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French explorer Jacques Cartier was the first European to ascend the St. Lawrence Gulf, claiming "Canada" for France to create a dominion known as New France. Cartier and his crew first visited in the 1535 an Iroquois settlement of 500 persons called Stadacona, in a site located in present-day Quebec City. He came back in 1541 with some 400 persons...

The British and French had co-existed in North America, but the threat of French expansion into the Ohio Valley caused the British to attempt to eradicate New France from the map completely. In the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, the city was permanently lost by the French. In 1763, France formally ceded its claims to le Canada, and Quebec City's ...

In 1917, the construction of the Quebec Bridge, connecting the north and south banks of the St. Lawrence River, was finished. To this day, it is the longest cantilever bridge in the world, though two collapses of the centre of the bridge during construction cost over 80 workers their lives. During World War II, two Allied Forces conferences were he...

In 1984, Opération Nez rouge was founded in Quebec City. It has been imitated in many European countries. In April 2001, Quebec City played host to the Summit of the Americas where the Free Trade Area of the Americas was discussed. This conference was expected to be filled with confrontations between the police and anti-globalization groups, which ...