The world's first coloured coin in circulation? Made in Canada 20 years ago — From the archives

In 1555 , Queen Mary of England launched a persecution campaign against Protestants that resulted in the deaths of more than 200 people.

In 1671 , New France intendant Jean Talon ordered all bachelors to marry one of the “King’s Girls ,” women sent from France to become brides for settlers and soldiers.

In 1879 , inventor Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric light bulb.

In 2010 , Russell Williams , the former colonel in charge at CFB Trenton , was sentenced to two concurrent life sentences with no possibility of parole for 25 years in the torture, rape and murders of Cpl . Marie-France Comeau and Jessica Lloyd .

In 2014 , Brian Bowman was elected as mayor of Winnipeg , becoming the first Indigenous mayor of a major Canadian city.

In 2018 , despite Mexican efforts to stop them at the border, about 2,000 Central American migrants swam or rafted across a river.

Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu of Canada was named as the winner of the $ 45,000 first prize in the Frederic Chopin competition in Poland .

In 2021 , the provinces and the federal government agreed on a new national vaccine passport.

British authorities said a man had been charged with murder and preparing acts of terrorism in the stabbing death of a Conservative lawmaker.