In 1867 the OLB is first handed over to Eelco Verwijs. These things also happened that year.

[Helgiteut]

Hopefully this will help to see how the OLB was seen in light of world happenings. So far the following is from WIKIPEDIA.com, but I plan to look into many of these events, if only to gain greater knowledge of the time period in which the OLB was first brought to light outside the family of Over'der'Linden. Feel free to share other pertinant events from that time.

January 8 – African-American men are granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.
February 19 – Battle of Inlon River: The Qing Dynasty defeats the Nien rebels in Hubei, China.
February 28 – After almost 20 years (1848), the United States Congress forbids taxpayer funding of diplomatic envoys to the Holy See (Vatican), and breaks off relations. Funding resumes, along with relations, in 1984.
March 5 – The Fenian Rising breaks out in Ireland.
March 23 – William III of the Netherlands accepts an offer of 5,000,000 guilders from Napoleon III for the sale of Luxembourg, leading to the Luxembourg Crisis.
April 1–November 3 – Exposition Universelle, an international exhibition in Paris. Among the visitors is Abdülaziz, making the first visit of a Sultan of the Ottoman Empire to Western Europe.
April 28 – I.C. Sorosis, the first women's fraternity (sorority) founded upon the men's fraternity model, with Pi Beta Phi as its motto, is founded at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois. In 1888, the motto becomes the name of the organization.
May 1 – The first political May Day march takes place in Chicago.
May 29 -The Austro-Hungarian Compromise (called Ausgleich in German or kiegyezés in Hungarian (The Compromise)) is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire; on June 8 Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is crowned King of Hungary.
June 19 – A firing squad executes Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and two of his lieutenants.
July – The Reverend Thomas Baker, a Wesleyan Methodist missionary is cooked and eaten by Navatusila tribespeople at Nabutautau, Fiji, together with eight of his local followers, the last missionary in that country to suffer cannibalism.
July 1
Canadian Confederation: The British North America Act of 29 March comes into force, creating the Dominion of Canada, the first independent dominion in the British Empire.
The Constitution of the North German Confederation comes into effect, creating a confederation of states, under the leadership of Prussia and Otto von Bismarck.
August 15 – Benjamin Disraeli's Second Reform Act enfranchises many men in cities for the first time, and adds 938,000 to an electorate of 1,057,000 in England and Wales.
September 14 – The first volume of Das Kapital (later translated into English as Capital) is published by Karl Marx.
September 30 – The United States takes control of Midway Island.
October 12 – End of penal transportation from Britain as the last convict ship, the Hougoumont, departs from Portsmouth on an 89-day passage to Western Australia. 62 Fenians are among the transportees.
October 27 – Italian unification: Giuseppe Garibaldi's troops march into Rome.
November 9 – The last shōgun of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, tenders his resignation to Emperor Meiji
November 23 – The three 'Manchester Martyrs' are hanged in England for the murder of a policeman whilst attempting to rescue two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from imprisonment on 18 September.
December 2 – In a New York City theater, English author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

South African diamond fields are discovered.
The Prohibition National Committee is formed in the United States.
The Swedish famine of 1867–1869 begins.
Yellow fever kills 3,093 in New Orleans.
Paraguayan War still rages.

1867–1873 – Chinese, Scandinavian and Irish immigrants lay 30,000 miles (48,000 km) of railroad tracks in the USA.

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The world situation was anything but dull or stale in that year!

[Helgiteut]

Three "nations" created: Canada, Germany, and Italy.

[Helgiteut]

The world situation was anything but dull or stale in that year!

Very spicy history, and the beginning of the world as we now know it.