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In 2018, trade between Canada and Spain totaled €3.4 billion Euros. [3] Canada's exports to Spain include: aircraft and parts, ores and ash, cereals, machinery equipment and energy related products. Spain's exports to Canada include: pharmaceutical products, combustibles, oil and minerals, beverages and electronic equipment.
Canada Day, [a] formerly known as Dominion Day, [b] is the national day of Canada.A federal statutory holiday, it celebrates the anniversary of Canadian Confederation which occurred on July 1, 1867, with the passing of the British North America Act, 1867, when the three separate colonies of the United Canadas, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were united into a single dominion within the British ...
Independence Day (Araw ng Kalayaan or Araw ng Kasarinlan) 12 June: 1898 Philippine Declaration of Independence by Emilio Aguinaldo during the Philippine Revolution against Spain. The Philippines achieved self-rule from the United States on 4 July 1946, and celebrated 4 July as Independence Day until 1964. [72] Republic Day: 4 July: 1946 United ...
Canada withdraws from the War in Afghanistan at the end of the first phase. [133] [134] [143] 2018: 17 October The Cannabis Act becomes law, making recreational cannabis use legal throughout the country. Canada is the second country (after Uruguay in 2013) to legalize recreational cannabis use nationwide. [144] 2020: 7 January - March
Catalonia will declare independence from Spain within days, the region’s leader said late Tuesday. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
So many Loyalists arrived on the shores of the St. John River that a separate colony—New Brunswick—was created in 1784; [102] followed in 1791 by the division of Quebec into the largely French-speaking Lower Canada (French Canada) along the St. Lawrence River and the Gaspé Peninsula and an anglophone Loyalist Upper Canada, with its capital ...
1838: During the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837/38, Patriote rebels, led by Robert Nelson issue a Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada, containing eighteen “solemn declarations” which are intended to form the basis of an eventual national constitution. Declaration #18: “That the French and English languages shall be used in all ...
The decolonization of the Americas occurred over several centuries as most of the countries in the Americas gained their independence from European rule. The American Revolution was the first in the Americas, and the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War (1775–83) was a victory against a great power, aided by France and Spain, Britain's enemies.