Northwest Territories
Territory of Canada
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| March 2025 | Mark Carney became the leader of the federal Liberal Party and Prime Minister-designate of Canada. |
| December 7 2023 | R.J. Simpson was selected as the new premier by his fellow MLAs following the general election. |
| November 14 2023 | The Northwest Territories held its general election to set the membership of the legislative assembly. |
| February 8 2022 | Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh by-election conducted, with Richard Edjericon winning the seat after Steve Norn's resignation in the Northwest Territories' non-partisan consensus government |
| 2021 | Yellowknife was recorded as having 20,340 residents in the Canadian Census, with a specified land area. It remains the only city in the Northwest Territories. |
| 2021 | Liquor sale restrictions previously enforced by the communities of Fort Simpson were lifted. |
| 2021 | Census revealed a significant shift in religious demographics: Christianity decreased to 55.2%, while population with no religious affiliation more than doubled to 39.8%. |
| 2021 | Census reveals significant shift in religious demographics: Christian population decreased to 55.2%, while those with no religious affiliation increased to 39.8%. |
| July 27 2021 | Monfwi by-election held, with Jane Weyallon Armstrong winning the seat after Jackson Lafferty's resignation in the Northwest Territories' non-partisan consensus government |
| June 30 2021 | Recorded the highest temperature ever in Fort Smith and the Northwest Territories, marking a significant climate event. |
| 2019 | Kieron Testart planned to organize a 'Liberal Democratic' slate of ideologically aligned MLA candidates for the Northwest Territories general election, but abandoned the plan after it was leaked to the press. |
| 2019 | The 19th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly was established, covering the political representation period from 2019 to 2023. |
| 2018 | MLA Kieron Testart proposed an amendment to the territorial Elections Act to introduce party politics in the legislative assembly, which received no support and was dropped. |
| 2017 | The gross domestic product of the Northwest Territories reached C$4.856 billion. |
| 2016 | Census data showed Behchokǫ̀ as the largest First Nations community with 1,874 total residents, of which 1,696 (90.9%) were First Nations. |
| 2016 | Census data revealed population details for Northwest Territories, including Yellowknife's population of 19,569, Hay River's 3,528, Inuvik's 3,243, Fort Smith's 2,542, and Behchokǫ̀'s 1,874. |
| 2014 | House of Commons electoral district name changes from Western Arctic to Northwest Territories. |
| 2013 | Mark Carney was appointed as the Governor of the Bank of England, becoming the first non-British person to hold this prestigious position. |
| 2012 | Completion of the Deh Cho Bridge, which provided Yellowknife with its first all-season road access to Canada's highway network, ending the previous reliance on seasonal ferry and ice road crossings of the Mackenzie River. |
| 2010 | Rio Tinto produces 3.9 million carats of diamonds, representing 28.5% of its total diamond production from the Diavik Diamond Mine. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles List of Northwest Territories by-elections, Northwest Territories Liquor and Cannabis Commission, Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories, List of municipalities in the Northwest Territories & Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.