Important Historical Events of the year 1867, Year 1867 in History

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List of 1867 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1867

What happened in the year 1867?

Date	Event
January 8, 1867	The United States Congress passes the bill to allow African American men the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
January 15, 1867	Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
February 13, 1867	Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
February 17, 1867	The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
March 1, 1867	Nebraska is admitted as the 37th U.S. state.
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 Canada on July 1.
March 30, 1867	Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about two cents/acre ($4.19/km2), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
April 1, 1867	Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
May 29, 1867	The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
June 8, 1867	Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
June 19, 1867	Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
July 1, 1867	The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
July 17, 1867	Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
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, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.
September 4, 1867	Sheffield Wednesday Football Club are founded at the Adelphi Hotel in Sheffield becoming one of the first football clubs in the world.
September 28, 1867	Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
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	The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in the western Indian Territory.
November 3, 1867	Giuseppe 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 9, 1867	The Tokugawa shogunate hands back power to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
November 18, 1867	An earthquake strikes the Virgin Islands, triggering the largest tsunami witnessed in the Caribbean and killing dozens.
November 23, 1867	The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.
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 13, 1867	A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing 12 people and injuring 50.
December 18, 1867	A magnitude 7.0 earthquakes strikes off the coast of Taiwan, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 580 people.