Timeline November 1867

Events in November 1867 4

• 1867 Paris hosts the 1867 World's Fair Exposition Universelle showcases industry and culture The Exposition Universelle opened in Paris, drawing millions of visitors to displays of industrial machinery, art, and products from around the world. It featured early demonstrations of technologies including reinforced concrete and aluminum. The fair reinforced Paris's status as a center of international culture during the Second Empire.
• 1867 Battle of Mentana French and Papal forces halt Garibaldi's march on Rome Giuseppe Garibaldi led irregular volunteers in an attempt to seize Rome from the Papal States and complete Italian unification. A combined force of Papal troops and French reinforcements armed with new Chassepot rifles defeated Garibaldi's men at Mentana. Rome remained under papal control until 1870.
• 1867 – 1934 Marie Curie Nobel Pioneer Born Maria Skłodowska, she was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes (Physics and Chemistry).
• 1867 Tokugawa shogun surrenders political power Taisei Hokan returns authority to the emperor Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu offered to resign his political authority and return it to Emperor Meiji, an act known as Taisei Hokan. The move ended over two and a half centuries of shogunate rule and set the stage for the Meiji Restoration proclaimed in January 1868. It opened the way for Japan's rapid modernization.