Canadian Confederation
Canada is born without a war, by an act of Parliament
On 1 July 1867 the British North America Act came into force: Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick united as the Dominion of Canada, with Ottawa as its capital. John A. Macdonald became the first prime minister. Manitoba and British Columbia soon joined, and 1 July is celebrated as Canada Day.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — 22 years earlier
- 1861 Unification of Italy — 6 years earlier
- 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War — 3 years later
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — 19 years later
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — 22 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — 14 years earlier
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — 6 years earlier
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — same year
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 2 years later
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — 10 years later
Middle East
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 9 years later
Africa
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — 2 years later
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — 12 years later
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 18 years later
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 18 years later
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 19 years later
Asia
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — 14 years earlier
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — 1 year later
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — 9 years later
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 16 years later
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 18 years later
Oceania
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — 16 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Charles Darwin (aged 58)
- Karl Marx (aged 49)
- Queen Victoria (aged 48)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (aged 46)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 39)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 33)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 27)
- Thomas Edison (aged 20)
- Vincent van Gogh (aged 14)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 11)