Events

• Sunday April 20 - Seven thousand French troops start to recapture Quebec
  Quebec
  Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
  
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• Monday April 28 - Murray's 7,714 troops retire to the Citadel
  Citadelle of Quebec
  The Citadelle — the French name is used both in English and French — is a military installation and official residence located atop Cap Diamant, adjoining the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada...
  
  , after fighting the Canadians outside the walls of Quebec. The French prepare to besiege.
• Friday May 9 - The belligerents, of each nationality, expect a fleet bringing troops and supplies. An approaching frigate proves to be British.
• Thursday May 15 - Two more British war-ships arrive. The British win a naval battle near Quebec.
• Saturday May 17 - The French raise the siege of Quebec.
• Saturday September 6 - General Jeffrey Amherst invades Montreal
  Montreal
  Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
  
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• September 6 to September 7 - A council of war, at Montreal, favors capitulation.
• Monday September 8 - Amherst's, Murray's, and Haviland's commands, around Montreal, are about 17,000.
• The articles of capitulation are agreeable to the French, except that they do not concede "all the honors of war" or "perpetual neutrality of Canadians."
• De Levis threatens to retire to St. Helen's Island and fight to the last; but the Governor orders him to disarm.
• Fortress Louisbourg demolished by the British.
• Fall of Montreal and surrender of Great Lakes and Ohio Valley French forts to English. Lord Jeffrey Amherst starts a "get tough with Indians" policy, including the first biological warfare --smallpox
  Smallpox
  Smallpox was an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor. The disease is also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera, which is a derivative of the Latin varius, meaning "spotted", or varus, meaning "pimple"...
  
  -infested blankets. Amherst granted some Seneca (originally his allies) lands to his officers. Odawa chief Pontiac (and the Delaware Prophet) organize a resistance preaching return to traditional Indian customs. The 1761 draft Proclamation (to English governors), and the Royal Proclamation of 1763
  Royal Proclamation of 1763
  The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War...
  
   (with a large Indian country in what's now the U.S. Great Lakes/Midwest) were part of the English Crown's attempt to mollify the Indians. Neither proclamation of undisturbed Indian lands was followed by settlers or the Crown.
• The British Conquest. General James Murray
  James Murray (military officer)
  James Murray FRS was a British soldier, whose lengthy career included service as colonial administrator and governor of the Province of Quebec and later as Governor of Minorca from 1778 to 1782.-Early life:He was a younger son of Alexander Murray, 4th Lord Elibank, and his wife Elizabeth...
  
   is appointed first British military governor of Quebec.

Births

• November 10 - William Black
  William Black (methodist)
  William Black was a Yorkshireman and founder of the Methodist congregation in colonial Nova Scotia....
  
  , Methodist minister (d.1834
  1834 in Canada
  See also:1833 in Canada,other events of 1834,1835 in Canada.----Events from the year 1834 in Canada.-January to June:*January - King William IV appoints an arbitrator to settle questions regarding customs dues between the Canadas....
  
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Deaths