Timeline August 1867

Events in August 1867 4

• 1791 – 1867 Michael Faraday (1791-1867) Died 25 August 1867, aged 75 Faraday was a British scientist whose experiments on electromagnetism and electrochemistry laid the groundwork for the electric motor and generator. He discovered electromagnetic induction and formulated the laws of electrolysis. His lectures and papers made him one of the most influential experimental scientists of the 19th century.
• 1821 – 1867 Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) Died 31 August 1867, aged 46 Baudelaire was a French poet whose 1857 collection Les Fleurs du mal scandalized readers and reshaped modern poetry. His writing on urban life, sensation, and the darker aspects of experience influenced Symbolist and later modernist writers. He also worked as an influential art and literary critic.
• 1867 Second Reform Act expands the British electorate Franchise extended to urban working-class men The Reform Act of 1867, passed under Benjamin Disraeli's Conservative government, roughly doubled the electorate by extending voting rights to many male urban householders and lodgers in England and Wales. It marked a significant step toward wider democratic representation in Britain, though women and most rural workers remained excluded.
• 1867 United States claims Midway Atoll Captain William Reynolds annexes the islands Captain William Reynolds of the USS Lackawanna formally took possession of Midway Atoll for the United States, marking one of the country's first overseas territorial acquisitions beyond North America. The atoll later became a key Pacific naval and refueling station. It gained lasting fame as the site of the pivotal 1942 naval battle.