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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.[1]
- 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.[2]
- 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.[3]
- 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 | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pax Brittanica | 1815 | 1914 | A century of relative peace during which the British Empire was dominant |
| Victorian era | 1840 | 1901 |
New Groups
| Group | Image | Date | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria-Hungary |  | Nation state | Former European kingdom. A great power at the time. | |
| Kuhn Loeb & Co | | |||
| University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |  | Public Flagship Space-grant Sea-grant Land-grant | Big and prestigious public university in Illinois | |
| 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 | ||
| Eastbourne College | | Public schoolPrivate day and boarding | ||
| Howard University |  | Military ranks HBCU | Historically black university in Washington DC | |
| US/House/Committee/Education and The Workforce | | |||
| National University of Colombia | .png) | Nation state Public | One of the largest universities in Colombia. |
Births
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References
- ↑ Haverty-Stacke, D. T. (2009). America’s forgotten holiday: May Day and nationalism, 1867-1960. New York: New York University Press.
- ↑ http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-1.html
- ↑ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-takes-possesion-of-alaska
