1793 -
France declares war on
England on February 8.
1793 - Prorogation of the first session of the Parliament on May 9.
1793 - On September 23, governor
Dorchester demands that the Assembly punishes foreigners threatening the British government in Canada or any seditious citizen.
1793 - In October, there are rumours that a French fleet is coming to retake Canada.
1793 - The second session of the Parliament opens on November 11.
1795 - Introduction of the first property tax in Lower Canada.
1796 - The first county of the
Eastern Townships, Dunham, is created.
1797 -
Robert Prescott becomes Governor General on April 27.
1808 - On June 14, the owners of the newspaper Le Canadien were demoted from their functions in the government.
1809 - On April 18, the Legislative Assembly votes a resolution on the ineligibility of judges during elections.
1809 - Governor
Craig dissolves the Parliament on May 15.
1809 - Elections on November 24.
1810s
1810 - On February 13, the Legislative Assembly passes three addresses: one for the King, one for the House of Lords and one for the House of Commons to request control over the budget.
1822 - Lower Canadian British merchants and bureaucrats petition for the Union of
Upper and
Lower Canada into a single colony before the British Parliament in London.
1823 - On May 10,
Louis-Joseph Papineau and
John Neilson are in London to present a petition of 60,000 signatures against the Union project.
1824 -
Alexander Wolff (soldier) and his men arrive in Halifax to establish themselves on a land grant from England in
CFB Valcartier where he became commander of the 11th Battalion of the Quebec Militia.
1828 - On December 12,
Daniel Tracey founds the newspaper The Irish Vindicator and Canada General Advertiser, which became The Montreal Vindicator soon after.
1829 -
McGill University begins instruction in 1829 with the Faculty of Medicine.
1831 -
Henry Musgrave Blaiklock designs the Marine and Emigrant Hospital of Quebec, a prime example of neoclassical architecture in Lower Canada.
1832 -
Daniel Tracey spends 35 days in prison in January for writing an editorial that encouraged physical attacks on members of the colonial government.
1832 - During a
by-election in Montreal on May 21, rioting erupted and British soldiers opened fire on the crowd and killed three people.
1832 - A first
cholera epidemic kills 6,000 people.
1834 - The
Parti patriote is elected with a strong majority of the registered vote, taking 77 of 88 seats in the
Legislative Assembly of Quebec. (L’élection générale de 1834 permet à la population bas-canadienne de faire choix de quatre-vingt-huit députés, répartis sur un total de quarante-six circonscriptions. /The general election of 1834 allowed voters of Lower Canada to choose 88 deputies, spread over a total of 46 constituencies.)[1]
1836 - The laws establishing the normal schools of the country are passed. They would have been the first secular, public, and free schools of
Lower Canada.
1837 - On March 6, the British Parliament resolutions arrive in Lower Canada, rejecting the major demands of the colonists,
Prime Minister Russell believing it was impossible for a governor to be responsible to the sovereign and a local legislature at the same time.
1837 - Foundation of the Comité central et permanent in April.
1838 - February 26,
Robert Nelson, General of the Patriots, gathers between 600 and 700 volunteers, the Frères Chasseurs and American sympathisers launch an attack on the British in
Lower Canada.