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- 1763 - France cedes its North American possessions to Britain by the Treaty of Paris.
- October, 1763 - Royal Proclamation imposes British institutions on Québec.
- 1763 - Frontier warfare during the American Revolution
- 1763 - Pontiac's Rebellion and Alliance.
- 1764 - James Murray becomes civil governor of Québec, but his attempts to appease French Canadians are disliked by British merchants.
- 1750 - Ojibwa begin to emerge as a distinct tribal amalgamation of smaller independent bands.
- 1750 - German immigrants begin to arrive in numbers at Halifax.
- 1768 - Guy Carleton succeeds Murray as governor of Québec.
- June 22, 1774 - British Parliament Passes Quebec Act. Carleton's recommendations are instituted; Act introduces British criminal law but retains French civil law and guarantees religious freedom for Roman Catholics. The Act's geographical claims were so great that it helped precipitate the American Revolution.
- 1774 - **Samuel Hearne builds Cumberland House
- 1775 - Hurricane Hits Grand Banks, Newfoundland - up to 4,000 killed
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War begins; the Americans Invade Canada.
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Fort St. Jean
- November 13, 1775 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Montreal as Americans under Richard Montgomery easily capture Montréal.
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of St. John's
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Ticonderoga
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War - Benedict Arnold's Expedition to Quebec
- December 31, 1775 - **Carleton Defeats Americans at the Battle of Quebec
- May 6, 1776 - American Revolutionary War - British fleet arrives at Quebec, lifting the American siege. Guy Carleton is later knighted.
- May 19, 1776 - American Revolutionary War - George Forster, with 40 regulars and 200 Indians, defeats 400 American invaders at the Battle of the Cedars, a rebel outpost 64 km west of Montréal. Les Cèdres, Québec
- 1776 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Fort Cumberland
- 1776 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Trois-Rivières
- 1776 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Valcour Island
- 1776 - American Revolutionary War - Ile Aux Noix
- 1776 - American Revolutionary War - Sorrell River
- 1776 - American Revolutionary War - Vandreuil
- April 1, 1776 - First Loyalists Arrive
- June 16, 1776 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Chambly
- October 19, 1776 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Chambly
- 1777 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Ticonderoga
- 1777 - American Revolutionary War - Saratoga Campaign
- March 29, 1778 - On the last of three voyages to the west coast, Captain James Cook claims Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island for the British, and travels almost as far north as the Bering Strait. (Mar. 29-Apr.26).
- May 24, 1779 - **Montréal Fur Traders and Merchants Found the North West Company, with 16 shares held by 9 different partnerships; the NWC will let the partners spread their risk to do battle with the Hudson's Bay Company in the far west.
- February 15, 1781 - **William Twiss Builds North America's First Lock Canal.
- 1783 - American Revolutionary War ends.
- 1783 - border between Canada and the U.S. is accepted from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake of the Woods.
- May 18, 1783 - **First Loyalists Reach Saint John, New Brunswick
- 1783 - Thousands of United Empire Loyalists arrive in Nova Scotia and Quebec. Loyalists are identified as those American colonists of British, Dutch, Irish, Scottish and other origins, and others who had remained loyal to their King during the American Revolution and were behind British lines by 1783. (Those who arrive after 1783 are called Late Loyalists.)
- 1783 - Pennsylvania Germans begin moving into modern-day southwestern Ontario, then southwestern Québec.
- 1784 - With the United Empire Loyalists swelling the northern Nova Scotia population, Nova Scotia is partitioned and the the province of New Brunswick is created.
- 1783 - Thousands of Loyalists land in along the St. Lawrence River, the Bay of Quinte and at Niagara, establishing permanent settlements and the multicultural roots of modern-day Ontario.
- 1785 - City of Saint John, New Brunswick is incorporated.
- 1785 - Fredericton opens a Provincial Academy of Arts and Sciences, the germ of the University of New Brunswick (1859). Fredericton, New Brunswick
- 1789 - **North West Company partner Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Beaufort Sea, following what would later be named the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean.
- August 24, 1791 - Constitutional Act of 1791 proclaimed at Québec; with western Québec filling with English-speaking Loyalists, the Act divides Québec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada (modern-day Ontario and Quebec); each province with own legislature and governor.
- May 29, 1792 - **George Vancouver's Ship Discovery Sails into Vancouver Harbour
- September 17, 1792 - **Simcoe Convenes First Upper Canada Legislature
- July 20, 1793 - **Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific at Dean Channel
- November 19, 1794 - American diplomat John Jay oversees the signing of Jay's Treaty between the U.S. and Britain. It promises British evacuation of the Ohio Valley forts and marks the beginning of international arbitration to settle boundary disputes.
- December 28, 1795 - Upper Canada Governor John Graves Simcoe orders the Royal Engineers to start building Yonge Street, a 48 km portage road from the town of York to Holland Landing on Lake Simcoe.
- 1795 - **The Oak Island Mystery comes to light as two teenagers discover strange diggings on an island in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia.
- 1796 - York becomes the capital of Upper Canada.
- 1797 - David Thompson joins the North West Company as a surveyor and mapmaker, eventually surveying hundreds of thousands of square miles of western North America.
- 1798 - New North West Company formed to compete with the North West Company; nicknamed the XY Company from the way it differentiates its bales from those of its competitor.
- 1802 - Alexander Mackenzie is knighted and becomes a member of the XY Company.
- 1803 - The XY Company is reorganized under Alexander Mackenzie's name.
- 1804 - The XY Company is absorbed by the North West Company.
- 1804 - Schooner HMS Speedy lost between Presqu'ile, Ontario and Newcastle, Ontario - 20-39 drowned, including many of the Upper Canadian elite.
- 1806 - Le Canadien, a patriotic Québec newspaper, is founded.
- 1806 - Limits to Power - Colonial governors place limits on how long elected assemblies can stay in power, requiring them to hold regular elections.
- 1807 - Slavery is abolished in British colonies.
- 1807 - **David Thompson Crosses the Rockies
- July 2, 1808 - **Norwester Simon Fraser Descends the Fraser River
- August 19, 1809 - **John Molson Launches Steamboat Accomodation
- May 30, 1811 - **Lord Selkirk Granted Land in Red River for a Colony
- June 18, 1812 - War of 1812 - U.S. declares war on Britain,
- July 11, 1812 - War of 1812 - Americans under General William Hull invade Canada from Detroit.
- October 13, 1812 - War of 1812 - **British and Canadians Victorious at Queenston Heights
- August 30, 1812 - **Miles Macdonnell Proclaims the Founding of the Red River Settlement, as the first Red River settlers arrive to take up lands granted to Lord Selkirk by the Hudson's Bay Company.
- 1812 - War of 1812 - Battle of Lacolle Mills
- 1812 - War of 1812 - Raid on Gananoque
- 1812 - War of 1812 - Siege of Fort Erie
- April 27, 1813 - War of 1812 - **Americans Capture York.
- June 5, 1813 - War of 1812 - **British and Canadians Win Battle of Stoney Creek
- June 22, 1813 - War of 1812 - **Laura Secord Warns British of American Attack.
- June 23, 1813 - War of 1812 - **Iroquois Victory at Battle of Beaver Dams.
- September 10, 1813 - War of 1812 - Battle of Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie - an American victory gives them control over western Upper Canada.
- October 5, 1813 - War of 1812 - - **Tecumseh Dies in Battle Against the Americans at the Battle of Moraviantown (Battle of the Thames) - an American victory.
- October 26, 1813 - War of 1812 - **De Salaberry Turns Back Americans at Battle of Châteauguay - Canadian victory with French-Canadian militia.
- November 11, 1813 - War of 1812 - **Americans Beaten Back at Battle of Crysler's Farm - Canadian victory with English-Canadian militia.
- December 10, 1813 - War of 1812 - **Willcocks Burns Niagara - The Canadian Volunteers led by Joseph Willcocks put the town of Newark (Niagara) to the torch.
- 1813 - War of 1812 - Aux Canards River
- 1813 - War of 1812 - Battle of Fort George
- 1813 - War of 1812 - Detroit River
- 1813 - War of 1812 - Massequoi Village
- 1813 - War of 1812 - Raid on Elizabethtown
- July 5, 1814 - **British Retreat at Battle of Chippawa
- 1814 - War of 1812 - Battle of Cook's Mill
- 1814 - War of 1812 - Battle of Lacolle Mills
- 1814 - War of 1812 - Battle of Longwoods
- July 25, 1814 - War of 1812 - **British Win Firefight at the Battle of Lundy's Lane
- 1814 - War of 1812 - Battle of Odelltown
- 1814 - War of 1812 - Capture of Fort Erie
- 1814 - War of 1812 - Lyon's Creek
- 1814 - War of 1812 - Siege of Fort Erie
- 1814 - War of 1812 - Skirmish at Malcolm's Mills
- 1814 - War of 1812 - Sturgeon's Creek (Point au Playe)
- December 24, 1814 - War of 1812 - **Treaty of Ghent Ends the War of 1812
