Durham Report
1839 · Event
Lord Durham prescribes union and responsible government — self-rule as the cure for rebellion, the template for the settler empire — while dismissing French Canada as 'a people with no history'.
On these timelines: Canada, Master, British Empire
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- Canadian Confederation (1867)
- Battle of the Plains of Abraham (1759)
- Champlain founds Quebec (1608)
- New France (1608)
- Cartier claims Canada for France (1534)
- Constitution patriated with the Charter (1982)
- John Cabot reaches North America (1497)
- Hudson's Bay Company chartered (1670)
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- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)
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