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