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This section of theTimeline of Quebec history concerns the events inBritish North America relating to what is the present day province ofQuebec, Canada between the time of theConstitutional Act of 1791 and theAct of Union 1840.

• 1790 – TheDechristianisation of France during the French Revolution marks the beginning of a sharp tightening of the powers and influence of theRoman Catholic Church in Quebec that would last until 1960.
• 1791 - TheConstitutional Act is enacted by theBritish Parliament on June 10.
• 1792 - The first elections ofLower Canada are held on June 11.
• 1792 - The first session of theParliament of Lower Canada opens on December 17.
• 1792 - On December 18,Jean-Antoine Panet is elected Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
• 1792 - Opening of the first post office in Montreal on December 20.
• 1793 -Language debate at theLegislative Assembly of Quebec on January 21.
• 1793 - On January 27,Lower Canada-born Jean Basset presents a memoir to theNational Convention inRevolutionaryFrance in which he pleads for a reconquest of Canada.
• 1793 -France declares war onEngland on February 8.
• 1793 - Prorogation of the first session of the Parliament on May 9.
• 1793 - On September 23, governorDorchester demands that the Assembly punishes foreigners threatening the British government in Canada or any seditious citizen.
• 1793 - In October, there are rumours that a French fleet is coming to retake Canada.
• 1793 - The second session of the Parliament opens on November 11.
• 1795 - Introduction of the first property tax in Lower Canada.
• 1796 - The first county of theEastern Townships, Dunham, is created.
• 1797 -Robert Prescott becomes Governor General on April 27.
• 1798 - Beginning ofIrish immigration to Canada.

• 1800 - Member of Parliament and JudgePierre-Amable de Bonne presents a draft bill to create theRoyal Institute on February 7.
• 1803 -Napoleon sells theLouisiana Territory to the United States. (See theLouisiana Purchase).
• 1804 - The taking down of Montreal's fortifications begin and last until 1809.
• 1804 - The legislative assembly ofLower Canada votes to abolishslavery.
• 1805 - Foundation ofThe Quebec Mercury (newspaper) byThomas Cary, supporter of the British Tories.
• 1805 -Joseph-Octave Plessis becomes Bishop of Quebec.
• 1806 -Pierre-Stanislas Bédard andFrançois Blanchet, members of theParti Canadien, found the newspaperLe Canadien.
• 1807 - Election ofEzekiel Hart inTrois-Rivières during aby-election on April 11.
• 1807 - On August 29,James Henry Craig becomes governor of the British American colonies.
• 1808 - On February 1, theLegislative Assembly of Quebec criticizes the swearing-in ofEzekiel Hart because he is aJew.
• 1808 - The Legislative Assembly votes the expulsion ofEzekiel Hart on February 20.
• 1808 -Louis-Joseph Papineau andDenis-Benjamin Viger are elected for the first time on April 27. They join theParti Canadien.
• 1808 - On June 14, the owners of the newspaperLe Canadien were demoted from their functions in the government.
• 1809 - On April 18, the Legislative Assembly votes a resolution on the ineligibility of judges during elections.
• 1809 - GovernorCraig dissolves the Parliament on May 15.
• 1809 - Elections on November 24.

• 1810 - On February 13, the Legislative Assembly passes three addresses: one for the King, one for the House of Lords and one for the House of Commons to request control over the budget.
• 1810 - On February 23, theLegislative Assembly of Quebec votes to expel the Member of Parliament and JudgePierre-Amable de Bonne.
• 1810 - On March 10,Jonathan Sewell andPierre-Amable de Bonne found the newspaperLe Vrai Canadien which defends the policies of the government.
• 1810 - On March 17, GovernorJames Craig stops the press ofLe Canadien and arrests its owners on charges oftreasonous writings .
• 1810 - On May 1, GovernorCraig recommends to theBritish Parliament to uniteUpper andLower Canada.
• 1810 - On September 10,New Spain (México) declares its Independence fromSpain.
• 1811 -Pierre-Stanislas Bédard is released from prison in March after having been held for twelve months pending trial.
• 1811 - On May 31,George Prevost becomes governor ofLower Canada.
• 1811 – TheParti Canadien choosesJames Stuart to succeedPierre-Stanislas Bédard as party leader.
• 1811 - Founding of the newspaper theMontreal Herald by William Grey.
• 1812 -War of 1812: Second American invasion ofCanada.
• 1815 - On January 21,Louis-Joseph Papineau is elected speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
• 1817 - Founding of theBank of Montreal.
• 1818 - The frontier betweenBritish North America and theUnited States is established at the 49th northern parallel.

• 1820 - A Union project is again discussed byLondon and the government ofLower Canada.
• 1821 -McGill University obtains its royal charter.
• 1822 - Lower Canadian British merchants and bureaucrats petition for the Union ofUpper andLower Canada into a single colony before the British Parliament in London.
• 1823 - On May 10,Louis-Joseph Papineau andJohn Neilson are in London to present a petition of 60,000 signatures against the Union project.
• 1824 -Alexander Wolff (soldier) and his men arrive in Halifax to establish themselves on a land grant from England inCFB Valcartier where he became commander of the 11th Battalion of the Quebec Militia.
• 1825 - Opening of theLachine Canal.
• 1826 -Ludger Duvernay,Auguste-Norbert Morin, andJacques Viger found the newspaperLa Minerve.
• 1827 - TheParti Canadien becomes theParti patriote.
• 1827 - TheParti Patriote sends a delegation of three Members of Parliament --John Neilson,Denis-Benjamin Viger andAugustin Cuvillier—to London with a petition of 87,000 names and a series of resolution passed by the Legislative Assembly.
• 1828 - London appointsJames Kempt to replaceDalhousie.
• 1828 - On December 12,Daniel Tracey founds the newspaperThe Irish Vindicator and Canada General Advertiser, which becameThe Montreal Vindicator soon after.
• 1829 -McGill University begins instruction in 1829 with the Faculty of Medicine.

• 1830 -Lord Matthew Aylmer is appointed Governor.
• 1830 - The Port of Montreal is officially created.
• 1831 -Alexis de Tocqueville,Frencharistocratconservative political thinker and author ofDemocracy in America, spends a few days in the summer of 1831 inLower Canada.
• 1831 -Ludger Duvernay andDaniel Tracey are arrested and charged with sedition.
• 1831 -Henry Musgrave Blaiklock designs the Marine and Emigrant Hospital of Quebec, a prime example of neoclassical architecture in Lower Canada.
• 1832 -Daniel Tracey spends 35 days in prison in January for writing an editorial that encouraged physical attacks on members of the colonial government.
• 1832 - During aby-election in Montreal on May 21, rioting erupted and British soldiers opened fire on the crowd and killed three people.
• 1832 - A firstcholera epidemic kills 6,000 people.
• 1832 - Following the 1808 expulsion of theEzekiel Hart, aJew, from theLegislative Assembly of Quebec, the assembly passes a law giving full political rights to the Jewish citizens ofLower Canada (the1832 Emancipation Act), a first in the British Empire and some 27 years before Great Britain itself.
• 1833 - Foundation of theClub des femmes patriotes (Patriot Women's Club).
• 1834 - Foundation of theSaint-Jean-Baptiste Society on June 24.
• 1834 - Foundation of the monarchistQuebec Constitutional Association.
• 1834 - TheParti patriote is elected with a strong majority of the registered vote, taking 77 of 88 seats in theLegislative Assembly of Quebec. (L’élection générale de 1834 permet à la population bas-canadienne de faire choix de quatre-vingt-huit députés, répartis sur un total de quarante-six circonscriptions. /The general election of 1834 allowed voters of Lower Canada to choose 88 deputies, spread over a total of 46 constituencies.)^[1]
• 1834 - The Legislative Assembly presents theNinety-Two Resolutions, a document requesting democratic reforms inLower Canada.
• 1835 - Founding of the monarchistMontreal Constitutional Association in January.
• 1835 - Creation of theUnion patriotique.
• 1835 -Louis-Michel Viger andJacob De Witt foundLa Banque du Peuple. It becomes a chartered bank in 1844.
• 1836 - Founding of theDoric Club, a reincarnation of the bannedBritish Rifle Corp.
• 1836 - The laws establishing thenormal schools of the country are passed. They would have been the first secular, public, and free schools ofLower Canada.
• 1837 - On March 6, the British Parliament resolutions arrive in Lower Canada, rejecting the major demands of the colonists,Prime Minister Russell believing it was impossible for a governor to be responsible to the sovereign and a local legislature at the same time.
• 1837 - Foundation of the Comité central et permanent in April.
• 1837 - Founded in August, theSociété des Fils de la Liberté holds its first public assembly on September 5.
• 1837 -Town Hall meetings are held throughoutLower Canada between May and November.
• 1837, November 6 - The Doric Club members attack theFils de la liberté, members of theDoric Club destroy the office ofThomas Storrow Brown at the Vindicator newspaper.
• 1837 - On November 8, GeneralJohn Colborne begins to recruit volunteers for militias which are placed under the command of lieutenant-colonel Dyer.
• 1837 - On November 16,Lord Gosford orders the arrest of 26 patriots leaders on charges of hightreason.
• 1837 - On November 23British courier is killed inSaint-Denis-sur-Richelieu in an attack by theFils de la Liberté.
• 1837 -Battle of Saint-Denis on November 23.
• 1837 -Battle of Saint-Charles on November 25.
• 1837 - Patriots take control ofSaint-Eustache on November 30.
• 1837 - Proclamation of martial law in the district ofMontreal on December 5.
• 1837 - 80 Patriots are forced to retreat at Moore's Corner near the American border on December 6.
• 1837 - On December 13, GeneralJohn Colborne, Lord Seaton, leaves Montreal forSaint-Eustache leading 1,300 men.
• 1837 -Battle of Saint-Eustache on December 14.
• 1837 - The British troops sacked and burned the villages ofSaint-Benoît andSaint-Eustache.
• 1838 - February 26,Robert Nelson, General of the Patriots, gathers between 600 and 700 volunteers, theFrères Chasseurs and American sympathisers launch an attack on the British inLower Canada.
• 1838 -Robert Nelson proclaims the independence ofLower Canada inWeek's House on February 28. See theDéclaration d'indépendance du Bas-Canada.
• 1838 - The Constitutional Act is suspended on March 27. ASpecial Council is formed byLondon.
• 1838 - The envoy of the British government,John George Lambton, Lord of Durham, arrives inQuebec City on May 27.
• 1838 - Proclamation of amnesty for all prisoners, except eight who are exiled toBermuda, on June 28.
• 1838 - TheFrères Chasseurs take positions inBeauharnois,Sainte-Martine andSaint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu on November 3.
• 1838 - New proclamation of martial law on November 4.
• 1838 -Battle of Lacolle on November 7.
• 1838 -Battle of Odelltown on November 9. End of theLower Canada Rebellion.
• 1838 - Creation of a military court to judge 108 men.
• 1839 - Publishing of thereport of Lord Durham on February 11.
• 1839 - Following a trial for treason and murder, 12 Patriots were hung at thePied-du-Courant Prison on February 15.
• 1839 -Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham, succeeds Lord Durham as governor general of the Canadas.

• 1840 - TheAct of Union receives royal assent on July 23.

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