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Information about 1867

Events

   * January 8 - African-American men granted the right to vote in the
     District of Columbia
   * January 11 - Benito Juarez becomes Mexican president again
   * February 3 - Shogun Yoshinobu abdicates, and the late Emperor Komei's
     son, Prince Mutshuhito becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan. End of the Late
     Tokugawa shogunate.
   * February 17 - The first ship passes through the Suez Canal
   * March 1 - Nebraska is admitted as the 37th U.S. state.
   * March 16 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining
     the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.
   * March 29 - The British North America Act receives royal assent, forming
     the Dominion of Canada in an event known as Confederation. This unites
     the Province of Canada, Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia
     as of July 1. Ottawa becomes the capital, and John A. Macdonald becomes
     the Dominion's first prime minister.
   * March 30 - Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million from Alexander II of
     Russia (about two cents an acre) by United States Secretary of State
     William H. Seward. The news media call this "Seward's Folly."
   * April 1 - Singapore becomes British crown colony.
   * July 17 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard School of Dental
     Medicine is established as the first dental school in the United
     States.

   * First running of the Belmont Stakes horse race in Elmont, New York.
   * Transition from the Edo period to the Meiji period in Japanese History
   * Pierre Michaux invents the front wheel-driven velocipede, the first
     mass-produced bicycle.
   * Otto von Bismarck organises a North German Confederation under the
     leadership of Prussia

Births

   * January 8 - Emily Greene Balch, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1946 (+
     1961)
   * January 17 - Carl Laemmle, film executive (+ 1939)
   * January 21 - Ludwig Thoma, narrator, dramatist and lyricist (+ 1921)
   * January 21 - Maxime Weygand, French General
   * February 7 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author + (1957)
   * February 11 - August W Messer, German
     philosopher/educator/psychologist.
   * February 18 - Hedwig Courths-Mahler, novelist (+ 1950)
   * March 25 - Arturo Toscanini, conductor (+ 1957)
   * March 29 - Cy Young, United States baseball player
   * April 2 - Eugene Sandow, body builder, circus performer (+ 1925)
   * May 6, Mary of Teck, later Queen Consort of George V of the United
     Kingdom
   * May 14 - Kurt Eisner, politician and publicist (+ 1919)
   * May 26 - Mary of Teck (+ 1953)
   * August 22 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and Muesli
     inventor (+ 1939)
   * November 7 - Marie Curie, Scientist and Nobel Prize winner due to
     research in the field of radioactivity.

Deaths

   * January 14 - Jean Auguste Ingres, painter
   * May 12 - Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist
   * June 19 - Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico (executed)
   * August 31 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, French poet and writer
   * Emperor Komei of Japan

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