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1881 – St. Patrick's Church (St. John's) completed. St. Patrick's Church was consecrated on August 28. 1885 – Cathedral of St. John the Baptist completed in September. 1892 – Great Fire of 1892, The most famous major fire in St. John in the 19th century; 1894 – Masonic Temple (St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador) built.
St. John's is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland. The city spans 446.04 km 2 (172.22 sq mi) and is the easternmost city in North America (excluding Greenland).
The 1733 slave insurrection on St. John (Danish: Slaveoprøret på Sankt Jan) or the Slave Uprising of 1733, was a slave insurrection started on Sankt Jan in the Danish West Indies (now St. John, United States Virgin Islands) on November 23, 1733, when 150 African slaves from Akwamu, in present-day Ghana, revolted against the owners and managers of the island's plantations.
Timeline of St. John's history; Timeline of Toronto history; ... Timeline of the presidency of John F. Kennedy (1960–1963) Timeline of the presidency of Barack ...
[72] [73] Smallwood also upgraded the small Memorial University College in St John's, founded in 1925, to Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) in 1949, with free tuition and a cash stipend for students. [74] Smallwood's style was autocratic and highly personalized, as he totally controlled his party.
City of St. John's after the great fire of 1892; the double steeples of the Basilica of St. John the Baptist are visible on the far hill. The Great Fire of 8 July 1892 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador is remembered as the worst disaster ever to befall that city. [1] Previous "Great Fires" had occurred in St. John's, during 1819 and 1846 ...
The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (French: l'Ordre très vénérable de l'Hôpital de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem), [n 1] commonly known as the Order of St John, [3] and also known as St John International, [4] is an order of chivalry constituted in 1888 by royal charter from Queen Victoria and dedicated to St John the Baptist.
1814 — September 27, St. John's Church organized. Met in courthouse. 1816 — December 12, first church building consecrated by Bishop John Henry Hobart; a wooden gothic structure on site of present church, costing $14,000. 1815 — The Rev. Alanson Welton, Rector. 1815 - 1819 — The Rev. Dr. Henry Ustick Onderdonk, Rector.