Major Events
- Mar 8 British North America Act is passed in the House of Commons, serves as Canada's constitution for more than 100 years
- Mar 16 First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in "The Lancet"
- Mar 30 The United States buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (109 million in 2018 dollars), roughly 2 cents an acre
- May 7 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite in England, the first of three patents he would receive for the explosive material
- Jul 1 The Dominion of Canada is formed, comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec, with John A. Macdonald serving as the first Prime Minister
- Oct 1 Karl Marx publishes "Das Kapital" in Berlin, a description of the capitalist system, its instability and tendency to self-destruction
- Oct 14 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigns in Japan
- Oct 18 Alaska Purchase: US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, having paid $7.2 million
- More 1867 Events
1867 in Sport
- Jun 19 1st Belmont Stakes: Gilbert Gilpatrick aboard Ruthless wins in 3:05
Cy Young
Wilbur Wright
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Frank Lloyd Wright
Stanley Baldwin
Marie Curie
Arturo Toscanini
Amy BeachMore People Born in 1867
Maximilian I
Michael Faraday
Elias Howe
Domitila de CastroMore 1867 Deaths
Articles About 1867
Around The World With Nellie Bly
Only a man could do it, Nellie Bly was told about her plan to go round the world in less than 80 days. It was a red rag to a bull and she soon achieved the featMay 5
‘Dirty Rat’ Lets His Mother Die
Before Abraham Lincoln was assassinated there was a plan to kidnap the President, which resulted on this day in the arrest of John Surratt, one of the plotters.August 9
Alaska Purchase
The check used by the United States to purchase Alaska from RussiaOctober 18
Nobel's Dynamite
1906 Advertisement for Nobel's Dynamite in the German newspaper "Deutsch-Südwestafrikanische Zeitung"November 25
Famous Weddings in 1867
- Jan 28 Labor union leader Samuel Gompers (17) weds co-worker Sophia Julian (16) in Brooklyn, New York
- Feb 15 Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky (45) weds Anna Snitkina at Trinity Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Feb 16 Prime Minister of Canada John A. Macdonald (52) weds Agnes Bernard (30) at St George's Church in Hanover Square, London
More Weddings in 1867
Charles Dickens
Claude Monet
Giuseppe Verdi
Andrew Johnson
Edward Smith-Stanley