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1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
Events
January 1 - The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky , becoming the longest suspension bridge in the worldJanuary 8 - African-American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia January 11 - Benito Juárez becomes Mexican president againJanuary 30 - Emperor Komei of Japan dies. Crown Prince Mutsuhito is expected to become the next Emperor of Japan .January 31 – Maronite nationalist leader Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria February 3 - Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu abdicates, and the late Emperor Komei 's son, Prince Mutshuhito becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan . End of the Late Tokugawa shogunate .February 17 - The first ship passes through the Suez Canal March 1 - Nebraska is admitted as the 37th U.S. state .March 16 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery , in The Lancet 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 , 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 .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 1 - Strait Settlement of Singapore , fomerly ruled from Calcutta , becomes a Crown Colony under the jurisdiction of the Colonial Office in London May 29 - Austro-Hungarian agreement called Ausgleich ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which established the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy ; on June 8 Emperor Francis Joseph was crowned King of HungaryJune 19 - Firing squad executes Emperor Maximilian of Mexico July 1 - Canada Day , recognizing the creation of Canada by the British North America Act .July 17 - In Boston, Massachusetts , the Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established as the first dental school in the United States .July 21 - Missionary Thomas Baker killed and eaten in Viti Levu , Fiji September 2 - Mutsuhito , the Meiji Emperor of Japan marries Ichijo Masako. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko.September 30 - The United States takes control of Midway Island .November 15 - Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange movement ).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 .October 27 – Giuseppe Garibaldi 's troops march into Rome December 2 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States .
Births
January 8 - Emily Greene Balch , American writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1961 )January 17 - Carl Laemmle , German-born film executive (d. 1939 )January 18 - Rubén Darío , Nicaraguan poet (d. 1916 )January 20 - Yvette Guilbert , French singer and actress (d. 1944 )January 21 - Ludwig Thoma , German writer (d. 1921 )January 21 - Maxime Weygand , French general (d. 1965 )
February 7 - Laura Ingalls Wilder , American author (d. 1957 )February 21 - Otto Hermann Kahn , German-born millionaire and philanthropist (d. 1934 )March 25 - Arturo Toscanini , Italian conductor (d. 1957 )March 29 - Cy Young , baseball player (d. 1955 )April 2 - Eugen Sandow , German-born body builder and circus performer (d. 1925 )April 7 - Holger Pedersen , Dutch linguist (d. 1953 )April 9 - Chris Watson , third Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941 )April 13 - Sammy Woods , English cricketer (d. 1931 )April 16 - René Boylesve , French author (d. 1926 )April 16 - Wilbur Wright , American aviation pioneer (d. 1912 )
May 3 - J.T. Hearne English cricketer (d. 1944 )May 7 - Władysław Reymont , Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925 )May 14 - Kurt Eisner , German politician and publicist (d. 1919 )May 26 - Mary of Teck (d. 1953 )June 4 - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim , President of Finland (d. 1951 )June 8 - Frank Lloyd Wright , American architect (d. 1959 )June 28 - Luigi Pirandello , Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936 )July 8 - Käthe Kollwitz , German artist (d. 1945 )July 27 - Enrique Granados , Spanish composer (d. 1916 )July 28 - Charles Dillon Perrine , American-born astronomer (d. 1951 )August 12 - h Hamilton , German-born educator and author (d. 1963 )August 14 - John Galsworthy , English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1933 )August 22 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner , Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939 )September 28 - Kiichiro Hiranuma , 35th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952 )October 25 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki , Polish general (d. 1937 )October 31 - David Graham Phillips , American journalist and novelist (d. 1911 )November 7 - Marie Curie , Polish-born scientist, Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry and physics (d. 1934 )December 23 - Madame C. J. Walker , first African-American millionaire (d. 1919 )December 24 - Kantaro Suzuki , 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948 )
Deaths
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