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1472 Possible discovery of Bacalao (possibly Newfoundland, North America) by Joćo Vaz Corte-Real.
1473 Possible discovery of Bacalao (possibly Newfoundland, North America) by Didrik Pining and Joćo Vaz Corte-Real
1502 "Newfoundland" gets its name from a letter.
1511 Juan de Agramonte sailor from Spain
thought to have possibly travelled to Newfoundland.
1527 First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1534 Jacques Cartier
explores Newfoundland while searching for the Northwest Passage
.
1578 Martin Frobisher
held the first celebration of Thanksgiving
by Europeans in North America
at Newfoundland by the Frobisher Expedition.
1579 Sir Francis Drake, during his circumnavigation of the world, lands in what is now California
, which he claims for Queen Elizabeth I
. With an English
claim here and in Newfoundland, it becomes the basis for English colonial charters which will claim all land from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from "sea to sea." Drake's claim is called "Nova Albion" (meaning, ''New England''), and subsequent maps will show all lands north of New Spain and New Mexico under this name.
1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert, in what is now the city of St John's, Newfoundland, claims the island of Newfoundland on behalf of England
.
1610 John Guy sets sail from Bristol
with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
1816 Fire nearly destroyed the city of St. John's, Newfoundland.
1834 Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats Governor of Newfoundland, Canada
. (b. 1757)
1901 Guglielmo Marconi
receives the first trans-Atlantic
radio
signal in Newfoundland, Canada
; it is Morse code for the letter "S."
1907 New Zealand
and Newfoundland become a dominion.
1919 May 16 US Navy
Naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read departs Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon
via the Azores
on the first transatlantic flight
1929 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean
, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake
centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami
that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula area, killing 28. As of 1997, it is Canada
's most lethal earthquake.
1931 The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, which establishes a status of legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State
, Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.
1959 Blizzard
causes a massive power outage in Newfoundland.
1982 The oil platform ''Ocean Ranger'' sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 rig workers.
1985 Arrow Air Flight 1285, a DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing 256, 248 of whom were U.S.
servicemen returning to Fort Campbell, Kentucky from overseeing a peacekeeping force in Sinai
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