Historical Events In 1867
May 01 Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration
May 20 British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage
May 03 The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
May 27 The birth of Arnold Bennett, English novelist
May 07 Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
May 20 Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria
May 11 Treaty of London drawn, concerning Luxembourg
May 23 Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond MO (2 die, $4,000 taken)
May 05 Battle of Pueblo; Méxicans defeat Maximilian's forces (Cinco de Mayo)
Jan 12 Leo Tolstoy's "Smert Ioonna Groznogo," premieres in St Petersburg
Jan 29 The birth of Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish writer
Jan 07 Private Timothy O'Hea is awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery in 1866, protecting the lives of 800 emigrants on a Grand Trunk train menaced by a fire in a boxcar carrying explosives. This is the only VC awarded for a brave deed not done in the face of the enemy
Jan 08 Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto
Jan 07 Private Timothy O'Hea is awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery in 1866, protecting the lives of 800 emigrants on a Grand Trunk train menaced by a fire in a boxcar carrying explosives. This is the only VC awarded for a brave deed not done in the face of the enemy
Feb 01 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
Feb 03 Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912)
Feb 14 Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company issues first policy
Feb 06 Peabody Fund forms to promote Black education in South
Feb 09 Nebraska becomes 37th US state
Feb 13 Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna
Apr 24 In Manhattan, Kansas a 5.1 quake is the largest historical earthquake in Kansas.
Apr 25 Tokyo is opened for foreign trade
Apr 24 Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars
Apr 08 International Exhibition opens in Paris
Apr 01 Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama
Apr 16 The birth of Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer
Apr 08 Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama
Apr 01 International Exhibition opens in Paris
Nov 04 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall
Nov 12 Mt. Vesuvius erupts.
Nov 25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
Nov 26 The first ever woman to vote in a British election casts her vote, due to a mistake in the electoral register
Nov 07 The birth of Marie Curie, First woman to win the Nobel prize for physics
Sep 09 Luxembourg gains independence
Sep 13 Gen E R S Canby orders SC courts to impanel blacks jurors
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