December 1867 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Dec 2 In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States

Dec 4 Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange)
Dec 18 Around 49 victims of "Angola Horror" train wreck burn to death in Angola, New York
Dec 27 Ontario & Quebec legislatures hold 1st meeting
Dec 28 United States claims Midway Island, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
Dec 29 1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Co, New York

Birthdays in History

Dec 5 Antti Aarne, Finnish folklorist, born in Pori, Finland (d. 1925)

Józef Piłsudski (1867-1935)

Dec 5 Father of the Second Polish Republic who served as its Chief of State (1918-22), Marshall of Poland and later its de facto leader (1926-35), born in Zułów, Russian Empire

Dec 13 Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian explorer and scientist (nominated 7 times for Nobel Prize), born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1917)
Dec 16 Amy Carmichael, missionary in Dohnavur, India (d. 1951)
Dec 18 Antoon van Welie, Dutch painter, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1956)
Dec 22 František Xaver Šalda, Czechoslovakian literary critic, born in Liberec, Czech Republic (d. 1937)
Dec 22 Joseph Maria Olbrich, Austrian architect (Wiener Sezession), born in Opava, Czech Republic (d. 1908)
Dec 22 Wilhelm Groener, German soldier & politician, born in Ludwigsburg, Germany (d. 1939)

Madam C. J. Walker (1867-1919)

Dec 23 African American entrepreneur (First American self-made female millionaire, Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company), born in Delta, Louisiana

Dec 24 Kantaro Suzuki, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan, born in Noda, Japan (d. 1948)
Dec 24 Manuel de Oliveira Lima, Brazilian writer & diplomat, born in Pernambuco, Brazil (d. 1928)
Dec 25 Alfred Kerr [Kempner], German-British writer, born in Breslau, Silesia (d. 1948)
Dec 30 Simon Guggenheim, American businessman and philanthropist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1941)

Deaths in History

Dec 6 Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist, dies at 73
Dec 10 Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai and anti-shogunate revolutionary, assassinated at 31
Dec 22 Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer who was one of the founders of modern projective geometry, dies at 79
Dec 22 Théodore Rousseau, French painter, dies at 55