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( 1860s: )     1867
The Dominion of Canada is created
Year 1867

Events

• January 11 – Benito Juárez becomes Mexican president again.
• January 30 – Emperor Kōmei of Japan dies suddenly, age 36, leaving his 14-year-old son to succeed as Emperor Meiji.
• 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.
• March 5 – The Fenian Rising breaks out in Ireland.
• 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.
• April 1–November 3 – 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.
• May 1 – The first political May Day march takes place in Chicago.
• May 29 - The 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 Francis Joseph of Austria is crowned King of Hungary.
• May 29 - Canadian Confederation: Queen Victoria signs the British North America Act, creating the Dominion of Canada, effective July 1.
• June 19 – A firing squad executes Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and two of his lieutenants.
• July 1 - Canadian 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.
• 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.
• July 15 – France declares Cambodia's independence from Siam; Cambodia becomes a protectorate of France and Britain.
• August 7–September 20 – The first Canadian election sees John A. Macdonald's Conservatives elected to government.
• August 15 – Benjamin 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.
• September 14 – The first volume of Das Kapital (later translated into English as Capital) is published by Karl Marx.
• October 18 – Alaska is transferred from Russia to the US, becoming the Department of Alaska.
• 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 American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
• October 27 – Italian unification: Giuseppe Garibaldi's troops march into Rome.
• November 9 – The last shōgun of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, tenders his resignation to Emperor Meiji.
• 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.

Date unknown

• South African diamond fields are discovered.
• Gorse is naturalised in New Zealand, where it soon becomes the worst invasive weed.
• The Swedish famine of 1867-1869 begins.

Ongoing

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

 

Events

Event	Start	End
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Victorian era	1840	1901

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Eastbourne College
Kuhn Loeb & Co
Morgan State University		Public HBCU	Historically black Baltimore university.
University of Illinois			A system of public universities in Illinois consisting of three universities: Chicago, Springfield, and Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign		Public Flagship Space-grant Sea-grant Land-grant	Big and prestigious public university in Illinois
Austria-Hungary		Nation state	Former European kingdom. A great power at the time.
Howard University		Military ranks HBCU	Historically black university in Washington DC
US/House/Committee/Education and The Workforce
National University of Colombia		Nation state Public	One of the largest universities in Colombia.

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Otto Kahn	21 February 1867	Germany Mannheim	29 March 1934	Banker Businessperson
Max Warburg Sr.	5 June 1867	Germany Hamburg	26 December 1946	Spook Banker Deep politician	Headed German intelligence. Brother of Paul Warburg.
Henry Davison	12 June 1867		6 May 1922	Banker	USDSO and banker who attended the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting
Max von Baden	10 July 1867	Baden-Baden Grand Duchy of Baden	6 November 1929		Chancellor of Germany for a month in 1918
Stanley Baldwin	3 August 1867	Bewdley UK	14 December 1947	Politician
Abram Elkus	6 August 1867	New York	15 October 1947	Diplomat Lawyer
Henry Stimson	21 September 1867	New York US	20 October 1950	Politician
Walther Rathenau	29 September 1867		24 June 1922	Journalist Politician Industrialist	German Foreign Minister assassinated in office after signing the Treaty of Rapallo with the USSR.
Frederick C. Howe	21 November 1867		3 August 1940

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