About the day » Thursday December 26, 1867Calender converter

• Anna Koppe, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1949)
• Alida Maria Christina UNKEL, Amsterdam (Noord-Holland) († 1938)
• Abraham Johannes Hanzon, Boskoop († 1869)
• Anna Maria de Visser, 's-Heer Arendskerke
• Anna Alberdina Wilhemina SCHEER, Loontin (Woiwodschap West-Pommeren) Duitsland
• Alphonse Gustave Jérôme VANHERSECKE, Esquelbecq... Hauts de France
• Adolphe BECKX => DE LEGLISE, Vorst/Brussel (B)
• Adriana Cornelia Vekemans, Goirle († 1948)
• Aagtje Huizinga, Uithuizen,, Groningen, Nederland († 1942)
• Akke AGRICOLA, Oldeouwer(Friesland) († 1956)

• Antje Daarnhouwer (8), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Scheffers (59), Haarlem, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Gloudemans (53), Nuland, Nederland
• * Willempje Slob (80), Hoornaar
• Albertine Maria von Neipperg (50), Fontanellato, Italie
• Arie Snel (45), Aarlanderveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• alexandrine ABRASSART (82), Dour (Belgium)
• Arie Snel (46), Aarlanderveen
• Aaltje He(A)rmsen (82), Rheden
• Albertine Maria van Neipperg (50), Parma, Emilia-Romagna

• 1853 » René Bazin, French author and academic († 1932)
• 1854 » José Yves Limantour, Mexican financier and politician, Mexican Secretary of Finance († 1935)
• 1859 » William Stephens, American lawyer and politician, 24th Governor of California († 1944)
• 1863 » Charles Pathé, French record producer, co-founded Pathé Records († 1957)
• 1864 » Yun Chi-ho, Korean activist and politician († 1945)
• 1867 » Phan Bội Châu, Vietnamese activist († 1940)
• 1869 » Mathieu Cordang, Dutch cyclist († 1942)
• 1872 » Norman Angell, English journalist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1873 » Thomas Wass, English cricketer († 1953)
• 1874 » Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi theologian and academic († 1965)

• 1863 » Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Heinrich Schliemann, German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
• 1923 » Dietrich Eckart, German journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Jan Letzel, Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (b. 1880)
• 1929 » Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860)
• 1931 » Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)
• 1933 » Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875)
• 1933 » Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Wilhelmus
15. Hendrikus
16. Klaas

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Trijntje
13. Neeltje
14. Antje
15. Jacoba
16. Petronella

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• February 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
• March 1 » Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
• March 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
• May 15 » Canadian Bank of Commerce opens for business in Toronto, Ontario. The bank would later merge with Imperial Bank of Canada to become what is CIBC in 1961.
• May 29 » The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.

The temperature on December 26, 1867 was about 3.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.