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Year 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. Events January–March Roebling Suspension Bridge]] was the longest suspension bridge. February 17: Suez Canal in use. March 30: Alaska bought by check. April–June July–September October–December Date unknown - The first volume of Das Kapital is published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
- The Edo period gives way 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.
- Yellow fever kills 3,093 in New Orleans.
- The Paraguayan War is fought in Paraguay.
- The Second Reform Bill by Disraeli enfranchises many working men and adds 938,000 to an electorate of 1,057,000 in England and Wales.
- South African diamond fields are discovered.
- The Fenian rising occurs in Ireland.
- The Reverend Thomas Baker, a Wesleyan Methodist missionary (born in Playden, East Sussex, England) is cooked and eaten by Navatusila tribespeople at Nabutautau on Fiji, together with eight of his local followers, the last missionary in that country to suffer cannibalism.
- The Prohibition National Committee is formed in the United States.
- The Wasps R.F.C. is formed in Middlesex, England (see London Wasps and Wasps FC).
- Gorse is naturalised in New Zealand (it soon becomes the worst invasive weed).
- At historic Fountain Point, Michigan, an artesian water spring gushes continuously till the present day.
- 1867 1873 – Chinese, Scandinavian and Irish immigrants lay of railroad tracks in the USA.
- Pedro Figueredo creates the Cuban national anthem, El Himno de Bayamo.
- Clarke School for the Deaf in Western Massachusetts opens its doors for the first time, becoming the first school for the deaf in the United States to teach its children how to communicate using the "oral method".
- The modern rose is born, with the introduction of Rosa 'La France' by Jean-Baptiste Guillot (1803 1882).[1][2]
Births January–June - January 1 – Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (d. 1941)
- January 6 – Takejir Tokonami, Japanese politician, Home Minister, Railway Minister, and Minister of Communication (d. 1935)
- January 8 – Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1961)
- January 17 – Carl Laemmle, German-born film executive (d. 1939)
- January 18 – Rub n Dar o, Nicaraguan poet (d. 1916)
- January 20 – Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
- January 21
- January 29 – Carl L. Boeckmann, Norwegian-American artist (d. 1923)
- February 3 – Charles Henry Turner, African American entomologist (d. 1923)
- February 7 – Laura Elizabeth Wilder, n e Ingalls, American children's author (d. 1957)
- February 8 – William Michael Crose, United States Navy Commander and the seventh Naval Governor of American Samoa (d. 1929)
- February 21 – Otto Hermann Kahn, German-born millionaire and philanthropist (d. 1934)
- February 27 – Nina Boucicault, actress(first ever to play Peter Pan), daughter of Dion Boucicault (d. 1950)
- February 27 – Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Swedish composer (d. 1942)
- March 4 – Charles Pelot Summerall, American general (d. 1955)
- March 6 – Samuel Cody, aviation pioneer, (d. 1913)
- March 19 – Sakichi Toyoda, Japanese inventor and industrialist (d. 1930)
- March 25 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (d. 1957)
- March 29 – Cy Young, baseball player (d. 1955)
- April 2 – Eugen Sandow, German-born body builder and circus performer (d. 1925)
- April 7 – Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (d. 1953)
- April 9 – Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941)
- April 10 – George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (d. 1935)
- April 11 – Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools (d. 1928)
- April 13 – Sammy Woods, English cricketer (d. 1931)
- April 16
- April 23 – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1928)
- May 3 – J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1944)
- May 7 – W adys aw Reymont, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)
- May 14 – Kurt Eisner, German politician and publicist (d. 1919)
- May 26 – Mary of Teck (d. 1953)
- June 4 – Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, President of Finland (d. 1951)
- June 8 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d. 1959)
- June 14 – Joseph John Englehart, American Northwest Frontier painter (d. 1915)
- June 17 – Flora Finch, British-American silent film comedienne (d. 1940)
- June 24 – J. Gordon Edwards, American film director (d. 1925)
- June 28 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
July–December - July 8 – K the Kollwitz, German artist (d. 1945)
- July 10 – Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
- July 25 – Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
- July 27 – Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (d. 1916)
- July 28 – Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer (d. 1951)
- August 3 – Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1947)
- August 9
- August 11 – Hobart Bosworth, American film actor, director, writer, and producer (d. 1943)
- August 12 – Edith Hamilton, German-born educator and author (d. 1963)
- August 14 – John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1933)
- August 22 – Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
- September 5 – Amy Beach American pianist and composer (d. 1944)
- October 14 – Masaoka Shiki, Japanese haiku poet (d. 1902)
- October 25 – Hiranuma Kiichir , 35th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)
- October 25 – J zef Dowb r-Mu nicki, Polish general (d. 1937)
- October 31 – David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (d. 1911)
- November 7 – Marie Curie, Polish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and physics (d. 1934)
- November 7 – George Paish, English economist, (d. 1957)
- November 8 – Sadakichi Hartmann, German/Japanese critic & poet (d. 1944)
- December 1 – Ignacy Moscicki, former President of Poland (d. 1946)
- December 5 – J zef Pi sudski, Polish statesman andfield marshal (d. 1935)
- December 16 – Amy Carmichael, missionary (d. 1951)
- December 23 – Madam C.J. Walker, first African-American millionaire (d. 1919)
- December 26 – Yordan Milanov, Bulgarian architect (d. 1932)
Date unknown Deaths January–June July–December - July 26 – Otto of Greece, the first modern King of Greece (b. 1815)
- July 31 – Beno t Fourneyron, French engineer and inventor of the turbine (b. 1802)
- August 8 – Maria Theresa of Austria, the second Queen consort of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1816)
- 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)
- September 26 – James Ferguson, Scotland-born American astronomer (b. 1797)
- October 9 – Ignacy Feliks Dobrzy ski, composer (b. 1807)
- October 23 – Franz Bopp, German linguist (b. 1791)
- October 25 – Abuna Salama III, metropolitan of the Ethiopian Church
- October 31 – William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Irish astronomer (b. 1800)
- November 19 – Ren Zhu, Chinese leader of the Nien rebellion (b. 1830?)
- December 1 – Filaret, Metropolitan of Moscow, Russian Orthodox leader (b. 1782)
- December 10 – Sakamoto Ry ma, Japanese samurai, politician, and businessman (b. 1836)
- December 26 – J zsef Kossics, Catholic priest, writer, and ethnologist (b. 1788)
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