Year '1867' ('
MDCCCLXVII') was a
common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on Sunday of the of the 12-day slower
Julian calendar).
Events of 1867
January - March
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January 1 - The
John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge opens between
Cincinnati, Ohio and
Covington, Kentucky, becoming the longest suspension bridge in the world.
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January 8 -
African-American men granted the right to vote in the
District of Columbia.
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January 11 -
Benito Juárez becomes
Mexican president again.
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January 30 -
Emperor Kōmei dies.
Crown Prince Mutsuhito is expected to become the next
emperor of Japan.
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January 31 -
Maronite nationalist leader Karam leaves
Lebanon on board of a French ship for
Algeria.
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February 3 -
Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu abdicates, and the late
Emperor Kōmei's son, Prince Mutsuhito becomes
Emperor Meiji of Japan. End of the
Late Tokugawa shogunate.
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February 7 -
West Virginia University is established in
Morgantown, West Virginia.
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February 17 - The first ship passes through the
Suez Canal.
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February 19 - The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of
Rocky Mount, first settled in
1816 and named for a rocky mound at the base of the nearby Tar River falls.
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March 1 -
Nebraska is admitted as the 37th
U.S. state.
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March 16 - First publication of an article by
Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of
antiseptic surgery, in ''
The Lancet''.
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March 29 - The
British North America Act receives royal assent, forming the Dominion of
Canada in an event known as
Confederation. This unites the
Province of Canada (
Quebec and
Ontario),
New Brunswick, and
Nova Scotia as of
July 1.
Ottawa becomes the capital, and
John A. Macdonald becomes the Dominion's first
prime minister.
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March 30 -
Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million from
Alexander II of Russia, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by
United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this "
Seward's Folly."
April - June
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April 1 - Strait Settlement of
Singapore, formerly ruled from
Calcutta, becomes a
Crown Colony under the jurisdiction of the
Colonial Office in
London.
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May 29 - Austro-Hungarian agreement called
Ausgleich in German or
kiegyezés in Hungarian ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which established the
Austro-Hungarian Empire; on
June 8 Emperor
Francis Joseph was crowned King of Hungary.
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June 19 -
Firing squad executes Emperor
Maximilian of Mexico.
July - September
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July 1 - The
Dominion of Canada is created by the
British North America Act.
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July 2 - First elevated
railroad in the United States begins service in New York.
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July 9 -
Queen's Park F.C., the oldest league team in Scotland, founded.
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July 17 - In
Boston, Massachusetts, the
Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established as the first
dental school in the
United States.
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July 21 - Missionary
Thomas Baker is killed and eaten in
Viti Levu,
Fiji.
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September 2 -
Emperor Meiji of
Japan marries
Empress Shōken (née Masako Ichijō). The
Empress consort is thereafter known as ''Lady Haruko''.
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September 4 -
Sheffield Wednesday F.C. are founded at the
Adelphi Hotel in
Sheffield.
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September 30 - The
United States takes control of
Midway Island.
October - December
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November 15 - Former
Minnesota farmer
Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as
The Grange).
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November 23 - The so-called
Manchester Martyrs were hanged in
Manchester,
England for the murder of a policeman whilst attempting to rescue two Irish men from jail.
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October 21 - '
Manifest Destiny':
Medicine Lodge Treaty - Near
Medicine Lodge Creek, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern
Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires
Native American Plains tribes to relocate a reservation in western
Oklahoma.
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October 27 –
Giuseppe Garibaldi's troops march into
Rome.
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December 2 - In a
New York City theater, British author
Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the
United States.
Undated
★ Publication of the first volume of
Das Kapital by
Karl Marx.
★ First running of the
Belmont Stakes horse race in
Elmont, New York.
★ Transition from the
Edo period to the
Meiji period in
Japanese history.
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Pierre Michaux invents the front wheel-driven velocipede, the first mass-produced bicycle.
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Otto von Bismarck organises a North German Confederation under the leadership of
Prussia.
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Yellow fever kills 3093 in
New Orleans.
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War of the Triple Alliance in
Paraguay.
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Second Reform Bill by
Disraeli enfranchises many working men and adds 938,000 to an electorate of 1,057,000 in England and Wales.
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South African
diamond fields discovered.
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Fenian rising in
Ireland.
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Asa Mercer travels to East Coast to recruit more "
Mercer Girls" to
Seattle.
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Prohibition National Committee formed.
★ Wasps R.F.C. formed in
Middlesex,
England (see
London Wasps and
Wasps FC).
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Gorse naturalised in New Zealand, soon becomes worst invasive weed.
★ At historic
Fountain Point,
Michigan,
artesian water spring gushes continuously till present day.
★ A Japanese ship crosses the Pacific ocean for the first time, to San Francisco.
Births
January - June
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January 8 -
Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1961)
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January 17 -
Carl Laemmle, German-born film executive (d.
1939)
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January 18 -
Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet (d.
1916)
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January 20 -
Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d.
1944)
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January 21
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Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d.
1921)
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Maxime Weygand, French general (d.
1965)
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January 29 -
Carl L. Boeckmann Norwegian-American artist (d.
1923)
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February 3 -
Charles Henry Turner African American entomologist (d.
1923)
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February 7 -
Laura Elizabeth Wilder, née Ingalls, American children's author (d.
February 10,
1957)
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February 21 -
Otto Hermann Kahn, German-born millionaire and philanthropist (d.
1934)
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February 27 -
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Swedish composer (d.
1942)
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March 25 -
Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (d.
1957)
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March 29 -
Cy Young, baseball player (d.
1955)
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April 2 -
Eugen Sandow, German-born body builder and circus performer (d.
1925)
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April 7 -
Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (d.
1953)
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April 9 -
Chris Watson, third
Prime Minister of Australia (d.
1941)
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April 10 -
George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (d.
1935)
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April 11 -
Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools (d.
1928)
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April 13 -
Sammy Woods, English cricketer (d.
1931)
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April 16
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René Boylesve, French author (d.
1926)
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Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (d.
1912)
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April 23 -
Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1928)
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May 3 -
J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (d.
1944)
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May 7 -
Władysław Reymont, Polish writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1925)
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May 14 -
Kurt Eisner, German politician and publicist (d.
1919)
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May 26 -
Mary of Teck (d.
1953)
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June 4 -
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim,
President of Finland (d.
1951)
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June 8 -
Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d.
1959)
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June 28 -
Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1936)
July - December
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July 8 -
Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (d.
1945)
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July 10 -
Prince Maximilian of Baden,
Chancellor of Germany (d.
1929)
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July 18 -
Margeret'Molly'Brown, Titanic Survivor
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July 25 -
Alexander Rummler, American painter (d.
1959)
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July 27 -
Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (d.
1916)
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July 28 -
Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer (d.
1951)
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August 3 -
Stanley Baldwin,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d.
1947)
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August 9 -
Charles Ballantyne, Canadian politician (d.
1950)
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August 12 -
Edith Hamilton, German-born educator and author (d.
1963)
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August 14 -
John Galsworthy, English writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1933)
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August 22 -
Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d.
1939)
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September 28 -
Kiichiro Hiranuma, 35th
Prime Minister of Japan (d.
1952)
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October 25 -
Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (d.
1937)
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October 31 -
David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (d.
1911)
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November 7 -
Marie Curie, Polish-born scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry and
physics (d.
1934)
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December 5 -
Józef Piłsudski, Polish statesman andfield marshal (d.
1935)
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December 23 -
Madam C.J. Walker, first African-American millionaire (d.
1919)
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December 24 -
Kantaro Suzuki, 42nd
Prime Minister of Japan (d.
1948)
★ ''date unknown''
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Thomas Coward, ornithologist (d.
1933)
[1]
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Sam Mussabini, Sports coach
★ ''probable'' -
Scott Joplin, American musician and composer (d.
1917)
[2]
: ''See also .''
Deaths
January - June
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January 14 -
Jean Auguste Ingres, French painter (b.
1780)
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January 30 -
Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b.
1831)
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April 12 -
Davi Canabarro, Gaúcho rebel revolucionary(b.
1796)
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April 27 -
Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, after whom
Big Ben is named (b.
1802)
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May 12 -
Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b.
1795)
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May 23 -
William Crawshay II, industrialist (b.
1788)
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June 19 -
Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico (executed) (b.
1832)
July - December
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July 31 -
Benoît Fourneyron, French engineer and inventor of the turbine (b.
1802)
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August 25 -
Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist (b.
1791)
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August 31 -
Charles Baudelaire, French writer (b.
1821)
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September 10 -
Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (b.
1788)
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October 9 -
Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, composer (b.
1807)
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December 1 -
Filaret, Metropolitan of Moscow, Russian Orthodox leader (b.
1782)
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December 26. -
József Kossics, Catholic priest, writer, and ethnologist (b.
1788)
: ''See also .''
References
1. Altrincham History Society
2. A Biography of Scott Joplin
External links
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1867 Coin Pictures
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