Thursday, May 5, 2011
Cape Bretons Time Line
- 570 000 000bc --- The birth of Cape Breton
- 8000bc --- estimated arrival of the native people
- 1000ad --- first arrivals of viking people
- 1497 --- arrival of John Cabot/claiming of Cape Breton by England
- 1500 --- Breton Fishermen arrive from France
- 1501 --- Exploration by Gaspar Cortereal (Portuguese)
- 1520 --- Exploration by Portuguese explorer Joao Fagundes
- 1521 --- First permanent settlement (portuguese)
- 1536 --- partly mapped by Jaques Cartier
- 1578 --- Anthony Packhurst explores Cape Breton/first fight for possesion
- 1597 --- Captain Liegh lands at Sydney and explores Cape Breton
- 1604 --- settlement of niganis (ingonish)
- 1629 --- settlement of Baliene by Lord Ochiltree (English)
- 1630 --- Siege of Lord Ociltrees fort by the French (Captain Daniel)
- 1631 --- Building of the French fort and settlement at St. Annes
- 1636 --- establishment of the fur trade by Nicholas Denys
- 1713 --- Treaty of Utrect officially gives Cape Breton to France
- 1720 --- Fortress of Louisbourg is founded
- 1721 --- first coal mine in North America built near Louisbourg
- 1749 --- The first siege and capture of Louisbourg by the English
- 1752 --- Louisbourg returned to the French
- 1758 --- Louisbourg and St. Annes recaptured by the English
- 1785 --- Sydney founded by Fredrick DesBarres (English)
- 1820 --- Cape Breton becomes part of Nova Scotia
- 1885 --- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, came to Cape Breton
- 1902 --- First wireless telegraph ever sent from Glace Bay (Marconi)
- 1909 --- First flight in the British Empire (Alexander Graham Bell)
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