What happened in 1867

33 events　World 2, Japan 2, North America 12, Europe 14, Asia 1, Latin America 1, Africa 1

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Highlights of 1867

World2

  • Mar 5The Fenian Rising breaks out in Ireland.
  • Dec 4Beginning of British expedition to Abyssinia.

Japan2

  • Jan 30Emperor Kōmei of Japan dies suddenly, age 36, leaving his son Mutsuhito to succeed him.
  • Feb 3The late Emperor Kōmei's 14-year-old son, Prince Mutsuhito, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan in a brief ceremony in Kyoto, ending the Late Tokugawa shogunate.

North America12

  • Jan 1The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It is renamed after its designer, John A. Roebling, in 1983.
  • Feb 7West Virginia University is established in Morgantown.
  • Feb 14Augusta Institute is founded in Augusta, Georgia, later known as Morehouse College.
  • Mar 29The British North America Act receives royal assent, forming the Dominion of Canada, in an event known as the Confederation. This unites the Province of Canada (Quebec and Ontario), New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia on July 1. Ottawa will become the capital.
  • Mar 30Alaska Purchase: Alaska is purchased for US$7.2 million from Alexander II of Russia, about 2 cents/acre ($4.19/km2), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. Newspapers call this Seward's Folly.
  • MarThe University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is established (opened one year later).
  • May 29Canadian Confederation: Queen Victoria signs the British North America Act, creating the Dominion of Canada, effective July 1.
  • Jul 1Canadian Confederation: The British North America Act of 29 March comes into force, creating the Dominion of Canada, the first independent dominion in the British Empire.
  • Aug 7The first Canadian election sees John A. Macdonald's Conservatives elected to government and Macdonald becomes the Dominion's first prime minister.
  • Oct 18Alaska is transferred from Russia to the United States, becoming the Department of Alaska.
  • Oct 21'Manifest destiny': Medicine Lodge Treaty – Near Medicine Lodge Creek, Kansas, a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders, requiring Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
  • Nov 2The first issue of the women's fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar is published. It is issued weekly, but later monthly.

Europe14

  • Feb 13The Covering of the Senne in Brussels begins.
  • Feb 15Johann Strauss II's waltz The Blue Danube (An der schönen blauen Donau) is first performed, at a concert of the Vienna Men's Choral Association. Later this year, Strauss will adapt it into its popular purely orchestral version for the Exposition Universelle in Paris.
  • Mar 23William III of the Netherlands accepts an offer of 5,000,000 guilders from Napoleon III for the sale of Luxembourg, leading to the Luxembourg Crisis.
  • Apr 1Exposition Universelle, an international exhibition in Paris. Among the visitors is Abdülaziz, making the first visit of a Sultan of the Ottoman Empire to Western Europe.
  • May 11Treaty of London: The great powers of Europe reaffirm the neutrality of Luxembourg, ending the Luxembourg Crisis. The Duchy of Limburg is formally re-incorporated into the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
  • May 29The Austro-Hungarian Compromise (called Ausgleich in German or kiegyezés in Hungarian (The Compromise)) is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire; on June 8 Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria is crowned King of Hungary.
  • Jun 19A firing squad executes Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico and two of his lieutenants.
  • Jul 1The Constitution of the North German Confederation comes into effect, creating a confederation of states, under the leadership of Prussia and Otto von Bismarck.
  • Aug 15Benjamin Disraeli's Second Reform Act enfranchises many men in cities for the first time, and adds 938,000 to an electorate of 1,057,000 in England and Wales.
  • Sep 14The first volume of Das Kapital (later translated into English as Capital) is published by Karl Marx.
  • Dec 13The Clerkenwell explosion, the most infamous action carried out by the Fenians in Britain in the 19th century.
  • Delhaize, as predecessor for Ahold Delhaize, a major retail group in Europe, is founded in Belgium.
  • The modern rose is born, with the introduction of Rosa 'La France' by Jean-Baptiste André Guillot.
  • Invention of dynamiteNobel of Sweden soaked the dangerous nitroglycerin into diatomaceous earth to make an explosive that could be carried safely. It changed tunnel and mine work, and Nobel made a great fortune.

Asia1

  • Feb 19Battle of Inlon River: The Qing dynasty defeats the Nien rebels in Hubei, China.

Latin America1

  • Jun 20The first recorded association football match in Argentina takes place in Buenos Aires.

Africa1

  • Jul 18The Battle of Fandane-Thiouthioune: The Serer people defeat the Muslim Marabouts of Senegambia.