Events from the year 1805 in Canada.
Incumbents
*
Monarch:
George III
Federal government
*
Parliament of Lower Canada:
4th
Fourth or the fourth may refer to:
* the ordinal form of the number 4
* ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971
* Fourth (angle), an ancient astronomical subdivision
* Fourth (music), a musical interval
* ''The Fourth'' (1972 film), a Sovie ...
(starting January 9)
*
Parliament of Upper Canada:
4th
Fourth or the fourth may refer to:
* the ordinal form of the number 4
* ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971
* Fourth (angle), an ancient astronomical subdivision
* Fourth (music), a musical interval
* ''The Fourth'' (1972 film), a Sovie ...
(starting February 1)
Governors
*
Governor of the Canadas:
Robert Milnes then
Thomas Dunn
*
Governor of New Brunswick:
Thomas Carleton
*
Governor of Nova Scotia
The following is a list of the governors and lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in Nova Scotia came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1867, the po ...
:
John Wentworth
*
Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland:
Erasmus Gower
*
Governor of Prince Edward Island:
Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres
Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres (22 November 1721 or April–May 1729 – 24 or 27 October 1824) was a Canadian cartographer who served in the Seven Years' War, as the aide-de-camp to General James Wolfe. He later went on to serve as the L ...
*
Governor of Upper Canada:
Peter Hunter (until 21 August)
Events
* January 29 –
4th Parliament of Lower Canada session starts, ends April 27, 1808
* February 1 –
4th Parliament of Upper Canada
The 4th Parliament of Upper Canada was opened 1 February 1805. Elections in Upper Canada had been held in May 1804. All sessions were held at Parliament Buildings of Upper Canada in York, Upper Canada. This parliament was dissolved 21 May ...
session starts, ends May 21, 1808
*
arrives in Nova Scotia
*
Vermont passes an act to establish the line between it and
Canada.
Births
* February 16 –
Edmund Walker Head, Governor General (d.
1868
Events
January–March
* January 2 – British Expedition to Abyssinia: Robert Napier leads an expedition to free captive British officials and missionaries.
* January 3 – The 15-year-old Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Jap ...
)
* August 26 –
Joseph-Bruno Guigues
Joseph-Bruno Guigues, (26 August 1805 – 8 February 1874), was an Oblate priest, a teacher and became the first bishop of the diocese of Bytown (Ottawa) serving from (1847–1874). His consecration service in 1848 was performed by Rémi Gau ...
, first bishop of the
diocese of Bytown (Ottawa) (d.
1874
Events
January–March
* January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx.
* January 2 – Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the Dominican Republic for the first time.
* January 3 – Third Carlist War &ndas ...
)
* December 8 –
Amand Landry, farmer and politician (d.
1877
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed ''Empress of India'' by the ''Royal Titles Act 1876'', introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
* January 8 – Great Sio ...
)
Full date unknown
*
John Kent, Premier of Newfoundland (d.
1872
Events
January–March
* January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years.
* February 2 – The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts on ...
)
Deaths
* March 23 –
Richard Dobie, an early Canadian businessman and a sometimes partner of
Benjamin Frobisher (born
1731
Events
January–March
* January 8 – An avalanche from the Skafjell mountain causes a massive wave in the Storfjorden fjord in Norway that sinks all boats that happen to be in the water at the time and kills people on both sho ...
)
References
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