Timeline of Quebec history (1663 to 1759)

Timeline of Quebec history
1608 to 1662	1663 to 1759	1760 to 1773

This section of the Timeline of Quebec history concerns the events relating to the Quebec portion of New France between the establishment of the Sovereign Council and the fall of Quebec.

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1663 - New France becomes a royal province under Louis XIV. The Sovereign Council is created to administer the colonies under the absolute authority of the King.
1663 - The first Filles du roi arrive in New France during the summer.
1663 - Arrival of Augustin de Saffray de Mézy, first governor named by the King, Monseigneur Laval, royal commissioner Louis Gaudais-Dupont and 150 colonists and craftmen on September 15.
1663 - Election of Jean-Baptiste Legardeur de Repentigny, the first mayor of Quebec City on October 17.
1665 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert appoints Jean Talon as intendant of New France.
1665 - The new governor de Mézy dies of sickness in Quebec City.
1665 - Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle becomes governor of New France.
1665 - Arrival of the Carignan-Salières regiment of 1,300 soldiers on June 19.
1665 - The Carignan-Salières regiment destroys five Mohawk nation villages, weakening Iroquois resolve to keep fighting.
1666 - A census conducted by Jean Talon in the winter of 1665-1666 showed a population of 3,215 French inhabitants residing in New France.
1666 - During the autumn, the soldier of Carignan-Salières, led by Alexandre de Prouville, the "Marquis de Tracy" and the governor, invade the Iroquois territory to the south, burn their villages and destroy their crops. See French and Iroquois Wars.
1667 - Signing of a peace treaty with the defeated Iroquois.

1672 - Louis Buade de Frontenac becomes Governor of New France on April 7.
1674 - Creation of the Roman Catholic diocese of Quebec. François de Laval is made Bishop.
1675 - The expression coureur des bois is coined to name those who bypass Royal officials and deal directly with the First Nations in the fur trade.
1675 - Arrival of the new intendant Jacques Duchesneau de la Doussinière et d’Ambault.

1682 - Arrival of governor Joseph-Antoine Le Febvre de La Barre and intendant Jacques de Meulles
1682 - René Robert Cavalier de La Salle takes possession of the basin of the Mississippi river for the king of France.
1684 - Pierre-Esprit Radisson, a coureur de bois, is employed by Britain to explore the north for furs.
1685 - Jacques-René de Brisay, marquis de Denonville becomes governor of New France.
1689 - Frontenac is reappointed governor of the territory seized by France from the Aboriginal peoples and renamed New France.
1689 - Louis XIV of France decrees the Code noir (Black Code) that ordered all Jews out of the French colonial empire, defined the rules for slavery, restricted the activities of free Negroes, and forbade the exercise of any other religion, other than Roman Catholic.
1689 - August 5. First Nations soldiers of the Iroquois Confederacy attack the French invaders who had seized their lands.

1692 - Marie-Madeleine Jarret de Verchères becomes a hero in New France for defending a fort against the Iroquois while waiting for French Army reinforcements.
1696 - During King William's War French troops seized the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and burned the city of St. John's.
1696 - René Lepage de Ste-Claire founded what will become the city of Rimouski later. He installed all his family in the Lower St.Lawrence. He obtained this Seigneurie from Augustin Rouer de la Cardonnière in exchange of a ground which he had on the Île d'Orléans.
1698 - Louis-Hector de Callière is made governor of New France after the death of Frontenac in November.
1699 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville establishes France's first permanent settlement in Louisiana.

1701 - August 4 : Signing of the Great Peace of Montreal between 39 First Nation tribes and the French Colonial government.
1702 - Beginning of Queen Anne's War between France and Great Britain.
1703 - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, governor of Montreal, is made governor of New France when de Callière dies in Montreal.
1704 - Claude de Ramezay is made governor of Montreal on May 15.
1704 - February 29 - Deerfield Massacre : French forces from Quebec and Native American forces under the command of Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville attacked the village of Deerfield, Massachusetts.

1712 - New France extends from Newfoundland to Lake Superior and from the Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.
1712 - Michel Bégon becomes intendant of New France
1713 - French colonists in all of North America number about twelve thousand, while British colonists numbered almost one million.
1713 - After eleven years of fighting, the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht ends Queen Anne's War between France and Great Britain.
1717 - French banker John Law's Mississippi Company sets up business in Louisiana and the Mississippi River basin.
1719 - Jacques David appointed royal notary of Montréal.

1731 - Beginning of the construction of the Chemin du roy between Quebec City and Montreal.
1734 - Marie-Joseph Angélique, a black slave, is hanged for burning the house of her owner.