Timeline
- 1503
- Portuguese Visit Placentia Bay
- 1630
- French settled Plaisance (Placentia), Petite Plaisance (Argentia), and Pointe Verte (Point Verde)
- 1831
- Father Pelagius Nowlan established Holy Rosary Parish and became first Parish Priest
- 1835
- Bishop Michael Anthony Fleming visits the Parish
- 1871
- Father Pelagius Nowlan died in Little Placentia
- 1871
- Father Robert Brennan became Parish Priest
- 1895
- Father St. John becomes Parish Priest
- 1895
- Name of Little Placentia unofficially changed to Argentia
- 1901
- Little Placentia's name officially changed to Argentia
- 1911
- Father John Ashley became Parish Priest
- 1911
- Population of Great Placentia is 1,315
- 1918
- Father Thomas Devereaux became Parish Priest for several months
- 1918
- Father J.D. Savin became Parish Priest
- 1921
- Population of Argentia was 392 (not including Marquise, Pond Head, Point Mall, Argentia Crossing, Long Hill etc.
- 1921
- Population of Marquise was 262
- 1921
- Population of Long Hill was 3
- 1921
- Population of Point Mall was 59
- 1922
- Father Adrian Joyce Dee became Parish Priest and held position until 1951
- 1941
- U.S. Marines occupied Argentia
- 1941
- U.S. Flag formally raised
- July 15, 1941
- Naval Operating Base commissioned
- August 10, 1941
- Atlantic Charter Meeting between Pres. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill was held aboard U.S. and British vessels at anchor within Ship Harbour
- August 28, 1941
- Naval Air Station commissioned
- 1942
- USS Pollux and USS ''Truxtun'' (DD-229) were lost when wrecked near St. Lawrence and Lawn on their way to Argentia
- 1942
- U.S. Army Base, Fort McAndrew, established at Argentia
- Summer of 1942
- U.S. Army Air Units arrive at base in Argentia and assisted in anti-submarine patrols
- February 1943
- The first B.O.Q. building at the Naval Air Station burns to the ground in disastrous million dollar fire
- 1944
- U.S. Atlantic Fleet Task Force 22 used Argentia extensively in anti-submarine operations
- 1944
- Captured German weather ship, the EXTERNSTEIN was brought into Argentia by Commodore Rose
- May 6, 1945
- European War ends
- 1945
- Rear Admiral Edward H. Smith relieved as Commander, Task Force 24, by Rear Admiral E.G. Rose
- 1945
- Two German submarines captured in Europe stop at Argentia en route to the States. U-Boats, sailed on the surface by prize crews, put in for fuel, repairs, provisions, and stores
- 1956
- Comedian Bill Cosby is Stationed at Argentia
- 1994
- US Base Officially Closed
- 1999
- B.O.Q. Implosion happens
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