1867

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 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1867

January 1 - The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky, becoming the longest suspension bridge in the world.
January 8 - African-American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.
January 11 - Benito Juárez becomes Mexican president again.
January 30 - Emperor Kōmei 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 Kōmei's son, Prince Mutsuhito becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan. End of the Late Tokugawa shogunate.
February 7 - West Virginia University is established in Morgantown, West Virginia.
February 17 - The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.

March University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign was established (opened 1 year later)
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 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.
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."

March 30: Russia bought by check.

April 1 - Strait Settlement of Singapore, formerly ruled from Calcutta, becomes a Crown Colony under the jurisdiction of the Colonial Office in London.
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 is crowned King of Hungary.
June 15 - Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode mine named in Montana.
June 19 - Firing squad executes Emperor Maximilian of Mexico.

July 1 - The Dominion of Canada is created by the British North America Act.
July 2 - First elevated railroad in the United States begins service in New York.
July 9 - Queen's Park F.C., the oldest league team in Scotland, founded.
July 17 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established as the first dental school in the United States.
September 2 - Emperor Meiji of Japan marries Empress Shōken (née Masako Ichijō). The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko.
September 4 - Sheffield Wednesday F.C. founded at the Adelphi Hotel in Sheffield.
September 30 - The United States takes control of Midway Island.
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.
November 15 - Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as The Grange).
November 23 - The so-called Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England for the murder of a policeman whilst attempting to rescue two Irish men from jail.
December 2 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

Publication of the first volume of Das Kapital by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Transition from the Edo period to the Meiji period in Japanese history.
Pierre Michaux invents the front wheel-driven velocipede, the first mass-produced bicycle.
Otto von Bismarck organises a North German Confederation under the leadership of Prussia.
Yellow fever kills 3093 in New Orleans.
War of the Triple Alliance in Paraguay.
Second Reform Bill by Disraeli enfranchises many working men and adds 938,000 to an electorate of 1,057,000 in England and Wales.
South African diamond fields discovered.
Fenian rising in Ireland.
Prohibition National Committee formed.
Wasps R.F.C. formed in Middlesex, England (see London Wasps and Wasps FC).
Gorse naturalised in New Zealand, soon becomes worst invasive weed.
At historic Fountain Point, Michigan, artesian water spring gushes continuously till present day.