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== Events ==
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* [[January 11]] – [[Benito Juárez]] becomes Mexican president again.
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* [[January 30]] – [[Emperor Kōmei]] of Japan dies suddenly, age 36, leaving his 14-year-old son to succeed as [[Emperor Meiji]].
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* [[February 3]] – ''[[Shōgun]]'' [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] abdicates, and the late [[Emperor Kōmei]]'s son, Prince Mutsuhito becomes [[Emperor Meiji]] of Japan in a brief ceremony in [[Kyoto]], ending the [[Late Tokugawa shogunate]].
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* [[March 5]] – The [[Fenian Rising]] breaks out in Ireland.
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* [[March 30]] – [[Alaska Purchase]]: Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million from [[Alexander II of Russia]] by [[United States Secretary of State]] [[William H. Seward]].
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* [[April 1]]–[[November 3]] – [[Exposition Universelle (1867)|Exposition 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.
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* [[May 1]] – The first political [[May Day]] march takes place in Chicago.<ref>Haverty-Stacke, D. T. (2009). ''America’s forgotten holiday: May Day and nationalism, 1867-1960''. New York: New York University Press.</ref>
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* [[May 29]] - The [[Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867|Austro-Hungarian Compromise]] (called ''Ausgleich'' in German or ''kiegyezés'' in Hungarian (''The Compromise'')) is born through Act 12, which establishes the [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian Empire]]; on [[June 8]] Emperor [[Franz Joseph I of Austria|Francis Joseph of Austria]] is crowned [[King of Hungary]].
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* [[May 29]] - [[Canadian Confederation]]: [[Queen Victoria]] signs the [[Constitution Act, 1867|British North America Act]], creating the Dominion of Canada, effective [[July 1]].<ref>http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-1.html</ref>
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* [[June 19]] – A [[firing squad]] executes Emperor [[Maximilian of Mexico]] and two of his lieutenants.
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* [[July 1]] - [[Canadian Confederation]]: The ''[[Constitution Act, 1867|British North America Act]]'' of [[29 March]] comes into force, creating the Dominion of [[Canada]], the first independent dominion in the [[British Empire]].
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* [[July 1]] - The Constitution of the [[North German Confederation]] comes into effect, creating a confederation of states, under the leadership of [[Prussia]] and [[Otto von Bismarck]].
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* [[July 15]] – France declares [[Cambodia]]'s independence from [[Siam]]; Cambodia becomes a [[protectorate]] of France and Britain.
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* [[August 7]]–[[September 20]] – The [[1867 Canadian federal election|first Canadian election]] sees [[John A. Macdonald]]'s [[Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942)|Conservatives]] elected to [[1st Canadian Parliament|government]].
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* [[August 15]] – [[Benjamin Disraeli]]'s [[Reform Act 1867|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]].
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* [[September 14]] – The first volume of ''[[Das Kapital]]'' (later translated into English as ''Capital'') is published by [[Karl Marx]].
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* [[October 18]] – Alaska is transferred from Russia to the US, becoming the [[Department of Alaska]].<ref>https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-takes-possesion-of-alaska</ref>
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* [[October 21]] – '[[Manifest destiny]]': [[Medicine Lodge Treaty]] – Near Medicine Lodge Creek, Kansas, a landmark treaty is signed by southern [[Great Plains]] Indian leaders, requiring [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western [[Oklahoma]].
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* [[October 27]] – [[Italian unification]]: [[Giuseppe Garibaldi]]'s troops march into [[Rome]].
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* [[November 9]] – The last ''[[shōgun]]'' of Japan, [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]], tenders his resignation to [[Emperor Meiji]].
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* [[November 23]] – The three '[[Manchester Martyrs]]' are hanged in England for the murder of a policeman whilst attempting to rescue two [[Irish Republican Brotherhood]] members from imprisonment on 18 September.
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* South African [[diamond]] fields are discovered.
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* [[Gorse]] is naturalised in [[New Zealand]], where it soon becomes the worst invasive weed.
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* The [[Swedish famine of 1867-1869]] begins.
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===Ongoing===
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* [[Paraguayan War]].
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* 1867–[[1873]] – Chinese, Scandinavian and Irish immigrants lay {{convert|30000|mi|km}} of railroad tracks in the USA.
 
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Latest revision as of 07:44, 14 March 2021

1857 < 1858 < 1859 < 1860 < 1861 < 1862 < 1863 <1864 < 1865 < 1866 < 1867 > 1868 > 1869 > 1870 > 1871 > 1872 > 1873 > 1874 > 1875 > 1876 > 1877

Decade.png 1860s: )    Year.png 1867 Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Canada 1867.png
The Dominion of Canada is created
Year 1867

Events

Date unknown


Ongoing

  • Paraguayan War.
  • 1867–1873 – Chinese, Scandinavian and Irish immigrants lay 30,000 miles (48,000 km) of railroad tracks in the USA.

 

Events

EventStartEnd
Pax Brittanica18151915
Victorian era18401901

 

New Groups

GroupImageTypeDescription
University of Illinois at Urbana–ChampaignUniversity of Illinois seal.pngPublic
Flagship
Space-grant
Sea-grant
Land-grant
Big and prestigious public university in Illinois
Austria-HungaryGroup.pngNation stateFormer European kingdom. A great power at the time.
Eastbourne CollegeGroup.png
Kuhn Loeb & CoGroup.png
Morgan State UniversityMorgan State University Logo.pngPublic
HBCU
Historically black Baltimore university.
University of IllinoisUniversity of Illinois System logo.pngA system of public universities in Illinois consisting of three universities: Chicago, Springfield, and Urbana-Champaign
Howard UniversityHoward University seal.svgMilitary ranks
HBCU
Historically black university in Washington DC
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National University of ColombiaEscudo de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2016).pngNation state
Public
One of the largest universities in Colombia.

 

Births

TitleBornPlace of birthDiedSummaryDescription
Otto Kahn21 February 1867Germany
Mannheim
29 March 1934Banker
Businessperson
Max Warburg Sr.5 June 1867Germany
Hamburg
26 December 1946Spook
Banker
Deep politician
Headed German intelligence. Brother of Paul Warburg.
Henry Davison12 June 18676 May 1922BankerUSDSO and banker who attended the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting
Max von Baden10 July 1867Baden-Baden
Grand Duchy of Baden
6 November 1929Chancellor of Germany for a month in 1918
Stanley Baldwin3 August 1867Bewdley
UK
14 December 1947Politician
Abram Elkus6 August 1867New York15 October 1947Diplomat
Lawyer
Henry Stimson21 September 1867New York
US
20 October 1950Politician
Walther Rathenau29 September 186724 June 1922Journalist
Politician
Industrialist
German Foreign Minister assassinated in office after signing the Treaty of Rapallo with the USSR.
Frederick C. Howe21 November 18673 August 1940
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References

  1. Haverty-Stacke, D. T. (2009). America’s forgotten holiday: May Day and nationalism, 1867-1960. New York: New York University Press.
  2. http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-1.html
  3. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-takes-possesion-of-alaska