1867 - What happened in 1867 ?

January 1867

Tuesday 08:

African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.

Friday 11:

Benito Juárez becomes Mexican president again.

Thursday 31:

Maronite nationalist leader Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria

February 1867

Sunday 03:

Prince Mutsuhito becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan.

Friday 08:

The Ausgleich results in the establishment of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary,

Sunday 17:

The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.

March 1867

Friday 01:

Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.

Saturday 16:

First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.

Friday 29:

Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.

Saturday 30:

Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, 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 1867

Monday 01:

Singapore becomes British crown colony.

Tuesday 09:

Alaska purchase: By a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.

Tuesday 23:

William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine which shows animated pictures by mounting a strip of drawings in a wheel.

May 1867

Friday 03:

The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.

Saturday 11:

Luxembourg gains its independence.

Wednesday 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 Hungary

June 1867

Wednesday 19:

Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.

Thursday 27:

The Bank of California opens its doors

July 1867

Monday 01:

The British North America Act takes effect as the constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation; John A. Macdonald sworn as first Prime Minister.

August 1867

Wednesday 28:

The United States occupies Midway Island.

September 1867

Monday 02:

Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor of Japan marries Ichijo Masako. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko.

Saturday 28:

The United States takes control of Midway Island.

October 1867

Friday 18:

United States takes possession of Alaska, celebrated annually in the state as (Alaska Day).

Monday 21:

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.

Wednesday 23:

72 Senators were summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.

December 1867

Monday 02:

In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

Wednesday 04:

Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange Movement).