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Gustav Mahler 1860-1911
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1860
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1860 July 7, the birth date of Gustav Mahler.
1861
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1861 May 13, Britain declared its neutrality in the American Civil War.
1861
1861
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1861 Nov 30, The British Parliament sent to Queen Elizabeth an ultimatum for the United States, demanding the release of two Confederate diplomats.
1861
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1861 Dec 20, Transports were loaded with 8,000 troops in England. They were setting sail for Canada so that troops would be available if the "Trent Affair" was not settled without war.
1861
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1861 Britain passed a law against soliciting for murder.
1862
1862
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1862 William Banting, a London undertaker, was the first dieter on record. He went from 253 pounds to 153 on lean meat, fish and fruit.
1863
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1863 Jan 10, London's Metropolitan, the world's first underground passenger railway, opened to the public. It was nationalized in 1948.
1863
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1863 The Cayman Islands became a British Caribbean territory.
1865
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1865 Jun 3, George V, Saksen-Coburg, King of Great Britain, was born.
1865
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1865 Jul 5, Great Britain imposed world’s 1st maximum speed laws
1866
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1866 Nov 10, William Thompson (1824-1907), Irish-born Scottish professor, was knighted by Queen Victoria as Sir William Thompson. On his ennoblement in 1892 in honor of his achievements in thermodynamics, and of his opposition to Irish Home Rule, he adopted the title Baron Kelvin of Largs.
1867
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1867 Mar 5, an abortive Fenian uprising against English rule took place in Ireland.
1867
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1867 July 1, Confederation: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Ontario form the Dominion of Canada. John A. Macdonald becomes the first prime minister.
1868
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1868 April 7, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the fathers of Confederation and an outspoken enemy of the Fenians, becomes Canada's first assassination victim at the hands of a Fenian.
1869
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1869 June 22, Canadian Parliament agrees to buy Rupert's Land - All the Hudson's Bay Company territory
1869
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1869 November 2, Louis Riel and Métis occupy Lower Fort Garry. The red River Rebellion has begun.
1870
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1870 July 15, Manitoba joins Confederation.
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1870 March 4, Thomas Scott executed on orders of Louis Riel.
1871
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1871 July 20, British Columbia joins Confederation.
1873
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1873 July 1, Prince Edward Island joins Confederation.
1874
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1874 July 8, The Mounties leave Fort Dufferin on their march west to wipe out the whisky trade.
1874
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1874 July 26, Alexander Graham Bell discloses the invention of the telephone to his father at the family home on the outskirts of Brantford, Ontario.
1876
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1876 July 1, The Intercolonial Railway, growing out of the Halifax-Truro line, links central Canada and the Maritimes.
1885
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1885 November 7, The last spike of the transcontinental railway is put in place in the Eagle Pass, B.C
1891
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1891 June 6, John A. Macdonald dies age 76.
1896
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1896 August 16, Gold is discovered in the Klondike.
1903
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1903 October 20, Canada loses the Alaska boundary dispute when British tribunal representative Lord Alverstone sides with the U.S. Silver is discovered in Northern Ontario.
1907
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1907 December, Canada Dry Ginger Ale is first bottled.
1910
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1910 May 4, Royal Canadian Navy formed.
1911
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1911 May 18, date of death for Gustav Mahler.