Louis Riel
1844–1885 · Person
Métis leader, founder of Manitoba, prophet and rebel — hanged for treason in 1885 and mourned ever since as French Canada's martyr and a father of Confederation.
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More from Canada
- 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)
Around 1844
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)