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1752 Feb 25 John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, born in Cotterstock, England
1758 Aug 27 French surrender Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ontario) to British Colonel John Bradstreet
1759 Jul 24 Indians and British led by Sir William Johnson capture Fort Niagara from French forces
1759 Sep 13 English defeat French on the Plains of Abraham; both leaders, Wolfe and Montcalm killed.
1760 Aug 25 Britain's Jeffrey Amherst defeated Pierre Pouchot in France's last stand in North America
1771 Aug 15 Scottish writer Walter Scott born
1776 Feb 15 American Benjamin Franklin tried but failed to annex Canada
1780 Future Long Point Settler Peter Secord became the first to begin farming west of the Niagara River in Upper Canada
1780 May 19 The Dark Day. Darkness fell at 2 p.m. in Canada and New England, for no known reason.
1780 Aug 02 Future Townsend Township resident, Mary Stitt, 7, kidnapped from her New York home by Indians
1782 Aug 25 Col. John Bulter's Niagara settlement census counted 83 people, 16 families
1783 Dec 24 Loyalists disbanded; officers put on half pay.
1784 Jun 16 250 United Empire Loyalists land at Bay of Quinte (eastern Ontario), established Adolphustown
1785 Apr 21 Trial by jury established in Upper Canada
1785 May 18 John Stuart opened Upper Canada's first school at Kingston
1785 May 23 Benjamin Franklin invented bifocal eye glasses.
1788 Jul 24 Guy Carleton divides western part of Quebec (later Upper Canada, now Ontario) into four governable districts: Mecklenburgh, Nassau, Lunenburgh, and Hesse
1789 Apr 11 Nancy Manuel, the eldest of Five Sisters of St. Williams born. Collectively the five sisters lived a total of 429 years
1789 Dec 27 Upper Canada's first stagecoach service began, between Queenston and Fort Erie
1791 Dec 26 Constitutional Act divided the Province of Quebec into two provinces:
Upper Canada (now Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec)
1792 Feb 07 John Graves Simcoe advertises free land in Upper Canada for British Loyalists, particularly American Revolution Loyalists.
1792 Jun 22 First Methodist Church in Canada founded at Adolphustown
1792 Jul 16 John Graves Simcoe organized Upper Canada into 19 counties
1792 Sep 17 First session of Upper Canada Legislature opened by John Graves Simcoe
1793 Apr 18 The first issue of Upper Canada's first newspaper, Upper Canada Gazette, published at Newark
1793 Jun 08 First settlers arrived at Smith's Cove (Port Hope, Ontario) by boat
1793 Jul 09 Upper Canada passed law banning the import of slaves (first such law in British Empire)
1793 Aug 24 John Graves Simcoe celebrated the name change of Toronto to York
1793 Sep 28 Upper Canada passed law decreeing slave children born in Canada from this day forward are to be freed when they are 25
1793 Sep 29 John Graves Simcoe named Lake Simcoe after his father
1794 Mar 26 Peter Fairchild's daughter Sarah became one of the first white children born in what would become Townsend Township, Norfolk County
1796 Feb 01 Upper Canada's capital moved from Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake) to York (Toronto)
1796 May 13 Colonel John Butler of Butler's Rangers, died at Newark
1796 Jun 17 Scarborough, Ontario settled
1796 Jun 23 Donald McCall party arrived at mouth of Big Creek in Long Point Bay
1796 Jul 21 Ill, Lt.-Gov. John Graves Simcoe sailed from York for England, where he later died
1796 Aug 11 As per Jay's Treaty, British left Fort Niagara for the Americans
1798 Oct 03 Jemima Fairchild became first white woman to die at Long Point
1798 Dec 29 Presbyterian, Lutheran and Calvinist clergy joined Anglican clergy and Justices of the Peace on the list of those authorized to perform marriages in Upper Canada
1799 Jul 20 Canada Constellation, Upper Canada's first independent newspaper first published at Newark

Norfolk County-specific events in Red

 
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