User:Alaney2k/Timeline of Toronto history

These are significant dates in the history of Toronto, Canada.


 * 1615 - Etienne Brulé and Hurons visit the future site of Toronto
 * 1670 - Iroquois village of Teiaiagon known to exist on banks of Humber
 * September 23, 1787 - Toronto Purchase of lands for Toronto from Mississaugas
 * 1750 - establishment of Fort Rouillé by the French Régime
 * 1759 - abandonment of Toronto to the British by the French
 * 1793 - founding of Upper Canada
 * 1793 - arrival of Simcoe to Toronto
 * May 1793 - founding of York, Upper Canada.
 * February 1, 1796 - York becomes the permanent capital of Upper Canada.
 * 1797 - establishment of garrison at Toronto
 * 1804 - First St. Lawrence Market opens
 * August 1, 1805 - Revision of Toronto Purchase
 * April 27, 1813 - Americans defeat the British in the Battle of York and loot York.
 * March 6, 1834:
 * incorporation of the City of Toronto
 * William Lyon Mackenzie becomes the first mayor of Toronto.
 * December 7, 1837 - Battle of Montgomery's Tavern, one of the skirmishes of the Upper Canada Rebellion
 * April 7, 1849 - First Great Fire of Toronto
 * September 18, 1899 - opening of City Hall at Queen Street and Bay Street
 * April 19, 1904 - Second Great Fire of Toronto
 * January 1, 1954 - incorporation of Metropolitan Toronto
 * March 30, 1954 - opening of Yonge Subway
 * September 13, 1965 - opening of Nathan Phillips Square and Toronto City Hall
 * January 1, 1967 - reduction by merger of 13 municipalities into six of Metro Toronto.
 * June 26, 1976 - opening of CN Tower, world's tallest free-standing structure
 * January 1, 1998 - amalgamation of Metropolitan Toronto's constituent municipalities into unified Toronto.
 * June 8, 2010 - final resolution of Toronto Purchase between Government of Canada and Mississaugas