WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1867
Find out what all happened April to December 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)

Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana. (15. June 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 to a reservation in western Oklahoma. (21. October 1867)

Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange). (4. December 1867)

72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate. (23. October 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)

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. (2. September 1867)

United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day. (18. October 1867)

Luxembourg gains its independence. (11. May 1867)

At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States. (2. December 1867)

A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, England, killing six. (13. December 1867)

The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody. (23. November 1867)

United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits. (28. December 1867)

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

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

Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario. (28. September 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)

Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration. (9. November 1867)

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

The Angola Horror train wreck occurred. (18. December 1867)