Notable Historical Events - 1867
1867 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 8 |
African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. despite President Johnson's veto |
Jan 11 |
Benito Juárez becomes the Mexican president again. |
Jan 12 |
Leo Tolstoy's "Smert Ioonna Groznogo," premieres in St Petersburg |
Jan 31 |
Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria |
Feb 1 |
Bricklayers start working 8-hour days |
Feb 3 |
Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912) |
Feb 6 |
Peabody Fund forms to promote Black education in southern USA |
Feb 8 |
The Ausgleich results in the establishment of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary. |
Feb 13 |
Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna |
Feb 14 |
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co issues 1st policy |
Feb 14 |
Morehouse College organizes (Augusta Georgia) |
Feb 17 |
1st ship passes through Suez Canal |
Feb 17 |
Gyula Andressy becomes premier of Hungary |
Mar 1 |
Howard University, Washington DC, chartered |
Mar 1 |
Most of Nebraska becomes 37th US state (expanded later) |
Mar 2 |
1st Reconstruction act passed by US Congress |
Mar 2 |
US Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico |
Mar 2 |
US Congress created the Department of Education |
Mar 2 |
Jesse James gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead |
Mar 2 |
US Congress creates the Department of Education |
Mar 8 |
The British North America Act is passed in the House of Commons, and would serve as a constitution for Canada for the next 100 years |
Mar 11 |
Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos" premieres in Paris |
Mar 12 |
Last French troops leave Mexico |
Mar 15 |
Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university |
Mar 16 |
First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet. |
Mar 23 |
Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto |
Mar 29 |
British North America Act (Canadian constitution) passes |
Mar 29 |
Congress first approves building of Lincoln Memorial |
Mar 30 |
US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2 cents an acre - Seward's Folly) |
Apr 1 |
Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama |
Apr 1 |
International Exhibition opens in Paris |
Apr 1 |
Singapore, Penang & Malakka become British crown colonies |
Apr 23 |
Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel |
Apr 24 |
Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars |
Apr 25 |
Tokyo opens for foreign trade |
Apr 27 |
Opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris) |
May 1 |
Howard University chartered |
May 1 |
Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration |
May 3 |
The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island. |
May 7 |
Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans |
May 11 |
Treaty of London drawn, concerning Luxembourg |
May 20 |
British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills' proposals on women's suffrage |
May 20 |
Royal Albert Hall of Arts & Sciences foundation laid by Queen Victoria |
May 23 |
Jesse James gang robs bank in Richmond, Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken) |
Jun 12 |
Austro-Hungarian Empire forms |
Jun 15 |
Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana. |
Jun 19 |
1st Belmont: J Gilpatrick aboard Ruthless wins in 3:05 |
Jun 20 |
US President Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska |
Jun 22 |
Leopold Marquard, South African clergyman, missionary and educationist, 80 |
Jun 25 |
1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio |
Jun 27 |
Bank of California opens doors |
Jun 29 |
Pope Pius IX declares Gorcumse holy martyrs |
Jul 1 |
The Dominion of Canada is formed, comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec, with John A. Macdonald serving as the first Prime Minister |
Jul 2 |
1st US elevated railroad begins service, NYC |
Jul 9 |
An unsuccessful expedition led by E.D Young sets out to search for Dr David Livingstone (Scottish missionary and explorer). |
Jul 15 |
San Francisco Merchants' Exchange opens |
Jul 16 |
Amstel Hotel, "the dignified old lady" opens in Amsterdam |
Jul 16 |
D R Averill patents ready-mixed paint |
Jul 16 |
Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete |
Jul 17 |
1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established |
Jul 19 |
US Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto |
Jul 19 |
Dutch Red Cross forms |
Jul 21 |
City Gardens on Folsom opens |
Aug 1 |
Blacks vote for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tenn) |
Aug 12 |
US President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton |
Aug 15 |
2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England |
Aug 22 |
Fisk University forms, 1867 |
Aug 28 |
United States occupy Midway Islands in the Pacific |
Sep 1 |
Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School |
Sep 2 |
1st Girl School opens in Haarlem Neth |
Sep 9 |
Luxembourg gains independence |
Sep 12 |
2nd synagogue in Curacao, Emanu-El of Willemstad, inaugurated |
Sep 13 |
Gen E R S Canby orders SC courts to impanel blacks jurors |
Sep 16 |
Ottawa Rough Riders & Senators play Canadian Football game |
Sep 25 |
Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Wash DC |
Sep 28 |
Toronto becomes capital of Ontario |
Sep 28 |
The United States takes control of Midway Island. |
Sep 30 |
Midway Islands formally declared a US possession |
Oct 1 |
Karl Marx' "Das Kapital" published |
Oct 5 |
Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska |
Oct 14 |
15th & last Tokugawa Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigns in Japan |
Oct 16 |
Alaska adopts Gregorian calendar, crosses intl date line |
Oct 18 |
US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million) |
Oct 22 |
Foundation of the National University of Colombia. |
Oct 23 |
72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate. |
Oct 27 |
Garibaldi marches on Rome |
Oct 28 |
Maimonides College in Pennsylvania is first Jewish college in the US |
Oct 29 |
Mail packets "Rhone" & "Wye" capsize off St Thomas, Virgin Islands |
Nov 1 |
"Harper's Bazaar" publishes |
Nov 3 |
Battle at Mentana: French & Papal troops beat Garibaldi |
Nov 4 |
90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, for seawall |
Nov 23 |
The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England for rescuing two Irish men from jail. |
Nov 25 |
Alfred Nobel patents dynamite |
Nov 25 |
US Congress commission looks into "impeachment" of President Andrew Johnson |
Nov 26 |
Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit |
Dec 2 |
In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States. |
Dec 4 |
Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange). |
Dec 18 |
Around 49 victims of "Angola Horror" train wreck burn to death (Angola NY) |
Dec 27 |
Ontario & Quebec legislatures hold 1st meeting |
Dec 28 |
United States claims Midway Island, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits. |
Dec 29 |
1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Co, NY |
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