Creation of Nunavut
1999 · Event
The map changes for the first time in fifty years: an Inuit-majority territory across a fifth of Canada, born of the largest Indigenous land claim ever settled.
On these timelines: Canada, Master, Pre-Columbian Americas
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 1999
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Gulf War (1990)
- War on Terror (2001)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- September 11 attacks (2001)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)