Chronology of the history of Quebec (1791 to 1840)

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This section of the Chronologie of the history of Quebec relates to the events between the adoption of the constitutional Act of 1791 and the adoption of the Act of Union of 1840.

Years 1790

1791 - the constitutional Acte is adopted by the British Parlement the June 10th.
1792 - the first meeting of the Parliament of Low-Canada opens the December 17th. (The elections take place between the 11 and on June 27th.)
1792 - the December 18th, Jean-Antoine Panet is elected president of the legislative Assemblée.
1792 - Opening of the first post office in Montreal the December 20th.
1793 - Debate on the languages with the legislative Parliament of Low-Canada the January 21st.
1793 - the January 27th, the Canadian Jean Basset presents a report to the national Convention French in which he asks the reconquest of Canada by France.
1793 - the France declares the war with the England the February 8th.
1793 - Extension of the first session of the Parliament the May 9th.
1793 - the September 23rd, the governor Guy Carleton request with the legislative Parliament to adopt measures against the seditious foreigners (French and American) and Canadian citizens who threaten the British government in Canada.
1793 - In October, short noise that a French fleet is come from there to take again Canada.
1793 - the second session of the Parliament opens the November 11th.
1793 - the November 26th, the legislative Parliament adopts a law which suspends the Habeas Corpus and enlists practically all the men from 18 to 60 years in the militia.
1795 - Coming into effect of the first tax on land in Low-Canada.
1796 - the first of the cantons of the East, the county of Dunham, is created.
1797 - Robert Prescott becomes General governor of the colonies of British North America the April 27th.
1798 - Beginning of Irish immigration with Canada.

Years 1800

1800 - on February 7th, Amable De Bonne, judge and member of the legislative Parliament, presents a bill aiming at creating the royal Institut.
1803 - Napoleon Bonaparte sells the immense territory of Louisiana in the United States of America.
1805 - Foundation of the newspaper The Quebec Mercury by Thomas Cary, in favor of Tories (conservatives).
1805 - Joseph-Octave Plessis becomes bishop of Quebec.
1806 - Pierre-Stanislas Bédard and François Strainer, members of the Canadian Left, found the newspaper the Canadian .
1807 - Election of Ezekiel Binder at the time of a by-election the April 11th.
1807 - the August 29th, James Henry Craig becomes General governor of the colonies of British North America.
1808 - on February first, the legislative Parliament calls into question the oath of allegiance made by Ezekiel Hart. (It is of Jewish faith).
1808 - the legislative Parliament votes the expulsion of Ezekiel Hart the February 20th.
1808 - Louis-Joseph Papineau and Denis-Benjamin Viger is elected for the first time the April 27th. They unite with the Canadian Parti.
1808 - the June 14th, the owners of the newspaper the Canadian as their collaborator are dislocated their functions in the government.
1809 - the April 18th, the legislative Parliament adopts a resolution on the ineligibility of the judges in the legislative Parliament.
1809 - the governor Craig dissolves the Parliament the May 15th.
1809 - Elections the November 24th.

Years 1810

1810 - the February 13rd, the legislative Parliament votes three addresses. First is intended to the king, a second with the House of Lords and a last with the House of Commons. The legislative Parliament asserts the control of the civil list.
1810 - the February 23rd, the legislative Parliament votes the expulsion of the judge Amable De Bonne.
1810 - the March 10th, Jonathan Sewell and Amable De Bonne found the newspaper the True Canadian who gives an opinion to defend the policies of the government.
1810 - the March 17th, the governor James Craig makes stop the press of the newspaper the Canadian and puts the owners in prison for sedition.
1810 - on May first, the governor recommends to the king to link the High-Canada with the Low-Canada.
1810 - August, construction of the Way Craig.
1811 - Pierre-Stanislas Bédard leaves prison the April 4th, after being held without lawsuit during two years, nine months and 21 days.
1811 - the May 31st, George Prevost becomes governor of the Low-Canada.
1811 - Foundation of the newspaper The Montreal Herald by William Grey.
1812 - War of 1812: Second American invasion of the Canada.
1813 - the October 26th, Battle of Châteauguay. American is pushed back.
1815 - the January 21st, Louis-Joseph Papineau is elected president of the legislative Parliament.
1818 - the border between the British North America and the the United States is established with the parallel 49e.

Years 1820

1820 - a project of union is again discussed between London and the government of the Low-Canada.
1821 - the Université McGill obtains its royal charter.
1822 - Creation in Montreal of the Board off Trade .
1822 - British merchants and bureaucrats of Low-Canada go to the British Parliament to submit a proposal for a union of both Canada.
1823 - the May 10th, Louis-Joseph Papineau and John Neilson are in London with a petition of 60 000 signatures against the project of union.
1825 - Opening of the Channel of Lachine to Montreal.
1826 - Ludger Duvernay, Auguste-Norbert Morin, and Jacques Viger founds the newspaper Minerve .
1827 - the Canadian Parti becomes the patriotic Parti .
1827 - the patriotic Parti sends a delegation of three members of the Parliament -- John Neilson, Denis-Benjamin Viger and Augustin Cuvillier -- in London with a petition of 87 000 names and a series of resolutions adopted by the legislative Parliament.
1828 - London names James Kempt governor to replace George Ramsay.
1828 - the December 12th, Daniel Tracey founds the newspaper The Irish Vindicator and Canada General Advertiser , which becomes The Montreal Vindicator shortly after.
1829 - the Université McGill starts the construction of its medical college.

Years 1830

1830 - Lord Matthew Aylmer is named governor.
1831 - To the current of the summer, Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Of the democracy in America , spend two weeks to the Low-Canada. Its notes on the social conditions and policies of the Canadians have a great historical value today.
1831 - Ludger Duvernay and Daniel Tracey is stopped for their opinions and is shown sedition.
1832 - Daniel Tracey spends 35 days in prison to have written a leading article denouncing the intrigues of the British colonial government.
1832 - At the time of a by-election in Montreal the May 21st, British soldiers open fire on a crowd and kill three civilians.
1832 - a first epidemic of Choléra kills 6.000 people.
1832 - the patriotic Parti adopts a law granting the political and civil equality complete to the members of the Jewish minority of the Low-Canada.
1833 - Foundation of the Club of the patriotic women .
1833 - the British Parliament adopts the Slavery Abolition Act (Act abolishing slavery).
1834 - Foundation by the Canadians of the Company Saint-Jean-Baptist the June 24th.
1834 - Foundation by the loyal supporters of the Quebec Constitutional Association.
1834 - the patriotic Parti gains the elections with a majority of approximately 95 % of the recorded votes. (I.e. 77 of the 88 seats of the legislative Parliament and 483 739 votes against 28 278).
1834 - the legislative Parliament adopts the Quatre-vingt-douze resolutions, a document which compiles all the objections of the Canadians since the introduction of parliamentarism into the colony in 1791.
1835 - Foundation by the loyal supporters of the Montreal Constitutional Association in January.
1835 - Foundation of the patriotic Union by members of the patriotic Left.
1835 - the Canadians found their first bank, the Bank of the People . The institution will crumble after the disorders of 1837-38.
1836 - Foundation of the Doric Club, the reincarnation of the British Files Corp.
1836 - a law establishing of the teacher training schools is adopted by the legislative Parliament. This law would have created the first public schools and laymen of Low-Canada.
1836 - the first train runs between the Meadow and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, a bearing of 23 km on the road of New York by the lake Champlain.
1837 - the March 6th, the Résolutions Russell arrive from London. All the requests of the patriots are rejected.
1837 - Establishment of the Central committee and permanent in April.
1837 - Created in August, the Société of Wire of Freedom holds its first popular assembly the September 5th.
1837 - Several Popular Assemblies is held through the country between May and November.
1837 - the Doric Club attacks Wire of freedom the November 6th and takes this occasion to ransack the offices of Montreal Vindicator and vandaliser the house of Papineau.
1837 - the November 8th, the general John Colborne starts to recruit volunteers of militia which it places under the command of the Dyer lieutenant-colonel.
1837 - the November 16th, Lord Gosford orders the arrest of 26 patriotic leaders for high treason.
1837 - Battle of Saint-Denis the November 23rd.
1837 - Battle of Saint-Charles the November 25th.
1837 - the patriots take the control of Saint-Eustace the November 30th.
1837 - Proclamation of the martial law in the district of Montreal the December 5th.
1837 - 80 patriots are forced to withdraw in Moore' S Corner close to the American border the December 6th.
1837 - the December 13rd, the general John Colborne leaves Montreal for Saint-Eustace with the head of 1.300 men.
1837 - Battle of Saint-Eustace the December 14th.
1837 - the British troops burn the village of Saint-Benoît.
1838 - the February 26th, Robert Nelson, general of the patriots, gathers between 600 and 700 volunteers, the Frères Hunters and of the American sympatisants, and tries to invade Canada.
1838 - Robert Nelson proclaims the independence of the Low-Canada to Week' S House the February 28th. See the Declaration of independence of Low-Canada.
1838 - the constitutional Act is suspended the March 27th. A special council is formed by London.
1838 - the envoy of the British government, John George Lambton, Lord Durham, arrives at Quebec the May 27th.
1838 - the June 28th, the amnesty is proclaimed for all the prisoners, except 8 people exiled with the Bermuda.
1838 - the Frères hunters give an opinion with Beauharnois, Holy-Martine and Saint-Mathias the November 3rd.
1838 - New proclamation of the martial law the November 4th.
1838 - Battle of Lacolle the November 7th.
1838 - Battle of Odelltown the November 9th. End of the Rebellions of 1837-38.
1838 - Setting-up of the martial court charged to judge 108 men.
1839 - Publication of the " Report/ratio Durham " the February 11th.
1839 - Hanging of 12 patriots to the prison of the Foot-of-current the February 15th.
1839 - Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham, becomes governor of Canada to replace Lord Durham.

Years 1840

1840 - the Acte of Union receives the royal approval the July 23rd.

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