Timeline of Quebec history (1791–1840)
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1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Quebec at the Ottawa River, creating Upper Canada (now Ontario) and Lower Canada (now Quebec).
1792 - The first elections are held in Lower Canada.
1803 - Sale of Louisiana to the United States by France.
1806 - Pierre Bédard and François Blanchet found the newspaper Le Canadien.
1810 - The governor of Lower Canada, James Craig, stops the press of Le Canadian and put its owners on trial for sedition.
1808 - Louis-Joseph Papineau and Denis-Benjamin Viger are elected for the first time. They join the Parti Canadien.
1812 - Second American invasion of Canada.
1815 - On January 21, Louis-Joseph Papineau is elected speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
1822 - Lower Canadian British merchants and bureaucrats petition for the Union of Upper and Lower Canada into a single colony before the British Parliament in London.
1823 - With the accord of the Legislative Assembly and even the non-elected Legislative Council, Louis-Joseph Papineau and John Neilson are sent to London by the Parti Canadien to bring a petition of 60,000 signatures against the Union project.
1826 - Ludger Duvernay, Auguste-Norbert Morin, and Jacques Viger found the newspaper La Minerve.
1827 - The Parti Canadien becomes the Parti Patriote.
1828 - Daniel Tracey founds the newspaper The Vindicator.
1829 - Foundation of McGill University.
1831 - During the summer, Alexis de Tocqueville, political thinker and author of Democracy in America, spends two weeks in Lower Canada. His notes on the social and political situation of the Canadiens are of great historical and documentary value today.
1831 - Ludger Duvernay and Daniel Tracey are arrested for their opinions, charged with sedition.
1832 - Daniel Tracey spends 35 days in prison in January for writing an editorial attacking the non-elected bureaucrats of the colonial government.
1832 - During a partial election in Montreal on May 21, British soldiers open fire on the crowd and kill three supporters of the Parti Patriote.
1832 - A first cholera epidemic kills 6000 people.
1832 - The Parti Patriote votes a law giving full political rights to the Jewish minority of Lower Canada, a first in the British Empire and some 27 years before Great Britain itself.
1833 - The British Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act giving all slaves in the British Empire their freedom.
1834 - Foundation of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste on June 24.
1834 - The Parti Patriote is elected with a strong majority of about 95% of the registered vote. That is 77 of 88 seats in the Legislative Assembly and 483 739 votes against 28 278.
1834 - The Legislative Assembly presents the Ninety-Two Resolutions, a document requesting democratic reforms in the colonies.
1835 - The Canadiens found their first Bank La Banque du Peuple. The institution will collapse with the war.
1836 - Foundation of the Doric Club, the reincarnation of the illegal British Rifle Corp.
1836 - Laws establishing the Écoles normales of the country. They would have been the first secular, public, and free schools of Lower Canada.
1837 - On March 6, the Ten Russell's Resolutions arrive in Lower Canada, 3 years after the Ninety-Two Resolutions.
1837 - Founded in August, the Société des Fils de la Liberté holds its first public assembly on September 5.
1837 - Various Assemblées populaires are held throughout Lower Canada between May and November.
1837 - The Doric club attacks the Fils de la liberté on November 6, 1837 and take this occasion to destroy the office of the Vindicator and vandalize the house of Papineau, who will be wanted for treason 10 days later.
1837 - On November 16, Lord Gosford orders the arrest of the patriot leaders, including Papineau, O'Callaghan, Brown, and Ouimet.
1838 - February 26, Robert Nelson, General of the Patriotes, gathers between 600 and 700 volunteers (the Frères Chasseurs and American sympathisers) and try to invade Lower Canada.
1839 - The Patriotes Rebellion is put down and the report of Lord Durham, sent to investigate the uprising, recommends the union of the Canadas with the expressed purpose of assimilating the French-speaking Canadians. He also recommends the creation of a government responsible to the legislative assembly.
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