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
- 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 11, 1867 – The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris.
- March 29, 1867 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
- April 9, 1867 – Alaska purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
- May 3, 1867 – The Hudson’s Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
- 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.
- 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 28, 1867 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
- October 14, 1867 – The 15th and the last military Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan, returning his power to the Emperor of Japan and thence to the re-established civil government of Japan
- October 18, 1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
- 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 9, 1867 – Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
- December 2, 1867 – At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
- December 4, 1867 – Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).
- December 28, 1867 – United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
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