Timeline of Important events by Joel Beardy https://padlet.com/joelbeardy/ada96jy03245vw37 Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2022-03-11 16:54:43 UTC 2026-02-07 03:06:35 UTC hello@padlet.com December 17, 1903. joelbeardy https://padlet.com/joelbeardy/ada96jy03245vw37/wish/2090994261 Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft on December 17, 1903. Orville piloted the gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane, which stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight.


]]> 2022-03-11 19:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/joelbeardy/ada96jy03245vw37/wish/2090994261 March 3, 1847 joelbeardy https://padlet.com/joelbeardy/ada96jy03245vw37/wish/2091002381 Alexander Graham Bell, best known for his invention of the telephone, revolutionized communication as we know it. His interest in sound technology was deep-rooted and personal, as both his wife and mother were deaf.]]> 2022-03-11 19:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/joelbeardy/ada96jy03245vw37/wish/2091002381 November 07 1885 joelbeardy https://padlet.com/joelbeardy/ada96jy03245vw37/wish/2091010879 In 1880, the Canadian government contracted the Canadian Pacific Railroad to construct the first all-Canadian line to the West Coast. During the next five years, the company laid 4,600 kilometers of single track, uniting various smaller lines across Canada.]]> 2022-03-11 19:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/joelbeardy/ada96jy03245vw37/wish/2091010879 November 2, 1920 joelbeardy https://padlet.com/joelbeardy/ada96jy03245vw37/wish/2091015659 Italian inventor and engineer Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) developed, demonstrated and marketed the first successful long-distance wireless telegraph and in 1901 broadcast the first transatlantic radio signal.]]> 2022-03-11 19:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/joelbeardy/ada96jy03245vw37/wish/2091015659 1837 joelbeardy https://padlet.com/joelbeardy/ada96jy03245vw37/wish/2091024120 From her accession in 1837, Queen Victoria reigned over a rapidly changing empire. Industrialization and commercial growth were eroding the economic links between Britain and its colonies.

Under the old imperial commercial system, British colonies had been essential sources of raw materials and privileged markets for manufactured goods. By the 1840s, Britain was dismantling this system in favour of freer trade. This loosening of ties allowed the settler colonies of British North America to pursue greater autonomy within the empire.

]]> 2022-03-11 19:42:04 UTC https://padlet.com/joelbeardy/ada96jy03245vw37/wish/2091024120 1917 joelbeardy https://padlet.com/joelbeardy/ada96jy03245vw37/wish/2091029974 Confederation refers to the process of federal union in which the British North American colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Province of Canada joined together to form the Dominion of Canad]]> 2022-03-11 19:46:59 UTC https://padlet.com/joelbeardy/ada96jy03245vw37/wish/2091029974 1869 joelbeardy https://padlet.com/joelbeardy/ada96jy03245vw37/wish/2091032432 The Red River Resistance(also known as the Red River Rebellion) was an uprising in 1869–70 in the Red River Colony. The resistance was sparked by the transfer of the vast territory of Rupert’s Land to the new Dominion of Canada.]]> 2022-03-11 19:49:06 UTC https://padlet.com/joelbeardy/ada96jy03245vw37/wish/2091032432 1763 joelbeardy https://padlet.com/joelbeardy/ada96jy03245vw37/wish/2091036117 The historic treaties signed after 1763 provided large areas of land, occupied by First Nations, to the Crown (transferring their Aboriginal title to the Crown) in exchange for reserve lands and other benefits]]> 2022-03-11 19:52:25 UTC https://padlet.com/joelbeardy/ada96jy03245vw37/wish/2091036117