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Chronology
- New France, 1600 - 1730
- 1600-1649
- Pre-Contact
- French-Iroquois Confrontation: 1609
- Destruction of Port Royal: 1613
- Iroquois-Dutch Trade Established: 1614
- Iroquois Offensive: 1615
- First Citizen Defence Force in Canada-Port Royal: 1627
- Fall of Quebec: 1629
- Return of Quebec to France, 1632
- Iroquois Raids: 1640
- Iroquois Warfare: 1640-1650
- Founding of Montreal and Fort Richelieu: 1642
- Iroquois Offensive against the Huron-Wendat: 1647-1649
- Protecting the St. Lawrence Trade Route: 1647-1649
- 1650-1730
- Canada's First Militia Units: 1650-1651
- Militia Defeats: 1652-1659
- Battle of Long Sault: 2-10 May 1660
- Canadian Request for French Troops: 1661-1662
- Soldats de la Sainte-Famille de Jésus, Marie et Joseph: 1663-1666
- French Regulars Sent to Canada: 1665
- Courcelle's Counteroffensive against the Iroquois: 30 Jan -17 Mar 1666
- Marquis de Tracy's Offensive: Sept 1666
- Withdrawal of French Troops and "Soldier-Settlers": 1667
- Reorganization of the Canadian Militia: 1669-1673
- Hudson's Bay Company: 1670
- Fort Frontenac: 1673
- Iroquois Offensive: 1682
- Compagnies franches de la Marine: 1683
- French Expedition to James Bay: 1686
- Canadian Officers in the Troupes de la Marine: 1687
- War in Europe and the Iroquois Offensive: 1689
- Frontenac's Counteroffensive: Feb - Mar 1690
- Defence of Quebec: Oct 1690
- Frontenac's Victory: 1692-1696
- War of the Spanish Succession: 1702-1713
- Fortification of New France: 1720-1736
- 1600-1649
- Imperial Rivalry, 1731 - 1763
- King George's War-the Siege of Louisbourg: 1745
- French Expansion to the South: 1750-1754
- Anglo-American Expeditions to the Ohio Valley: 1753-1754
- Reinforcements for Canada: 18 May 1755
- British Conquest of Acadia: June 1755
- Fort Duquesne and Braddock's Defeat: 9 July 1755
- Declaration of War and British Strategy: 1756
- Vaudrueil's War Plans: 1756
- Franco-Canadian Victory at Oswego: 11 Aug 1756
- Fort William Henry: 9 Aug 1757
- Siege of Louisbourg: 30 May-27 July 1758
- Battle of Ticonderoga: 8 July 1758
- Siege of Quebec: 26 June-13 Sept 1759
- Battle of Ste.-Foy: 28 Apr 1760
- Fall of New France: 9 Sept 1760
- Pontiac's War: 23 May-28 Nov 1763
- Colony to Confederation, 1764 - 1866
- 1764-1811
- Quebec Act: 1774
- First American Attack on Canada: 10 May-10 June 1775
- British Regiments Established in Canada: 12 June 1775
- Siege of Quebec: 1775-1776
- Battle of the Cedars: 19 May 1776
- American Retreat from Trois-Rivières: 8 July 1776
- Battle of Saratoga: 17 Oct 1777
- Canadian-Mohawk Raids: 1778
- American Offensives against the Iroquois: 1779
- British Surrender at Yorktown: 19 Oct 1781
- Treaty of Paris: 4 Feb 1783
- North West Company: 1788
- Queen's Rangers: 1792
- Fortification of Halifax Harbour: 1793-1798
- British Regiments Established in Canada: 1793
- Fort Edmonton Established: 1795
- British Blockade of France: 1805
- Leopard-Chesapeake Incident: 22 June 1807
- Militia Act: 1808
- Isaac Brock Posted to Upper Canada: 1810
- Battle of Tippecanoe: 7 Nov 1811
- 1812-1814 (War of 1812)
- American Declaration of War: 18 June 1812
- Capture of Michilimackinac: 16 July 1812
- Surrender of Fort Detroit: 16 Aug 1812
- Battle of Queenston Heights: 13-14 Oct 1812
- Destruction of York: 26-30 April 1813
- Battle of Stoney Creek: 5-6 June 1813
- Battle of Moraviatown: 5 Oct 1813
- Battle of Châteauguay: 25 Oct 1813
- Battle of Crysler's Farm: 11 Nov 1813
- Battle of Lundy's Lane: 25 July 1814
- Burning of Washington: 24-25 Aug 1814
- Treaty of Ghent: 24 Dec 1814
- 1815-1866
- Construction of the Rideau Canal and Fort Henry, Kingston: 1832-1836
- Rebellion in Lower Canada: 6-15 Nov 1837
- Rebellion in Upper Canada: 5-16 Dec 1837
- Battle of Grand Coteau—North Dakota: 12-14 July 1851
- Militia Act: 1855
- 100th Royal Canadian Regiment of Foot: 1858
- American Civil War: 1861-1865
- Fenian Raid-Ridgeway: 31 May-2 June 1866
- 1764-1811
- Young Nation, 1867 - 1898
- Lieutenant-Colonel George T. Denison Publishes Modern Cavalry: 1868
- First Federal Militia Act: 1868
- Red River Expedition: 1870
- Last Fenian Raid-Vermont-Quebec Border: 25 May-7 June 1870
- Establishment of the North-West Mounted Police: 1873-1874
- Reforms in Canadian Militia Command: 1874
- Royal Military College, Kingston: June 1876
- Battle of the Little Bighorn: 25 June 1876
- First Imperial Request for Canadian Troops: 1884
- North-West Rebellion: 1885
- Medical Services during the North-West Rebellion: Apr 1885
- Battle of Fish Creek: 24 Apr 1885
- Battle of Cut Knife Hill: 2 May 1885
- Battle of Batoche: 9-12 May 1885
- Battle of Frenchman's Butte: 28 May 1885
- The Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente: 1890-1905
- German Naval Expansion and the Dominion Fleet Proposal: 1897
- Yukon Field Force: May 1898
- Boer War, 1899 - 1902
- Imperial Influences, 1903-13
- First World War, 1914-18
- 1914
- Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand: 28 June 1914
- Outbreak of the First World War: 28 July 1914
- Schlieffen Plan and Plan XVII: Aug 1914
- Canadian Mobilization: Aug. 1914.
- Formation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade No. 1: Sept. 1914
- First Canadian Contingent Embarks for Europe: 12-16 Oct 1914
- Canadian Contingent Kept Intact: 12-16 Oct. 1914.
- 1915
- First Canadian Troops Deployed on Western Front: 6 Jan 1915
- Second Canadian Contingent Embarks for Europe: Jan-May 1915
- Canadians Conduct the First Trench Raid of the War: 28 Feb 1915
- Ross Rifle Controversy: 1915
- First Gas Attack on the Western Front-the Second Battle of Ypres: 22 Apr 1915
- Creation of the Canadian Corps: 13 Sept 1915
- British Officer Appointed to Command the Canadians: 16 Oct 1915
- 1916
- Arrival of the 3rd Canadian Division: Mar 1916
- Battle of St Eloi Craters, Belgium: 6-19 Apr 1916
- Byng Replaces Alderson As Commander of the Canadian Corps: 28 May 1916
- Mont Sorrel, Belgium: 1-13 June 1916
- Somme Offensive: 1 July-18 Nov. and Courcelette, France: 15 Sept 1916
- Canadian Corps Transferred to the Vimy Sector: Nov 1916
- 4th Canadian Division Joins the Canadian Corps: 30 Nov 1916
- 1917
- 1918
- Canadian Troops in Northern Russia: Mar 1918-Aug 1919
- Ludendorff Offensives: 21 Mar-19 July 1918
- Captain Roy Brown Shoots Down the Red Baron: 21 Apr 1918
- Amiens-"The Black Day of the German Army": 8 Aug 1918
- Canadian Breakthrough at Quéant, France: 2 Sept 1918
- Siberian Expedition: Oct 1918-Apr 1919
- Armistice: 11 Nov 1918
- Canadian War Effort: 1918
- 1914
- Interwar Years, 1919 - 1938
- Establishing the League of Nations: 1919
- Canadian Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference: 1919
- King and Canadian Foreign and Military Policy: 1921-1938
- Chanak Crisis: 1922
- Formation of the Royal Canadian Air Force: 1 Apr 1924
- Japanese Invasion of Manchuria: 1931
- Italian Invasion of Ethiopia: 1935
- Spanish Civil War: 1936
- Reorganization of the Royal Canadian Air Force: 1936
- Reorganization of the Canadian Militia: 1936
- Japanese Invasion of China: 7 July 1937
- Second World War, 1939-45
- 1939
- German Rearmament and Expansion: March 1939
- Britain and France guarantee Polish Sovereignty: 31 March 1939
- The Nazi-Soviet Pact of Non-Aggression: 23 August 1939
- Canadian Mobilization: Aug 23-30 Sept 1939
- The German Invasion of Poland - Canada Declares War: 10 September 1939
- Royal Canadian Navy Escorts the First Transatlantic Convoy: 16 Sept 1939
- Establishment of the British Commonwealth Air Training Program: 28 Sept 1939
- 1st Canadian Division Arrives in Britain: 17 Dec 1939
- 1940
- Invasion of France and the Low Countries: 10 May-4 June 1940
- Canadian Destroyers in the English Channel: 28 May-30 June 1940
- Corvettes for the Royal Canadian Navy: June 1940
- Canadian 1st Infantry Brigade in France: 13-18 June 1940
- 1st Canadian Division in Britain-"McNaughton's Flying Circus": July 1940
- CPR Air Services Department: July 1940
- Convoy System: 1940-1945
- Battle of Britain: 1 Aug-17 Sept 1940
- Ogdensburg Agreement: 17 Aug 1940
- Royal Canadian Air Force Squadron Number 1: 24 Aug 1940
- Royal Air Force Squadron Number 242-the "Canadian Squadron": Summer 1940
- Royal Canadian Navy Convoy Escorts: Sept-Dec 1940
- "Destroyers-for-Bases": 5 Sept 1940
- British Commonwealth Air Training Program-First Pilots: 30 Sept 1940
- First Atlantic Ferry Operation: 10 Nov 1940
- 1941
- Battle of the Atlantic-Merchant Ships Lost to U-boats: 1941-1943
- Battle of the Atlantic: 1941-1943
- Royal Canadian Air Force Bomber Force: 23 Apr 1941-30 May 1942
- "Murmansk Run": July 1941
- "Operation Gauntlet"-Spitzbergen: 19 Aug-8 Sept 1941
- Canadian Corvettes Sink First U-boat: 10 Sept 1941
- Defence of Hong Kong: 8-25 Dec 1941
- 1942
- Leonard J. Birchall-the "Saviour of Ceylon": 4 Apr 1942
- HMCS Fort Ramsay : 1 May 1942
- U-553 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence: 10-12 May 1942
- Canadian Pilots in Malta: June-Oct 1942
- 1st Special Service Force-"The Devil's Brigade": 9 July 1942
- Dieppe: 19 Aug 1942
- Convoy SC-107: Oct 1942
- Sinking of the Proserpina: 26 Oct 1942
- "Operation Torch" and the Royal Canadian Navy: 8 Nov 1942
- 1943
- Battle of the Atlantic-the Tide Turns: 1943-1944
- Royal Canadian Navy Corvettes in the Mediterranean: Jan-May 1943
- Royal Canadian Air Force-Bomber Group 6: January 1943
- Canadian 1st Division and the Sicily Landings: 9 July 1943
- Royal Canadian Navy and the Sicily Campaign: 9 July-5 Aug 1943
- Assoro, Sicily: 21-22 July 1943
- Leonforte, Sicily: 22-23 July 1943
- Kiska Landings: 15-16 Aug 1943
- Invasion of Italy-the 1st Canadian Corps: 3 Sept 1943
- Royal Canadian Air Force Lancasters: 9 Sept 1943
- "Devil's Brigade" in Italy-Monte la Difensa: 2-3 Dec 1943
- Crossing the Moro River: 9 Dec 1943
- Casa Berardi: 14 Dec 1943
- Ortona: 20-27 Dec 1943
- 1944
- Canadian Destroyers in the English Channel: 25-29 Apr 1944
- Breaching the "Hitler Line"-the 1st Canadian Corps in Italy: 23 May 1944
- D-Day-Royal Canadian Navy Motor Torpedo Boat Operations: 6-8 June 1944
- D-Day-the Royal Canadian Navy: 6 June 1944
- D-Day-the Royal Canadian Air Force: 6 June 1944
- D-Day-the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division: 6 June 1944
- Carpiquet: 4 July 1944
- Caen: 8-9 July 1944
- 2nd Canadian Corps-Operation Goodwood: 18 July 1944
- 1st Canadian Army: 23 July 1944
- Falaise Gap: 7-21 Aug 1944
- Gothic Line-1st Canadian Corps in Italy: 30 Aug-1 Sept 1944
- Return to Dieppe: 1 Sept 1944
- 1st Canadian Army Enters Belgium: 7 Sept 1944
- 1st Canadian Army Clears the Scheldt Estuary: 2 Oct-8 Nov 1944
- 1945
- Canadian Demobilization: 1945-1946
- 1st Canadian Army-the Offensive into Germany: 8 Feb 1945
- 29th Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla Disaster: 14 Feb 1945
- Canadian Army Liberates Holland: Mar-Apr 1945
- 1st Canadian Corps Joins 1st Canadian Army: 15 Mar 1945
- Surrender of the 25th German Army to the 1st Canadian Army: 5 May 1945
- Unconditional Surrender of Germany: 7- 8 May 1945
- War in the Pacific: 1 June-10 Aug 1945
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan: 6-9 Aug 1945
- Japanese Surrender: 10 Aug-2 Sept 1945
- Gouzenko Affair: 5 Sept 1945
- 1939
- 1946 to Present
- 1946-1956
- Canada's First United Nations Mission-Korea: 1948-1949
- UN Truce Supervision Organization (Palestine)-Middle East: 1948
- Canadian Armed Forces and the United Nations: 1949-2001
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization: 4 Apr 1949
- UN Military Observer Mission-India-Pakistan: 1949-1996
- Canadian Military Expansion: 1950-1954
- North American Air Defence - The Pine Tree, Mid-Canada and DEW Lines: 1950-1954
- The F-86 Sabre – Royal Canadian Air Force: 1950
- CF-100 “Canuck” – Royal Canadian Air Force Interceptor: 19 January 1950
- Expansion for the Korean War and NATO: 1950 – 1954
- The Korean War: 25 June 1950
- Canadian Defence at Kap'yong-Hill 677: 24-25 Apr 1951
- Battle for Hill 355─Korea: 22-25 Nov 1951
- International Commission for Supervision and Control-Indochina: 1954-1974
- Avro CF-105 Arrow: 1955-1959
- Suez Crisis and the United Nations Emergency Force I: 1956
- 1957-1964
- Bomarc Missile and the Nuclear Weapons Controversy: 1958-1963
- UN Mission in the Congo: 2 Sept 1960-30 June 1964
- Berlin Crisis and the Buildup of 4 CIBG: 1961-1968
- The Royal Canadian Air Force – CF-101 Voodoo: 1961-1984
- Royal Canadian Air Force—CF-104 Starfighter: 1961-1986
- Cuban Missile Crisis: 25 Oct-12 Nov 1962
- Canadian Peacekeepers in Cyprus: 15 Mar 1964-15 June 1993
- Reorganization of the Canadian Armed Forces: 7 July 1964
- Integration and Unification of the Canadian Armed Forces:7 July 1964-1 Feb 1968
- 1965-1979
- UN Observation Mission-India and Pakistan: 1965-1966
- UN Observation Mission-Yemen: 1965
- Restructuring of the Canadian Armed Forces: 1969
- October Crisis: 5 Oct-12 Nov 1970
- United Nations Emergency Force II-The Middle East: 1973-1979
- Canadian Airborne Regiment and the Defence of Nicosia Airport: July 1974
- Canadian Armed Forces-Leopard Tanks: 1976
- UN Interim Force in Lebanon: 1978
- Multinational Force and Observers-Sinai: 1979
- 1980-1989
- 1990-2000
- Oka Crisis-Kahnewake: 11 July-26 Sept 1990
- Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War: 2 Aug 1990-28 Feb 1991
- UN Missions in Cambodia: 1991-1992
- UN Verification Mission-Angola: 1991-1994
- UN Mission in the Western Sahara: 1991-1994
- UN Mission in El Salvador: 1991-1995
- United Nations Observation and Weapons Inspection-Iraq-Kuwait: 1991
- Dissolution of Yugoslavia: 1991
- European Community Monitor Mission-Yugoslavia: 1991
- UN Missions in Somalia: 1992-1995
- United Nations Protection Force-the Balkans: Feb 1992-Dec 1996
- 1st Battalion, Le Royal 22e Régiment and the Opening of Sarajevo Airport: July 1992
- UN Missions in Rwanda: 1993-1996
- UN Missions in Haiti: 1993-1997
- Canadian Armed Forces Withdraw from Europe: 30 July 1993
- 2PPCLI and the Reoccupation of the Medak Pocket-Croatia: 16 Sept 1993
- Somalia Inquiry, 1994-1997
- Implementation Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina: 1996-1997
- Stabilization Force in Bosnia: 1997
- Kosovo: 1999
- 2001 to Present
- 1946-1956
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