Montreal: Timeline

1604   The town of Montreal is founded.

1639   Montreal first settled.

1642   Sieur de Maisonneuve founds the Ville Marie de Montréal Montreal

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1734   In Montreal in New France New France

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, a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, was tortured Torture

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 then hanged Hanging

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 by the French France

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 authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.

1765   Fire destroys one quarter of town of Montreal, Quebec Quebec

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1849   The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.

1917   In Montreal, Canada Canada

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, the National Hockey Association breaks up (on November 26 it was replaced with the National Hockey League National Hockey League

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1955   The Richard Riot occurs in Montreal.

1962   Drilling for the new Montreal, Quebec Quebec

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 subway METRO

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 commences.

1963   Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval International Airport near Montreal, killing all 118 on board (for many years this was the worst air disaster in Canada Canada

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's history).

1966   The city of Montreal inaugurates its metro METRO

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 system (see Montreal Metro).

1967   Montreal hosts Expo '67; it is to coincide with the centennial of Canadian Confederation Canadian Confederation

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1967   During an official state visit to Canada Canada

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, French France

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 President Charles de Gaulle Charles de Gaulle

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 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.

1976   The 1976 Summer Olympics begin in Montreal, Canada Canada

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1989   The École Polytechnique Massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.

2005   The United Nations Climate Change Conference opens in Montreal, Quebec Quebec

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. The conference lasts until December 9, and features a speech by former President Bill Clinton Bill Clinton

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 that the George W. Bush George W. Bush

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