1867

1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1867th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 867th year of the 2nd millennium, the 67th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1860s decade. As of the start of 1867, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1830s  1840s  1850s  – 1860s –  1870s  1880s  1890s
Years:	1864 1865 1866 – 1867 – 1868 1869 1870

1867 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1867 MDCCCLXVII
Ab urbe condita	2620
Armenian calendar	1316 ԹՎ ՌՅԺԶ
Assyrian calendar	6617
Bahá'í calendar	23–24
Balinese saka calendar	1788–1789
Bengali calendar	1274
Berber calendar	2817
British Regnal year	30 Vict. 1 – 31 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2411
Burmese calendar	1229
Byzantine calendar	7375–7376
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4563 or 4503     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4564 or 4504
Coptic calendar	1583–1584
Discordian calendar	3033
Ethiopian calendar	1859–1860
Hebrew calendar	5627–5628
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1923–1924
- Shaka Samvat	1788–1789
- Kali Yuga	4967–4968
Holocene calendar	11867
Igbo calendar	867–868
Iranian calendar	1245–1246
Islamic calendar	1283–1284
Japanese calendar	Keiō 3 (慶応３年)
Javanese calendar	1795–1796
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4200
Minguo calendar	45 before ROC 民前45年
Nanakshahi calendar	399
Thai solar calendar	2409–2410
Tibetan calendar	阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 1993 or 1612 or 840     — to — 阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 1994 or 1613 or 841

Births

• April 6 – Wilbur Wright
• April 9 – Chris Watson, 3rd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941)
• November 7 – Marie Curie, Polish-French chemist and physicist (d. 1934)

Deaths

• January 14 – Jean Auguste Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)
• January 30 – Emperor Komei of Japan (b. 1831)
• May 12 – Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b. 1795)
• June 19 – Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico (executed) (b. 1832)
• August 25 – Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist (b. 1791)
• August 31 – Charles Baudelaire, French writer (b. 1821)
• September 10 – Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (b. 1788)
• Alexander Bryan Johnson, American philosopher (b. 1786)

Events

• January 1 – The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky, becoming the longest suspension bridge in the world
• January 8 – African-American men are granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.
• January 11 – Benito Juárez becomes Mexican president again
• January 30 – Emperor Komei of Japan dies. Crown Prince Mutsuhito is expected to become the next Emperor of Japan.
• January 31 – Maronite nationalist leader Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria
• February 3 – Shogun Tokugawa 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 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this "Seward's Folly."
• April 1 – Strait Settlement of Singapore, formerly ruled from Calcutta, becomes a Crown Colony under the jurisdiction of the Colonial Office in London.
• April 24 - A very bad earthquake hits Manhattan, Kansas.
• May 29 – Austro-Hungarian agreement called Ausgleich ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which established the Austro-Hungarian Empire; on June 8 Emperor Franz Joseph I was crowned King of Hungary
• June 19 – Firing squad executes Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico
• July 1 – Canada Day, recognizing the creation of Canada by the British North America Act.
• July 17 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established as the first dental school in the United States.
• July 21 – Missionary Thomas Baker killed and eaten in Viti Levu, Fiji
• September 2 – Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor of Japan marries Ichijo Masako. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko.
• September 30 – The United States takes control of Midway Island.
• October 21 – 'Manifest Destiny': Medicine Lodge Treaty – Near Medicine Lodge Creek, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate a reservation in western Oklahoma.
• October 27 – Giuseppe Garibaldi's troops march into Rome
• December 2 – In a New York City theater, British writer Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
• December 4 – Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange movement).