval by the delegates from New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, with Connecticut opposing. The plan approved at the meeting in Albany, New York is based on Benjamin Franklin's suggestions of \"a general union of the British colonies on the continent\" for a common defense policy. As amended at the assembly, the proposed union calls for the British Parliament to approve the arrangement, which would encompass all of the British North American colonies except for Georgia and Nova Scotia. The plan, to be considered by the individual colonies for ratification, provides for an inter-colonial legislature (the Grand Council) composed of between two and seven representatives for each colony, depending on population. It also provides for a \"President General\" who can veto Grand Council legislation, a common defense budget with colonies contributing proportionately to their representation, and an inter-colonial army whose officers would be selected by the Grand Council.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360193273#July–September", "title": "1754", "revid": 1360193273, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1755, "year_label": "1755 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 3", "text": "May 3 – France dispatches 3,600 troops to protect its Canadian colonies in Quebec from a British invasion, dispatching 2,400 to Quebec city and 1,200 to Louisbourg in Nova Scotia, unaware that a squadron of 11 fully armed warships from Britain's Royal Navy had sailed toward Canada on April 27.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360194188#April–June", "title": "1755", "revid": 1360194188, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1755, "year_label": "1755 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 12", "text": "October 12 – Having completed the Expulsion of the Acadians from St. John's Island (now Prince Edward Island), the British colonial Governor of Nova Scotia, Charles Lawrence, issues a proclamation that his office will receive proposals from English settlers \"for the peopling and cultivating as well of the lands vacated by the French, as every other part of this valuable province.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360194188#October–December", "title": "1755", "revid": 1360194188, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1760, "year_label": "1760 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 4", "text": "June 4 – Expulsion of the Acadians: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia taken from the Acadians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358844484#April–June", "title": "1760", "revid": 1358844484, "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": 1769, "year_label": "1769 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Prince Edward Island becomes a separate colony from Nova Scotia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349954514#Events", "title": "1769 in Canada", "revid": 1349954514, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1771, "year_label": "1771 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Lieutenant Governor Michael Francklin of Nova Scotia travels to northern England to seek immigrants to replace those displaced by the Acadian expulsion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349954578#Events", "title": "1771 in Canada", "revid": 1349954578, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1773, "year_label": "1773 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Mid-July – the emigrant ship Hector sets out from Scotland carrying emigrants mainly escaping the Highland Clearances around Loch Broom for Pictou, Nova Scotia, where they arrive on 15 September.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362254179#Events", "title": "1773 in Scotland", "revid": 1362254179, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1775, "year_label": "1775 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "August 29", "text": "August 29 – September 12 – The Independence Hurricane from South Carolina to Nova Scotia kills 4,170, mostly fishermen and sailors.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365589248#July–December", "title": "1775", "revid": 1365589248, "section": "Events › July–December"}}, {"year": 1782, "year_label": "1782 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 1", "text": "July 1 – American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1278586875#July–September", "title": "1782 in the United States", "revid": 1278586875, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1783, "year_label": "1783 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "In Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Rose Fortune becomes Canada's first policewoman.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349955008#Events", "title": "1783 in Canada", "revid": 1349955008, "section": "Events"}}, {"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": 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": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Daniel McGinnis discovers the supposed Money Pit on Oak Island, Nova Scotia. (according to one story)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352627752#Undated", "title": "1795", "revid": 1352627752, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1796, "year_label": "1796 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "About 600 Jamaican Maroons are deported from Jamaica to Nova Scotia. They helped rebuild the Halifax Citadel. In 1800, most petition to be sent to Sierra Leone, Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349955478#Events", "title": "1796 in Canada", "revid": 1349955478, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1796, "year_label": "1796 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 10", "text": "July 10 – Joseph Fairbanks, merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia. 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The British shot is said to have bounced off Constitutions sides, earning her the nickname \"Old Ironsides\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364673712#July–September", "title": "1812", "revid": 1364673712, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1812, "year_label": "1812 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 19", "text": "19 August – War of 1812: USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1306548855#Events", "title": "1812 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1306548855, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1817, "year_label": "1817 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Nova Scotia population estimated at 78,345.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349956094#Full_date_unknown", "title": "1817 in Canada", "revid": 1349956094, "section": "Events › Full date unknown"}}, {"year": 1819, "year_label": "1819 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Cape Breton Island is annexed to Nova Scotia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349956157#Events", "title": "1819 in Canada", "revid": 1349956157, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1828, "year_label": "1828 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Inhabitants of the island of Muck emigrate to Nova Scotia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362254486#Events", "title": "1828 in Scotland", "revid": 1362254486, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1840, "year_label": "1840 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "July 4", "text": "4 July – the Cunard Line's 700-ton wooden paddle steamer RMS Britannia, launched by Robert Duncan & Company at Greenock on 5 February, departs from Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the first steam transatlantic passenger mail service. 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