WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO NOVEMBER 1867
Find out what all happened May to November 1867

Luxembourg gains its independence. (11. May 1867)

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

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

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)

72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate. (23. October 1867)

Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario. (28. September 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). (3. November 1867)

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

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

The United States takes control of Midway Island. (28. September 1867)

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

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