The Hamilton Foot Ball Club was formed.

The 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country was opened between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan.

Sergeant Colin Barron and Private James Robertson earn the Victorai Cross for actions in the Battle of Passchendaele.

RCN cruiser HMCS Rainbow arrives at Esquimalt, B.C. after becoming the first Canadian ship to sail around South America by the Strait of Magellan.

German spy Werner von Janowski is dropped off by U-518 at Chaleur Bay, Quebec, and is later captured.

As chairman of the infant National Socialist Workers' (Nazi) Party, Hitler launched an unsuccessful armed coup in Munich.

The Armistice brings an end to the First World War. Nearly 620,000 Canadians served, more than 66,000 gave their lives and some 172,000 were wounded.

The Battle of Ancre, November 13 - 18, 1916, the final large British attack of the Battle of the Somme, results in a British victory.

A large-scale trench raid at night (November 16-17) by Canadian troops serves as a blueprint for how future raids should be conduced.

Members of the elite American-Canadian First Special Service Force (The Devil's Brigade) arrive in Naples, Italy.

The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles which officially ended World War I.

Convicted in Canada's first piracy trial, Edward Jordan was hanged in Halifax.

Canadian merchant ship Fort Cataraqui led the first convoy following the Battle of the Scheldst into Antwerp, Belgium.

The Lucarno Pact was signed by Germany with Britain, France, Belgium, and Italy and which confirmed Germany's western borders with France and Belgium - as was established by the Treaty […]

An RAF Wellington bomber, crewed mainly by Canadians, is badly shot up but still acquires key data on German airborne rader.

1944 Canadian 1st Division captured Ravenna, Italy.

Canada declared war on Finland, Hungary and Romania, the same day as Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

The BAttle of Hong Kong began following the attack on PEarl Harbor.

The Battle of Kong Kong began following the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Canadian troops crossed the Moro River and pushed toward Ortona, Italy.

RCAF Pilot Officer John Gillespie Jr., composer of the sonnet "High Flight", died when his Spitfire collided with another aircraft during tactical training exercises.

1943 The Canadian 1st Division led off teh attack to dislodge the Germans from Ortona, Italy

An arsonist burned down the Knights of Columbus Hostel in St. John's. 99 died, and 109 were injured. German sabotage was suspected.

Germany launched the Battle of the Bulge, its final offensive on the Western Front.

The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was announced.

Japanese forces landed on Hong Kong Island.

The Newfoundland Regiment was among the last to be evacuated (December 19-20) from Suvla Bay after the disastrous Battle of Gallipoli, Turkey.

The Royal Canadian Dragoons and the Royal Canadian Regiment were formed.

As Christmas approached, soldiers of the Canadian Corps suffered through a cold, wet winter in Flanders.

U-806 was torpedoed HMCS Clayoquot off Halifax. Eight hands were lost.

Britain's Constitutional Act created Upper and Lower Canada and set the stage for rebellion.

1943, About December 27th: The German 1st Parachute Division quietly left Ortona, Italy to the Canadians. Canadian battle losses for December exceeded 2,300, including 500 dead.

Germany dropped incendiary bombs on London, England.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was created.

The RCAF reached its peak strength with 215,000 personnel, including 15,000 members of the Women's Division.

French and Belgian troops began the occupation of the Ruhr following German failure to maintain reparation payments.

Japan withdrew from the Second London Naval Conference after its request that its fleet be granted parity with the fleets of Britaain and the U.S. was refused.

President Hindenburg appointed HItler as chancellor.

1943 Convoy SC-118, which sailed from Halifax, was attacked in mid-Atlantic (February 4 - 7) by 20 U-boats. 13 merchantmen were sunk.

1945 In 1945 the Allies were driving eastward into the Rhineland, west of the Rhine River, and east of the Maas River, toward Germany's centre. Operation Veritable started on February […]

1941 The RAF raided oil-storage facilities in Rotterdam.

1945 Dresden was a site of German wartime production. On February 13, 1945, 796 bombers, including 67 from the RCAF No. 6 Group, bombed Dresden, Germany. Thousands died. It was […]

The Nazi Party secured 44% of the national vote.

Hitler adopted "Plan Sickle" for the invasion west, with the main thrust made through Ardennes (Belgium. Luxembourg, France).

Germany reoccupied the Rhineland.

German troops marched into Austria and Anschluss (political union) was proclaimed.

Hitler came second to Hindenburg in presidential elections, having gained 30% of the vote.

Mussolini was among those who formed the Fascist Fighting Corps.

Italy, Austria, and Hungary signed the Rome Pact.

The German Workers' Party, with a program drafted by Hitler, was renamed the Nazi Party.

Germany invaded Denmark, and Norway. Copenhagen was occupied within 12 hours.

Germany and Russia signed the Treaty of Rapallo which enabled the Germans to establish arms factories in Russia.

U.S., Britain and Japan signed the London Naval Treaty in which they agreed to restrict tonnages of warships.

In the Battle of Cut Knife, Chief Poundmaker's Cree warriors dealt Canadian troops their last defeat of the Northwest Rebellion.

Nearly 500 Germans were captured as Canadians attacked at Fresnoy, east of Vimy Ridge.

The Royal Canadian Navy was established.

Canadian General Charles Foulkes accepted the German surrender in the Netherlands.

A U-boat sank HMCS Valleyfield in the Atlantic Ocean; 125 perished.

The Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry helped prevent a German break-through in the Ypres Salient.

Maj.-Gen. Henry Procter and Tecumseh were forced to end a 10-day siege at Fort Meigs in Ohio.

1941 The British captured an Enigma cipher machine and codebooks after it boarded U-110 south of Iceland.

1945 The Allies were denied access to the port facilities at Antwerp, Belgium, and thus the ability to move equipment, supplies and men into northwestern Europe so as to push […]

Germans launched the invasion of the Low Countries and France.

Canadian tanks supported the attack on German lines in Italy's Liri Valley.

The Battle of the St. Lawrence began with a U-boat sinking two streamers off the Gaspé coast.

Queen Victoria asked her subjects to remain neutral in the U.S. Civil War.

Trainee navigator Kenneth Spooner took over for an unconscious pilot, saving three lives, but crashed. He is posthumously awarded the George Cross.

1940 A German bombing raid caused massive damage in Rotterdam.

Canadian air force pilot training, in hiatus since 1918, resumed at Camp Borden, near Barrie, Ontario.

Canadians launched initial attacks at Festubert, France.

1944 May 18th: After 4 major assaults on the Monte Cassino abbey, the Germans were pushed out and forced back to the Hitler Line, by the Poles and 1st Canadian […]

John Franklin departed England in search of the Northwest Passage.

Germany and Italy signed the Pact of Steel which created a military alliance.

S.S. Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver, but 352 Sikh, Muslim and Hindu refugees from India were turned away.

The first seven corvettes for the Newfoundland Escort Force arrived in St. John's.

Civilian barges, yachts, motorboats, fishing boats and ferries made possible the rescue (May 26 - June 4) of 340,000 mainly British soldiers being shelled on the beaches of Dunkirk, France.

The British retreated to Burlington Heights Ontario, abandoning Fort Erie on May 27th, 1813.

Operation Dynamo, which was the evacuation of British, French and Belgian troops from the beaches of Dunkirk. It was executed between May 26th and May 4th, 1940.

The Bismarck was hunted down and sunk on May 26th & 27th, 1941. This ended German warship operations in the Atlantic.

The Dionne quintuplets were born in Callander, Ontario on May 28th, 1934.

On May 31st the Boer War ended. Canada's contribution: $3 million and 7,368 troops.

June 3rd, 1940 was the last night of the evacuation from Dunkirk, bringing the total number of men rescued to 220,000 British and 120,000 French and Belgians.

On June 3rd, 1940, Germans launched a 300-bomber raid on Paris.

1944, June 6th: Allied paratroopers, including about 450 Canadians, parachuted from aircraft or landed in gliders behind German coastal defences on D-Day. Click on https://rememberourvets.ca/index.php/leblanc-leopold-paul-charles/

Allied paratroopers, including about 450 Canadians, parachuted from aircraft or landed in gliders behind German coastal defences on D-Day. Click on https://rememberourvets.ca/index.php/leblanc-leopold-paul-charles/

On June 22nd,1940, France signed an armistice with Germany. Did the same with Italy on June 24, 1940.

June 25th 1940  France signed an Armistice after its defeat by Germany. Germany had invaded France 6 weeks earlier.

On June 28th, 1919, Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles with the Allies, which officially ended World War I.

The Nazi Party won 230 of 609 seats in national elections, but Hitler refused to join a coalition.

Hitler merged the offices of president and chancellor to become Fuhrer and Supreme Commander.

1943, August 3rd.  Charles H. Kuhl, from Indiana, suffered from battle stress. Patton slapped him across the face with his folded gloves, dragged him across the hospital tent, and literally […]

1943, by August 17th: The Allied forces had no plan to keep Germans isolated on Sicily and over the month of August 40,000 Germans and 70,000 Italians crossed the Strait […]

The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact was signed.

Germany and the USSR signed a Non-Aggression Pact.

The Kellog-Briand Pact was drawn up, which renounced war as a means of settling international disputes. It was eventually signed by nearly all of the world's nations.

1944 The Gothic Line, Italy was finally pierced at 10 PM on August 31st, Involved were: the Perth Regiment, Cape Breton Highlanders, and 8th New Brunswick Hussars.

Nazi Germany invaded Poland.