WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1867
Find out what all happened January to August 1867

Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. (30. March 1867)

Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro. (19. June 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. (17. July 1867)

The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris. (11. March 1867)

Singapore becomes a British crown colony. (1. April 1867)

The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire. (29. May 1867)

Alaska Purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska. (9. April 1867)

Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital. (1. March 1867)

Seventy years of Holy See-United States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984. (28. February 1867)

Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1. (29. March 1867)

The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll. (28. August 1867)

Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria. (31. January 1867)

African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. (8. January 1867)

Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana. (15. June 1867)

The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act. (2. March 1867)

Luxembourg gains its independence. (11. May 1867)

Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards. (13. February 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. (1. July 1867)