Quiet Revolution
1960–1970 · Event
Quebec secularises in a decade — the Church's grip on schools and hospitals broken, hydro nationalised, 'maîtres chez nous' — and separatism is born from the confidence.
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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)
Around 1960
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- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Korean War (1950)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Six-Day War (1967)
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- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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