Year | Date | Events |
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17th century |
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1610s | Étienne Brûlé arrives on the shores of Lake Ontario as the first European to set foot in the vicinity now known as Toronto. |
1650s–1700 | Teiaiagon Seneca village exists on the bank of the Humber at today's Baby Point neighbourhood |
18th century |
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1720 | Fort Douville is established. |
1750 | Fort Rouillé is established. |
1759 | Fort Rouillé is destroyed by its garrison.[1] |
1787 | The Toronto Purchase occurs. |
1791 | The lands of Etobicoke, York, and Scarborough are surveyed in preparation for settlement.[2] |
1792 | Joseph Bouchette is sent to Upper Canada to help survey the shores of Lake Ontario and produce maps. |
1793 | Fort York is established. |
August 26 | York (Upper Canada) is incorporated as a township. |
1795 | Etobicoke is named by John Graves Simcoe |
1796 | Scarborough is named by Elizabeth Simcoe. |
1797 | June 1 | The first session of the parliament of York is held. |
1797 | The Cathedral Church of St. James is established. |
19th century |
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1803 | St. Lawrence Market public market is established |
1806 | Lambton Mills is incorporated as a village. |
1813 | April 27 | The Battle of York occurs. |
July | Second looting of York by American forces |
1827 | March 15 | King's College is established. |
1829 | June 3 | The York General Hospital is opened as the first public hospital in York. |
1830 | The York Mechanics' Institute is established. |
1832 | The first post office of Scarborough is opened in Scarborough Village. |
1834 | March 6 | York is incorporated as a city and renamed as Toronto. |
1837 | December 7 | The Battle of Montgomery's Tavern occurs. |
1839 or 1840 | The first Catholic school in Toronto is opened.[3] |
1841 | December 28 | Several Toronto streets and stores illuminated by gas as a regular service for the first time. |
1844 | The Globe is established. |
1846 | December 19 | First telegraph message transmitted from Toronto. |
1847 | Wave of over 30,000 Irish Immigrants arrive in Toronto to escape the famine in Ireland. |
1849 | April 7 | The first Great Fire of Toronto occurs. |
May 30 | King's College is renamed as the University of Toronto. |
The Williams Omnibus Bus Line is established as the first public transit system in Toronto. |
1850 | January 1 | Etobicoke is incorporated as a township. |
Scarborough is incorporated as a township. |
York (Canada West) is incorporated as a township. |
1853 | May 16 | First railway (Ontario, Simcoe and Huron) begins operation from Bay and Front St. depot. |
Yorkville is incorporated as a village. |
1856 | October 27 | The first passenger rail service between Toronto and Montreal begins. |
The Armstrong, Beere and Hime panorama is created. |
1858 | April 13 | The Toronto Islands sand formation modified by a storm. |
The first Union Station is opened just west of York and Front Streets |
1861 | October 25 | The Toronto Stock Exchange is formed. |
September 11 | Toronto Street Railway is established. |
1869 | Eaton's is established. |
1872 | The Toronto Mail is established. |
1873 | July 1 | The second Union Station is opened. |
1874 | August 19 | Establishment of an official fire department is approved by the city council. |
1875 | March 1 | Hospital for Sick Children opens at its original site. |
September 26 | The Jubilee Riots occur. |
The Metropolitan Street Railway is established. |
1879 | June 8 | Toronto's first telephone book published. |
September 5 | The first Canadian National Exhibition (then known as the Toronto Industrial Exhibition) is held. |
1883 | September 25 | Toronto Electric Light Company is established. |
The Toronto Public Library is established. |
1884 | Brockton Village is annexed into Toronto. |
1887 | The Toronto Empire is established. |
1889 | Parkdale is annexed into Toronto. |
1890 | The Toronto and Mimico Electric Railway and Light Company is established. |
Toronto Railway is established. |
1892 | November 3 | The Evening Star is established. |
The Toronto and Scarboro' Electric Railway, Light and Power Company is established. |
1893 | April 4 | Queen's Park and the Ontario Legislative Building opens. |
1894 | May 17 | The University Avenue Armoury opens. |
June 14 | Massey Hall opens. |
Toronto Suburban Railway is established. |
The Toronto Mail and Toronto Empire merge to create The Mail and Empire |
1896 | August 31 | The first motion picture in Toronto is screened at Robinson's Musee at 81 Yonge Street. |
December 31 | All toll gates are abolished in York County. |
1897 | September 26 | Temple Building opens at Bay Street and Richmond Street as the tallest office building in Canada at the time. |
1899 | September 18 | The Old City Hall opens. |
20th century |
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1900 | January 24 | The Evening Star is renamed as The Toronto Daily Star |
The Art Museum of Toronto opens. |
1903 | May 10 | King Edward Hotel opens. |
1904 | April 19 | The second Great Fire of Toronto occurs. |
December 12 | First escalator in Toronto is installed at an Eaton's store on Queen Street West. |
1905 | December 2 | The first Toronto Santa Claus Parade is held. |
1906 | November 19 | Electricity generated at Niagara Falls begins to be supplied to Toronto. |
The Toronto Professional Hockey Club is established as the first professional ice hockey team in Toronto. |
1909 | October 28 | The Central Reference Library opens at the intersection of College Street and St. George Street. |
December 4 | The first Grey Cup game is held at Rosedale Field. |
1911 | The Toronto Blueshirts are established. |
1912 | October 7 | The Arena Gardens (later known as Mutual Street Arena) opens as the largest auditorium in Canada with the first artificial ice rink in Ontario. |
Toronto Civic Railways is established. |
1913 | June 13 | The Toronto General Hospital relocates to its present site at College Street. |
1914 | March 11 | The Toronto Blueshirts win the first Stanley Cup of Toronto. |
March 19 | The Royal Ontario Museum opens. |
"Ranelagh Park" estate home, later to be the Guild Inn opens. |
1915 | November 15 | Chorley Park, Ontario's fourth and last Government House, opens. |
1916 | September 16 | The Ontario Temperance Act takes effect. |
1917 | The Toronto Blueshirts are renamed as the Torontos. |
1918 | March 30 | The Torontos are renamed as the Toronto Arenas. |
October 18 | The Prince Edward Viaduct opens. |
1919 | December 8 | A statue of Timothy Eaton is unveiled on Queen Street West. |
The Art Museum of Toronto is renamed as Art Gallery of Toronto. |
The Toronto Arenas are renamed as the Toronto St. Patricks. |
1920 | August 28 | The Pantages Theatre opens as Canada's largest theatre. |
1921 | September 1 | The Toronto Transportation Commission is established. |
December 16 | The Coliseum opens on the Exhibition grounds. |
1922 | June 13 | North York is incorporated as a township. |
June 28 | Sunnyside Amusement Park opens. |
November 22 | The first Royal Agricultural Winter Fair opens. |
1923 | February 8 | First radio broadcast of an ice hockey game is made from Arena Gardens. |
1924 | January 1 | East York is incorporated as a township. |
July 19 | Telephone system begins switch from manual to automatic dialing. |
1925 | June 10 | United Church of Canada holds its first service at Arena Gardens. |
1925 | July 29 | Sunnyside Pool opens at Sunnyside Amusement Park as the largest outdoor pool in the world. |
August 8 | First automatic traffic signal begins operation at the intersection of Yonge Street and Bloor Street. |
1926 | April 29 | Maple Leaf Stadium opens as the Fleet Street Baseball Stadium. |
1927 | February 14 | The Toronto St. Patricks renamed as the Toronto Maple Leafs. |
June 1 | First liquor stores in Toronto open following repeal of the Ontario Temperance Act. |
August 6 | The new (present-day) Union Station is open. |
August 30 | Edward, Prince of Wales and Prince George inaugurate the new Princes' Gates at the Exhibition Grounds |
1928 | November 3 | First sound film in Toronto is shown at the Uptown Theatre. |
1929 | June 11 | The Fairmont Royal York is opened as the Royal York Hotel. |
October 29 | The Toronto Stock Exchange suffers its worst loss in history. |
1930 | January 21 | Cross Waterfront Railway Viaduct opens to elevate tracks from York Street to Queen Street West. |
1931 | January 31 | Commerce Court North opens as the tallest building in the British Commonwealth. |
June 4 | The intersection of College Street-Carlton Street and Yonge Street opened. |
1931 | November 12 | Maple Leaf Gardens opens with hockey game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks. |
1933 | August 16 | Christie Pits riot occurs. |
1934 | Fort York Guard created. |
March 6 | Centennial of the City of Toronto |
1936 | The Globe and The Mail and Empire merge to create The Globe and Mail. |
1938 | August 29 | Malton Airport opens. |
1939 | February 4 | Toronto Island airport opens. |
May 22 | King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother visit, marking the first visit of a reigning monarch to Toronto. The island airport is renamed Port George VI Island Airport in honour of the visit |
June 7 | Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) between Toronto and Niagara Falls, Ontario is opened. |
1944 | December 12 | 20.5|in|cm}} of snow fell in 24-hours. |
1947 | April 3 | The Silver Rail opens as the first bar in Toronto. |
1949 | January 18 | Conversion of hydro in Ontario to 60 cycles from 25 cycles begins. |
September 17 | SS Noronic burns at the Toronto Harbour resulting in 118 fatalities. |
1951 | August 9 | Canada Life Building's weather beacon opens. |
October 11 | The future Queen, Princess Elizabeth and husband Prince Philip visit Toronto as part of a cross-Canada tour.[4] |
December 1 | The Toronto-Barrie Highway opens. |
1952 | July 1 | The Toronto-Barrie Highway is renamed as Highway 400 |
September 8 | Ontario's first television station, CBLT, begins broadcasting in Toronto. |
November 1 | First English broadcast of Hockey Night in Canada is televised from Maple Leaf Gardens. |
1954 | January 1 | Metropolitan Toronto is created. |
March 30 | The Yonge subway line opens as the first rapid transit line in Canada. |
September 9 | Marilyn Bell becomes the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. |
October 15 | Hurricane Hazel affects Toronto and kills a total of 81 people in Ontario. |
1956 | August 24 | Highway 401's last section in Toronto from Bayview Avenue to Highway 2 opens. |
1958 | August 8 | The Gardiner Expressway from Humber River to Jameson Avenue opens. |
1960 | October 1 | The O'Keefe Centre opens. |
1961 | August 3 | The Don Valley Parkway's first phase, from Bloor Street to Eglinton Avenue opens. |
1964 | February 26 | The Yorkdale Shopping Centre opens. |
1965 | September 13 | The Toronto City Hall opens. |
November 10 | Northeast Blackout of 1965 occurs. |
1966 | February 25 | The Bloor-Danforth line opens. |
October 21 | The Spadina Expressway opens. |
July 8 | Art Gallery of Toronto is renamed Art Gallery of Ontario. |
1967 | May 23 | GO Transit is established as the first passenger rail system in Canada. |
Etobicoke, East York, North York, Scarborough, and York are incorporated as boroughs. |
1968 | October 28 | The McLaughlin Planetarium opens. |
1969 | September 26 | The Ontario Science Centre opens. |
1970 | July 5 | The Air Canada Flight 621 accident occurs as the deadliest aviation incident in Toronto. |
1971 | May 22 | Ontario Place opens. |
June 3 | The Spadina Expressway project into downtown is cancelled to go no further than Eglinton Avenue. |
November 6 | The Toronto Daily Star is renamed as The Toronto Star. |
1973 | May 2 | The Scarborough Town Centre opens. |
1974 | August 15 | Toronto Zoo opens (originally called Metro Toronto Zoo). |
October 26 | Art Gallery of Ontario relocates to its present site on Dundas Street. |
1975 | May 18 | The First Canadian Place opens as the tallest building in the Commonwealth of Nations. |
1976 | June 26 | The CN Tower opens as the tallest freestanding structure in the world. |
August 3 | The opening ceremony of the 1976 Summer Paralympics is held at the Woodbine Racetrack. |
February 11 | The Toronto Eaton Centre opens. |
November 2 | Toronto Reference Library relocates to its present site at the intersection of Bloor Street and Yonge Street. |
The first Toronto International Film Festival is held (originally called the Festival of Festivals) |
1979 | North York is incorporated as a city. |
1981 | May 23 | Canada's Wonderland opens. |
1982 | September 13 | The Roy Thomson Hall opens. |
1983 | Etobicoke, Scarborough, and York are incorporated as cities. |
1984 | October 2 | The Metro Toronto Convention Centre opens. |
1985 | March 22 | The Scarborough RT line opens. |
1989 | June 5 | Rogers Centre opens (originally known as SkyDome). |
1991 | The 1991 Toronto bomb plot is revealed. |
1992 | May 4 | A riot occurs after a protest march after the police shooting of Raymond Lawrence, a young black man. |
1993 | May 23 | The Princess of Wales Theatre opens. |
1995 | August 11 | The Russell Hill subway accident occurs. |
1996 | The O'Keefe Centre is renamed as Hummingbird Centre. |
1998 | January 1 | East York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, and York are amalgamated into Toronto. |
1999 | February 19 | The Air Canada Centre opens. |
21st century |
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2001 | July | The Pantages Theatre is renamed as Canon Theatre. |
2002 | November 22 | The Sheppard Subway Line opens. |
2003 | August 14 | Northeast Blackout of 2003 occurs. |
2005 | February 2 | Skydome is renamed as Rogers Centre. |
August 2 | The Air France Flight 358 accident occurs. |
December 26 | The Boxing Day shooting occurs. |
2006 | June 2 | The 2006 Toronto terrorism plot is thwarted. |
June 14 | The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts opens. |
September | The Hummingbird Centre is renamed as Sony Centre for the Performing Arts. |
2008 | August 10 | 2008 Toronto propane explosion occurs. |
2010 | June 8 | final resolution of Toronto Purchase between Government of Canada and Mississaugas |
June 26 | 2010 G-20 Toronto summit is held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. |
2011 | June 25 | 12th International Indian Film Academy Awards are held at the Rogers Centre. |
2012 | July 16 | Two people are killed and 22 wounded in the Danzig Street shooting. |
2014 | August 31 | Flexity streetcars debut on 510 Spadina Streetcar Line. |
2015 | June 6 | Union Pearson Express opens to connect Pearson Airport to Union Station. |
July 4 | Luminous Veil on Prince Edward Viaduct (aka Bloor Viaduct) has its lighting unveiled. |
July 10–26 | Toronto hosts 2015 Pan American Games. |
July 30 | Tunnel to the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (aka Island Airport) opens. |
August 7–15 | Toronto hosts 2015 Parapan American Games. |
2017 | September 23-20 | Toronto hosts the Invictus Games. |
December 17 | The Line 1 Yonge–University subway extension opens. |
2018 | April 23 | 10 people are killed and 16 wounded in a vehicle ramming attack on Yonge Street in North York. |
July 1 | The Air Canada Centre is renamed as the Scotiabank Arena. |
July 22 | Two people are killed and 13 wounded in the Danforth shooting. |
1. ^{{cite web|last1=Peppiatt|first1=Liam|title=Chapter 31A: Fort Rouille|url=http://www.landmarksoftoronto.com/fort-rouille/|website=Robertson's Landmarks of Toronto Revisited}}
2. ^{{cite web|url = http://www.torontofamilyhistory.org/chronology.html|title = Toronto Chronology|publisher = Ontario Genealogy Society - Toronto Branch|deadurl = yes|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929044646/http://www.torontofamilyhistory.org/chronology.html|archivedate = 2007-09-29|df = }}
3. ^{{cite web|last1=Peppiatt|first1=Liam|title=Chapter 42: The First Catholic School|url=http://www.landmarksoftoronto.com/the-first-catholic-school|website=Robertson's Landmarks of Toronto Revisited}}
4. ^{{cite news |work=CBC |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/princess-elizabeth-s-1951-royal-visit-to-canada-1.1061794 |title=Princess Elizabeth's 1951 royal visit to Canada |accessdate=July 4, 2016}}
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