Today in History for Year 1867

Months in Year 1867: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 103

Jan 8th - Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto
Jan 8th - African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
Jan 11th - Benito Juárez becomes the Mexican president again.
Jan 12th - Leo Tolstoy's "Smert Ioonna Groznogo," premieres in St Petersburg
Jan 31st - Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria
Feb 1st - Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
Feb 3rd - Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912)
Feb 6th - Peabody Fund forms to promote Black education in South
Feb 8th - The Ausgleich results in the establishment of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
Feb 13th - Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna
Feb 14th - Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co issues 1st policy
Feb 14th - Morehouse College organizes (Augusta Georgia)
Feb 17th - 1st ship passes through Suez Canal
Feb 17th - Gyula Andressy becomes premier of Hungary
Mar 1st - Howard University, Washington DC, chartered
Mar 1st - Most of Nebraska becomes 37th US state (expanded later)
Mar 2nd - 1st Reconstruction act passed by US Congress
Mar 2nd - US Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico
Mar 2nd - US Congress created the Department of Education
Outlaw Jesse James Mar 2nd - Jesse James gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead
Mar 2nd - US Congress creates the Department of Education
Mar 11th - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos," premieres in Paris
Mar 11th - Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano)
Mar 12th - Last French troops leave Mexico
Mar 15th - Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
Mar 16th - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.
Mar 23rd - Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over Pres Johnson's veto
Mar 29th - British North America Act (Canadian constitution) passes
Mar 29th - Congress approves Lincoln Memorial
Mar 30th - US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2 cents an acre - Seward's Folly)
Apr 1st - Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama
Apr 1st - International Exhibition opens in Paris
Apr 1st - Singapore, Penang & Malakka become British crown colonies
Apr 23rd - Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel
Composer Giuseppe Verdi Apr 24th - Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars
Apr 25th - Tokyo opens for foreign trade
Apr 27th - Opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris)
May 1st - Howard University chartered
May 1st - Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration
May 3rd - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
May 7th - Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
May 11th - Treaty of London drawn, concerning Luxembourg
May 20th - Brit parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women's suffrage
May 20th - Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria
May 23rd - Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken)
Jun 12th - Austro-Hungarian Empire forms
Jun 15th - Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana.
Jun 19th - 1st Belmont: J Gilpatrick aboard Ruthless wins in 3:05
Jun 19th - Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
Jun 20th - Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
Jun 25th - 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio
Jun 27th - Bank of California opens doors
Jun 29th - Pope Pius IX declares Gorcumse holy martyrs
Jul 1st - Dominion of Canada forms (New Bruns, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec)
Jul 2nd - 1st US elevated railroad begins service, NYC
Physician and Explorer David Livingstone Jul 9th - An unsuccessful expedition led by E.D Young sets out to search for Dr David Livingstone (Scottish missionary and explorer).
Jul 15th - SF Merchant's Exchange opens
Jul 16th - Amstel Hotel, "the dignified old lady" opens in Amsterdam
Jul 16th - D R Averill patents ready-mixed paint
Jul 16th - Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete
Jul 17th - 1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
Jul 19th - Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto
Jul 19th - Dutch Red Cross forms
Jul 21st - City Gardens on Folsom opens
Aug 1st - Blacks vote for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tenn)
Aug 12th - Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton
Aug 15th - 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England
Aug 22nd - Fisk University forms, 1867
Aug 28th - US occupies Midway Islands in Pacific
Sep 1st - Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School
Sep 2nd - 1st Girl School opens in Haarlem Neth
Sep 9th - Luxembourg gains independence
Sep 12th - 2nd synagogue in Curacao, Emanu-El of Willemstad, inaugurated
Sep 13th - Gen E R S Canby orders SC courts to impanel blacks jurors
Sep 16th - Ottawa Rough Riders & Senators play Canadian Football game
Sep 25th - Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Wash DC
Sep 28th - Toronto becomes capital of Ontario
Sep 28th - The United States takes control of Midway Island.
Sep 30th - Midway Islands formally declared a US possession
Communist Philosopher Karl Marx Oct 1st - Karl Marx' "Das Kapital," published
Oct 5th - Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska
Oct 14th - 15th & last Tokugawa Shogun resigns in Japan
Oct 16th - Alaska adopts Gregorian calendar, crosses intl date line
Oct 18th - US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million)
Oct 22nd - Foundation of the National University of Colombia.
Oct 23rd - 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
Oct 27th - Garibaldi marches on Rome
Oct 28th - Maimonides College in Penns is 1st Jewish college in the US
Oct 29th - Mail packets "Rhone" & "Wye" capsizes off St Thomas Virgin Islands
Nov 1st - "Harpers Bazaar" publishes
Nov 3rd - Battle at Mentana: French/pontifical troops beat Garibaldi
Nov 4th - 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall
Nov 23rd - The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England for rescuing two Irish men from jail.
Nov 25th - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
Inventor/Nobel Prize founder Alfred Bernhard Nobel Nov 25th - US Congress commission looks into "impeachment" of President Andrew Johnson
Nov 26th - Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit
Dec 2nd - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
Dec 4th - Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).
Dec 19th - Victims of "Angola Horror" burned to death (Angola NY)
Dec 23rd - 1st self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove-hair straightner)

1 2 ▶

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 149

Jan 1st - Charles Edward Montague, English author/critic (Fiery Particles)
Jan 1st - Lew Fields, comedian (of Weber & Fields)
Jan 6th - Georges Martin Witkowski, composer
Jan 8th - Emily Green Balch, US, sociologist/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1946)
Jan 9th - Jacques Urlus, Dutch tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth)
Jan 11th - Edward B. Titchener, British psychologist. (d. 1927)
Jan 17th - Carl Laemmle, German-born film executive (d. 1939)
Jan 18th - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan Journalist, Diplomat, Poet (d. 1916)
Jan 20th - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
Jan 21st - James Marcus, New York, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail)
Jan 21st - Maxime Weygard, French general/gov-gen (Algeria)
Jan 21st - Willem C Royaards, Dutch theater director (Summer Games)
Jan 21st - Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921)
Jan 23rd - Herbert Bedford, composer
Jan 27th - Claude Antoine Terrasse, composer
Jan 29th - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spain, writer (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse)
Feb 5th - Casper A Lingbeek, vicar/Dutch MP (HSP, 1925..37)
Feb 7th - Laura Ingalls Wilder, Wisc, kid book author (Little House on Prarie)
Feb 9th - Edward Naylor, composer
Feb 11th - August W Messer, German philosopher/educator/psychologist
Feb 12th - Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German author (Warbride) [or Febr 18]
Feb 12th - Joe Howard, NYC, vocalist (Gay Nineties Revue)
Feb 17th - William Cadbury, England, chocolate manufacturer (Cadbury)
Feb 20th - Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife (d. 1931)
Feb 21st - Otto Hermann Kahn, Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Co
Feb 26th - Siegfried Passarge, German geographer (Cameroon/So Afr/America)
Feb 27th - Irving Fisher, US economist (compensating dollar)
Feb 27th - Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, composer
Mar 3rd - Gustav Strube, composer
Mar 5th - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
Mar 10th - Lillian D Wald, US, sociologist/organizer (Visiting Nurses)
Mar 15th - Lionel Pigot Johnson, England, poet/critic (Ireland & Other Poems)
Mar 15th - Will Rossiter, composer
Mar 18th - Michael G de Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam)
Mar 22nd - Meijer Linnewiel, [Prof Kokadorus], Amsterdam's pitchman
Mar 25th - Arturo Toscanini, Parma Italy, temperamental conductor (NBC)
Mar 25th - Gutzon Borglum, sculptor (Mt Rushmore)
Mar 27th - Edyth Walker, US singer
Mar 29th - Cy [Denton True] Young, Gilmore Ohio, baseball pitcher (511 wins, 1890-1911). Died 1955
Apr 2nd - Eugen Sandow, German bodybuilder and circus performer (d. 1925)
Apr 9th - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941)
Apr 10th - George William Russell, Irish nationalist (d. 1935)
Apr 11th - John P Lotsy, Dutch botanist/geneticist (Genetics)
Apr 11th - Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Schools of Los Angeles County (d. 1928)
Apr 13th - Sammy Woods, cricket bowler (Aust & Engld Rugby wing-forward)
Apr 16th - Jose de Diego, Puerto Rico, patriot/PR Secretary of Justice
Apr 16th - Wilbur Wright, of aeronautical fame (Wright Brothers)
Apr 21st - Benjamin A Jesurun, Antillian literary
Apr 23rd - Simon Abramsz, Dutch teacher/writer (For the Young Ones)
Apr 24th - Fannie Thomas, became oldest known American (113 y 273 d at death)
Apr 25th - Jean Demoor, Belgian physician/physiologist
May 3rd - Jack Hearne, cricketer (cousin of George & Alec 12 Tests for Eng)
May 4th - Dynam-Victor Fumet, composer
May 5th - Thomas Tertius Noble, composer
May 7th - Philippine "Pine" Belder, [Mary de Klerk], actress (Hope of Blessing)
May 10th - Jim Kelly, cricket wicket-keeper (Australian 1896-1905)
May 12th - Hugh Trumble, cricket off-spinner (great Aust at turn of century)
May 13th - Frank Brangwyn, Wales, painter/muralist/cartoonist (Willam Morris)
May 14th - Kurt Eisner, German premier of revolutionary Bavaria (1918-19)
May 17th - Gerrit Mannoury, Dutch mathematician/philosopher
May 21st - John James Ferris, cricketer (mighty Australian bowler of late 1880's)
May 21st - Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer
May 26th - Mary of Teck, wife of George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1953)
May 27th - Arnold Bennett, England, novelist/playwright/critic (Great Babylon)
May 30th - Arthur Vining Davis, Sharon Mass, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57)
Jun 3rd - Bela Anton Szabados, composer
Jun 4th - Carl Gustaf baron Mannerheim, general/president of Finland (1944-46)
Jun 6th - David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (d. 1931)
Jun 7th - Luigi Maurizio Tedeschi, composer
Jun 8th - Frank Lloyd Wright, Richland Center Wisc, master builder (Guggenheim)
Jun 11th - Charles Fabry, discoverer (ozone layer in upper atmosphere)
Jun 15th - K Balmont, writer
Jun 17th - John Robert Gregg, Ireland, inventor (shorthand)
Jun 17th - Henry Lawson, Australian poet (d. 1922)
Jun 19th - Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist
Jun 19th - Frank Iredale, cricketer (Australian batsman 1894-99)
Jun 28th - Luigi Pirandello, Italy, writer (6 Characters-Nobel 1934)
Jun 28th - William Courtleigh, Guelph Ontario, actor (Eyes of Youth, Madame X)
Jul 2nd - Herbert Prior, England, actor (Caught Short, Slave of Desire)
Jul 4th - Stephen Mather, organized US National Park Service
Jul 5th - Andrew Ellicott Douglass, Dendrochronologer (study of tree rings)
Jul 8th - Kathe Kollwitz, Germany, print maker/sculptor (Bauernkrieg)
Jul 10th - Finley Peter Dunne, US, journalist/humorist (Mr Dooley)
Jul 10th - Max Prinz von Baden, German chancellor (Oct-Nov 1918)
Jul 15th - Maggie Mitchell Walker, 1st woman bank director/philanthropist
Jul 24th - Fred Tate, cricketer (father of Maurice, 1 Test, Eng v Aus 1902)
Jul 24th - Frederic Benson, novelist
Jul 24th - Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (d. the same day 1908)
Jul 25th - Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Ewige Hochzeit)
Jul 25th - Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
Jul 28th - Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer (d. 1951)
Jul 29th - Enrique Granados, Spain, composer
Jul 31st - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant and philanthropist (d. 1966)
Aug 1st - William Orlamond, Denmark, actor (Flesh & Devil, Wind)
Aug 2nd - Ernest C Dowson, British poet
Aug 3rd - Stanley Baldwin, (C) British PM (1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37)
Aug 4th - Jake Beckley, American baseball player (d. 1918)
Aug 7th - Emil Nolde, [Hansen], German painter/graphic artist
Aug 11th - Hobart Bosworth, Marietta OH, actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade)
Aug 11th - Joseph M Weber, comedian/singer (Weber & Lewis Fields)

1 2 ▶

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Feb 15th - "Crime and Punishment" Russian writer Fyodor Doestoyevsky marries Anna Snitkina in the Trinity Cathedral in St Petersburg

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 41 of 41

Jan 11th - Sir Stuart Donaldson, first Premier of the Colony of New South Wales (b. 1812)
Jan 12th - Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education, dies at 74
Jan 14th - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)
Jan 30th - Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
Feb 5th - Salomon Munk, published Arabic edition of Maimounides, dies
Feb 23rd - George Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 90
Mar 2nd - French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect, dies at 50
Mar 6th - Wiktor Kazynski, composer, dies at 54
Mar 16th - Benjamin Hanby, composer, dies at 33
Mar 22nd - Ferdinando Giorgetti, composer, dies at 70
Apr 18th - Robert Smirke, architect, dies
Apr 19th - Robert Smirke, British architect, dies
May 12th - Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b. 1795)
May 23rd - Archibald Alison, Scottish historian, dies at 74
Jun 19th - Maximilian F J, Austrian arch duke/Emperor of Mexico, dies
Jul 26th - King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)
Aug 3rd - Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
Aug 7th - Ira F Aldridge, US actor (Othello/Shylock), dies in Lodes Poland at 63
Aug 10th - Ira Aldridge, famed Shakespearean actor (Othello, Shylock), dies 1867
Aug 14th - Niccola Benvenuti, composer, dies at 84
Aug 23rd - Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
Aug 25th - Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
Aug 27th - Karol Katski, composer, dies at 51
Aug 31st - [Pierre-]Charles Baudelaire, Fren poet (Journaux Intimes), dies at 46
Sep 1st - Edward Hodges, composer, dies at 71
Sep 5th - Santiago Derqui, Argentinian politician (b. 1809)
Sep 10th - Simon Sechter, composer, dies at 78
Sep 25th - Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher (b. 1812)
Oct 3rd - Elias Howe, American sewing machine pioneer (b. 1819)
Oct 4th - Francis Xavier Seelos German-American Roman Catholic priest (b. 1819)
Oct 5th - Thomas Taglichsbeck, composer, dies at 67
Oct 10th - Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer, dies at 60
Oct 16th - Salomon J Rappoport, Czech rabbi (Ereg miliem), dies
Oct 26th - John Fawcett, composer, dies at 77
Nov 3rd - Pieter J Jong, Dutch Zouave, dies in battle
Nov 13th - Adolphe Napoleon Didron, French archaeologist (b. 1806)
Dec 6th - Giovanni Pacini, composer, dies at 71
Dec 6th - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physician (b. 1794)
Dec 7th - Rudolf Viole, composer, dies at 42
Dec 19th - Jean-Georges Kastner, composer, dies at 57
Dec 22nd - Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79