Industrial Age · North America · Politics

1867

Maximilian Executed

June 19, 1867

The Habsburg prince whom Napoleon III had installed as emperor of Mexico was captured by Benito Juarez's republicans, tried, and shot by a firing squad on a hill outside Queretaro. Manet would paint it. Napoleon's Mexican adventure - and the last European attempt to plant a monarchy in the New World - ended in a ditch.

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Before and after in North America

Before: July 27, 1866: Transatlantic Cable
After: February 8, 1868: Fourteenth Amendment Ratified

Before and after in Politics

Before: December 24, 1865: Ku Klux Klan Founded
After: January 3, 1868: Meiji Restoration

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.