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1867 Historical Event(s)
January 31, 1867
– Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria
March 11, 1867
– The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris.
May 3, 1867
– The Hudson’s Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
June 15, 1867
– Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana.
August 28, 1867
– The United States takes possession of the, at this point unoccupied, Midway Atoll.
September 28, 1867
– The United States takes control of Midway Island.
October 23, 1867
– 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
November 3, 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).
November 23, 1867
– The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
December 13, 1867
– Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.
Who Were Born On 1867?
March 25, 1867
– Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (d. 1941)
May 3, 1867
– J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1944)
June 17, 1867
– Flora Finch, British-American silent-film comedienne (d. 1940)
July 24, 1867
– Fred Tate, English cricketer (d. 1943)
July 27, 1867
– Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (d. 1916)
August 22, 1867
– Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
September 14, 1867
– Charles Dana Gibson, American artist (d. 1944)
October 25, 1867
– Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (d. 1937)
December 26, 1867
– Phan Boi Chau, Vietnamese nationalist (d. 1940)