{"slug": "quebec-city", "label": "Quebec City", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2145", "qid": "Q2145", "description": "capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada", "entries": 26, "years": 21, "span": [1608, 2017], "span_label": ["1608 CE", "2017 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 3}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Quebec City, Quebec"], "related": [{"slug": "montreal", "label": "Montreal", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "st-lawrence-river", "label": "St. Lawrence River", "shared": 3}, {"slug": 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1615, "year_label": "1615 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 2", "text": "June 2 – The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365922608#April–June", "title": "1615", "revid": 1365922608, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1620, "year_label": "1620 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 3", "text": "June 3 – The oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, is begun at Quebec City in modern-day Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363705489#April–June", "title": "1620", "revid": 1363705489, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1703, "year_label": "1703 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Between 1702 and 1703 – An epidemic of smallpox breaks out in Quebec, in which 2,000-3,000 people die (300-400 in Quebec City).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369923832#Date_unknown", "title": "1703", "revid": 1369923832, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1711, "year_label": "1711 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 22", "text": "August 22 – The Quebec Expedition, a British attempt to attack Quebec as part of Queen Anne's War, fails when 8 of its ships are wrecked in the Saint Lawrence River and 890 people, mostly soldiers, drown.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364260988#July–September", "title": "1711", "revid": 1364260988, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1711, "year_label": "1711 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 22", "text": "22 August – the Quebec Expedition, a British attempt to attack the city of Quebec as part of Queen Anne's War, fails when 8 of its ships are wrecked in the Saint Lawrence River and 850 soldiers drown, one of the worst disasters in British history up to this date.", 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"1759 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 13", "text": "13 September – Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British forces led by James Wolfe defeat the French commanded by the Marquis de Montcalm (although both commanders are fatally wounded), leading to the capitulation of Quebec City", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353738584#Events", "title": "1759 in France", "revid": 1353738584, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1759, "year_label": "1759 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 13", "text": "13 September – Battle of the Plains of Abraham (Seven Years' War): British forces, including the 78th Fraser Highlanders, defeat those of the French to take Quebec City.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362254138#Events", "title": "1759 in Scotland", "revid": 1362254138, "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": 1760, "year_label": "1760 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 26", "text": "April 26 – Marshal Lévis and his troops land at Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, adjacent to Quebec City, and prepares to lay siege to the British occupying force.", "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": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 18", "text": "April 18 – The folk hero Marie-Josephte Corriveau was sentenced to death by a British court martial for murdering her second husband, and was hanged in Quebec City.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349954264#Events", "title": "1763 in Canada", "revid": 1349954264, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1763, "year_label": "1763 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "December 23", "text": "December 23 – John Kinzie, Fur trader from Quebec City who was responsible for the \"first murder in Chicago\" (d. June 6, 1828)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349954264#Births", "title": "1763 in Canada", "revid": 1349954264, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1764, "year_label": "1764 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 21", "text": "June 21 – The English-language Quebec Gazette is established in Quebec City, Canada (the oldest surviving newspaper in North America).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363539304#January–June", "title": "1764", "revid": 1363539304, "section": "Events › January–June"}}, {"year": 1775, "year_label": "1775 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 31", "text": "December 31 – At the Battle of Quebec, British forces repulsed an attack by the Continental Army to capture Quebec City and enlist French Canadian support.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349954703#Events", "title": "1775 in Canada", "revid": 1349954703, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1788, "year_label": "1788 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 24", "text": "July 24 – Governor General Lord Dorchester, by proclamation issued from the Chateau St. Louis in Quebec City, divides the British Province of Quebec into five Districts, namely: Gaspé, Nassau, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, and Hesse.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357260814#July–September", "title": "1788", "revid": 1357260814, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1809, "year_label": "1809 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "November 3", "text": "November 3: John Molson's steamboat, PS Accommodation, starts for Quebec City. It is 85 ft overall, has a 6 hp engine, and makes the distance in 36 hours, but stops at night and reaches Quebec on November 6. The Accommodation is the second steamboat in America, and probably the world.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349955864#Events", "title": "1809 in Canada", "revid": 1349955864, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1824, "year_label": "1824 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 19", "text": "19 April – brigantine Helen of Dundee, bound for Quebec, founders on what becomes known as Helen's Reef off Rockall with fatalities.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362254465#Events", "title": "1824 in Scotland", "revid": 1362254465, "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": 1907, "year_label": "1907 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "August 24", "text": "August 24 – Part of the under-construction Quebec Bridge collapses in Quebec City killing 75 construction workers and injuring 11.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349958842#Events", "title": "1907 in Canada", "revid": 1349958842, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1910, "year_label": "1910 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 31", "text": "July 31 – British murderer Dr. Crippen is caught in Quebec City", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357372799#Events", "title": "1910 in Canada", "revid": 1357372799, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1939, "year_label": "1939 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 17", "text": "May 17 – King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom arrive in Quebec City, to begin the first-ever tour of Canada by Canada's monarch.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372426050#May", "title": "1939", "revid": 1372426050, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 14", "text": "August 14 – The Quadrant Conference begins in Quebec City; Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King meets with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373526844#August", "title": "1943", "revid": 1373526844, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1945, "year_label": "1945 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "October 16", "text": "October 16 – The Food and Agriculture Organization is established at a meeting in Quebec City as a specialized agency of the United Nations.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371513862#October", "title": "1945", "revid": 1371513862, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 2017, "year_label": "2017 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 29", "text": "January 29 – A gunman opens fire at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, killing 6 and injuring 19 others.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371948773#January", "title": "2017", "revid": 1371948773, "section": "Events › January"}}]}