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| 1 | 1835 | - 1835: UK - Parliament passes the Municipal Reform Act, requiring members of town councils to be elected by ratepayers and councils to publish their financial accounts
- 1835: UK - Commercial boom. 'Little' railway mania across Britain starts and continues into 1836
- 1835: UK - Englishman Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
- 1835: UK - Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
- 1835: UK - Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
- 1835: CA - Joseph Howe, a Halifax printer and owner since 1828 of the weekly Novascotian, is arrested for libel but successfully argues his own case for freedom of the press. A local hero, he begins advocating the kind of responsible government that is only established in 1848.
- 1835: NL - Eerste spoorlijn Haarlem - Amsterdam.
- 1 Jun 1835: CA - Official opening of the Kingston Penitentiary.
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| 3 | 1837 | - 1837: UK - Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist, drawing attention to Britain's poor.
- 1837: UK - Death of William IV
- 1837: USA - Martin van Buren president of the USA 1837-1841.
- 1837: UK - English schoolmaster Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
- 1837: UK - Victoria I, ruler of England to 1901. House of Hanover: Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III
- 1837: CA - Population of Upper Canada is 397,489.
- 1837: CA - British attempts to unite the colonies of Upper and Lower Canada lead to revolt. Two separate rebellions, one in Upper and one in Lower Canada, fail to dislodge entrenched elites.
- 1837: CA - Black militia units participate in putting down the rebellion in Upper Canada.
- 1837: CA - British parliament passes Coercion Bill, seizes Lower Canada treasury.
- 1837: CA - Unlike Upper and Lower Canada, other Canadian territories move toward responsible government without rebellion. New Brunswick accepts the British offer to allow their assembly more revenue control over salaries of public servants and judges. Nova Scotia agrees to the same conditions in 1839.
- Jul 1837: UK - Births, deaths and marriages must be registered by law
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| 4 | 1838 | - 1838: UK - The Anti-Corn Law League is established. Publication of the People's Charter. The start of Chartism
- 1838: CA/US - Conflict over the New Brunswick-Maine border begins in the Aroostook River area.
- 1838: CA - The Customs House, at Montreal, is finished.
- 1838: CA - The population of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island is 1,282,000.
- 1838: US - The governors of New York and Vermont forbid interference with Canadian difficulties.
- 27 May 1838: CA - As governor general and high commissioner of British North America, Lord Durham arrives to investigate the circumstances behind the Rebellions of 1837.
- 3 Nov 1838: CA - Second uprising in Lower Canada. Battle of the Windmill at Prescott, Upper Canada.
- 10 Nov 1838: CA - The rebels gain a victory at Beauharnois.
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| 6 | 1840 | - 1840: UK - Victoria I marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
- 1840: UK - There are reckoned to be 107 accountants in London
- 1840: New Zealand - New Zealand annexed
- 1840: UK - Englishman John Herschel invents the blueprint.
- 1840: Australia - During period to 1853 convicts are still sent to Tasmania at the rate of about 4,000 per year
- 1840: UK - Queen Victoria begins dressing the princes in kilts and sailor suits.
- 1840: NL - Willem I doet afstand van de regering. Willem II wordt koning der Nederlanden.
- 6 May 1840: CA - Postage stamps come into use.
- 23 Jul 1840: CA - Act of Union. The Queen sanctions the union of Upper and Lower Canada. The United Canada Act allows larger government to borrow more money.
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| 7 | 1841 | - 1841: UK - The first British Census recording the names of the populace is undertaken.
- 1841: UK - The Tories come to power. Sir Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister
- 1841: USA - William Henry Harrison president of the USA. He succumbed to pneumonia in 1841.
- 1841: USA - John Tyler president of the USA to 1845. He is the first vice president to succeed to the presidency due to death of a president.
- 1841: UK - Samuel Slocum patents the stapler.
- 1841: CA - The Dawn Settlement in what is now Dresden, Ontario, is established to provide self-help for Blacks in agricultural communities.
- 1841: NL - Clemens en August Brenninkmeijer openen hun eerste winkel op de Oosterdijk in Sneek.
- 13 Jun 1841: CA - First Parliament of Canada meets at Kingston.
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| 8 | 1842 | - 1842: UK - First Christmas card
- 1842: UK - First UK public telegraph lines, from Paddington to Slough and Gosport to London
- 1842: UK - Lord Shaftesbury's Mines Act forbids underground work for women and children under 10
- 1842: China - Hong Kong annexed
- 1842: UK - Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
- 1842: CA - The first Railway in Nova Scotia is begun.
- 9 Aug 1842: CA/US - The Webster-Ashburton Treaty ends the Aroostook War, settling once and for all the Maine-New Brunswick border dispute.
- 16 Oct 1842: CA - Queen's University is founded
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| 9 | 1843 | - 1843: UK - Alexander Bain (1818-1903) invented an early fax machine
- 1843: UK - About 2000 miles of railway lines now laid
- 1843: CA - Fort Victoria built by British to strengthen their claim to Vancouver Island.
- 1843: CA - The Cornwall and Chambly Canals are opened.
- 1843: CA/US - Survey of Boundary between the U.S. and Canada is begun.
- 9 Dec 1843: CA - Bishop's University is founded
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