1867 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1867?
- January 31, 1867 – Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria
- February 13, 1867 – Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels’s primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
- March 1, 1867 – Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
- March 2, 1867 – The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
- March 29, 1867 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
- April 1, 1867 – Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
- May 11, 1867 – Luxembourg gains its independence.
- May 29, 1867 – The Austro-Hungarian agreement known as Ausgleich (“the Compromise”) is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire; on June 8 Emperor Franz Joseph is crowned King of Hungary.
- June 15, 1867 – Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana.
- June 19, 1867 – Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
- July 1, 1867 – The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada; Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada.
- July 17, 1867 – Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston. It was the first dental school in the U.S.
- August 28, 1867 – The United States takes possession of the, at this point unoccupied, Midway Atoll.
- September 2, 1867 – Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she is called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.
- October 21, 1867 – Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty – Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate a reservation in western Oklahoma.
- November 3, 1867 – Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope’s Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
- November 23, 1867 – The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
- December 2, 1867 – At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
- December 13, 1867 – Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.
- December 28, 1867 – United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
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