WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1867
Find out what all happened August to December 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits. (28. December 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 United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll. (28. August 1867)

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

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

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