Constitution patriated with the Charter
1982 · Event
The Queen signs Canada's constitution home on a rainy Ottawa day, with a Charter of Rights that remakes Canadian law — and Quebec's signature missing, then and since.
On these timelines: Canada, Master, British Empire
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)
- John Cabot reaches North America (1497)
- Canadian Pacific Railway built (1881)
- Hudson's Bay Company chartered (1670)
Around 1982
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)