WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1867
Find out what all happened February to December 1867

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Luxembourg gains its independence. (11. May 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)

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

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

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

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)