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This article presents a detailed timeline of Quebec history. Events taking place outside Quebec, for example in English Canada, the United States, Britain or France, may be included when they are considered to have had a significant impact on Quebec's history. 1533 and before; 1534 to 1607; 1608 to 1662; 1663 to 1759; 1760 to 1773; 1774 to 1790 ...
Trudel's life's work was the history of New France, in particular his monumental and authoritative Histoire de la Nouvelle-France. Planned to be ten volumes in collaboration with another Quebec historian, Guy Frégault , Trudel wrote six volumes in the series, published between 1963 and 1999. [ 5 ]
With a participation rate of 85.27%, the highest in Quebec's history, 41% of voters give 71 seats to the PQ. 1976 – Quebec-born author Saul Bellow wins the Nobel Prize for literature. 1977 - On April 15, the Expos play their first game at Olympic Stadium. 1977 – On August 26, the Quebec Charter of the French Language (Bill 101) becomes law.
The Quiet Revolution ushered in a period of significant economic and social development not only in Quebec but also in French Canada and Canada as a whole. This transformation coincided with similar developments occurring in the Western world in general. It brought about notable changes to the physical organization and social structures of ...
Operation McGill français was a large street demonstration in Montréal during the Quiet Revolution.Though comprising a range of trade unionists, Quebec nationalists, students and other leftists raising many different demands (along with a small contingent from McGill's CEGEP), the protest's key objective was for McGill University to become a French-speaking educational institution.
"De la laine du pays de 1837, la pure et l'impure", in L'Encyclopédie de l'Agora, Cahiers d'histoire du Québec au XX e siècle, no 6, 1996; Robitaille, Antoine. "La nation, pour quoi faire? Archived 2008-10-14 at the Wayback Machine", in Le Devoir, November 25, 2006; Roy-Blais, Caroline.
1790 – The Dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution marks the beginning of a sharp tightening of the powers and influence of the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec that would last until 1960. 1791 - The Constitutional Act is enacted by the British Parliament on June 10. 1792 - The first elections of Lower Canada are held on June 11.
Ludger Duvernay (January 22, 1799 – November 28, 1852), born in Verchères, Quebec, was a printer by profession and published a number of newspapers including the Gazette des Trois-Rivières, the first newspaper in Lower Canada outside of Quebec City and Montreal, and also La Minerve, which supported the Parti patriote and Louis-Joseph Papineau in the years leading up to the Lower Canada ...