This page relates to the year 1867 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Africa

  • March 2nd: Earthquake with Blida in Algeria. Several villages are destroyed.
  • May 15th: Monseigneur Charles Lavigerie becomes bishop of Algiers. He was previously with Nancy. It wishes évangéliser the Algérie, project which meets the opposition of the emperor and, on the ground, of the army. It will found two orders of missionaries: the white Fathers and the Sisters missionaries of Africa, who open dispensaries and orphanages through the country. He wants to also bring back the Berbères to the Christianisme which they had given up as from the 7th century for Islam.
  • May 28th: Beginning of the reign of Kofi Kakari, asantehene of the Ashanti (deposited in 1874).
  • August: Treaty of friendship enters the British and the Akwamu, in Gold Coast.
  • December: The British military forwarding of Sir Robert Napier unloads with Massaoua, in Ethiopia, with 32  000 men and forty elephants come from the Indies, to release the British diplomats imprisoned in 1866. The advance of Napier is supported by the attitude of the short-nap cloth of the Tigré, Cassa, which is in open fight against the Négus Théodoros II.
    • forwarding Sir Rober Napier will bring back to England some five hundred Ethiopian manuscripts.

  • Inflation of Cauris to the Dahomey. The budgetary difficulties lead the king Glèlè to weigh down the tax pressure.
  • Large-Lakes: Beginning of the reign of Ntare V Rugingiza, king of Ankole (fine in 1895). With its death, ruined Ankole will be attacked by the Ruanda and the Bouganda.
  • Sudan: In the area ranging between the Oubangui, the White Nile and the river Kotto, the commercial prince Zubeir Pasha, a Bahara the top the Nile, takes possession of the country. Initially employed of an Arab tradesman, it begins in 1856 to create its own network of zariba (warehouses) in particular by contracting alliances with the Kreich and the Zande. Supported by a devoted army of bazinger (militiamans), it launches since its residence Dem Nduggu of the raids on the countries bordering, in particular the Darfur, the Chad and the valley of the Uele. He proclaims himself independent in 1867 and grants the title of sheik. Its reign will show the withdrawal of Europeans of the brotherhood of the tradesmen of the high Nile and by a starter of local depopulation.
  • South Africa: Discovered diamond layer with Kimberley, in the Colony of the Cape and with the Grikaland. It follows a systematic prospection not only in the area, but on the near total of the continent.

Americas

North America

See also: 1867 in Canada

  • March 29th: the Acte of British North America is voted by the British Parliament, it creates the Dominion Canada formed by the Confédération of Canada whose John A. Macdonald becomes preserving the Prime Minister.

  • July 1st: coming into effect of the Act of British North America which links the Province of Canada, the New Brunswick and the Nova Scotia, this date event is commemorated by the national festival because it marks the independence of the Canada.

The United States
  • March 1st: The Nebraska becomes the thirty-seventh state of the American Union.
  • March 2nd: The Congress vote the Tenure Office Act , which restricts the capacities of the president, depriving it of the right to revoke a minister of which the nomination at summer approved by the Senate.
  • March 30th: The the United States buy Alaska in Russia for 7,2 million dollars.
  • April 18th, Indian Wars: the Hancock forwarding, in which Custer takes part, wants to negotiate with Indians Sioux and Cheyennes. But, approaching too much the village, it worries the chiefs who flee with their families. The Indians having massacred 20 civilians more in north, Hancok makes burn 251 of the 291 tipis, with all that they contained. The war starts again and of many attacks follow one another in the months which follow.
  • 1 {{er}} and August 2nd: The simultaneous attacks of the Sioux and Cheyennes on the Bozeman track are pushed back successfully by the American army.
  • August: First arrival of Cattle to Abilene.
  • August 28th: The United States puts the hand on the islands Midway, in the Pacifique.
  • September: The first coach of cattle arrive to Chicago, after Joseph G. McCoy persuaded a railroad company to establish a terminus more in the west. In twenty years, 5,5 million bovines led by 40  000 Cow-boy S will make the voyage of the Texas towards North.
  • November 15th: Organization on the national plan of the “Movement of the Barns” (grouping of farmers) by Oliver Hudson Kelley. It gathers six years later more than one million members.
  • In December, the president Andrew Johnson stigmatizes the black vote.

  • Beginning of the “radical” Rebuilding (1867 - 1868). The ten States concerned, temporarily distributed in five districts under military commands, will have to approve the XIVe amendment and to write new constitutions which will be subjected to the Congress. The right to vote of the Blacks must be registered there. The South is subjected so that he regards as a foreign occupation.
  • Of the commissions of peace is sent of Washington to try to stop the Indian rebellion. The Congress decides to concentrate the Indian tribes in the Dakota (Black Collines) and the Oklahoma.
  • Sitting Bull becomes the chief of the Sioux.
  • Fight for the “Erié” (1867 - 1868), competition without mercy between Cornelius Vanderbilt, owner of the “Central New York Railroad ” and of the “ Hudson to rivet ” with the owners of the “Erié”.
  • Plus of twenty types of industries uses advanced techniques (weapons, farming machine, watches, sewing machines, piano, machine tools, etc).

Latin America

  • Brazil: Inauguration of the railway of Santos in Jundiai (São Paulo) for the transport of the coffee. Installation of the port of Santos.

Asia

  • July 15th: free-Siamese treaty of Bangkok. The Siam gives up its rights on the Kampuchea and recognizes French protectorate, but obtains the provinces of Battambang, Siem Reap and Sisophon. Ratified the October 24th.

  • July: Agreement between the Russian empire and the khanat of Khodjent. General government of the Turkestan, with Tachkent for capital.

  • India: Creation of the '' Maison of the studies '' to Deobanden (in the Uttar Pradesh) by Muhamed Quasian Nanantavi and Maulana Rashid. Deobanden becomes a high place of Islamic studies modernistic.
  • China: The first Chinese immigration in Mandchourie.

Japan

  • February 3rd: Ceremony of accession to the throne of the young emperor Meiji, fifteen years old. Rumors are spread, announcing the promise of better days: hundreds of thousands of people resulting from popular environments dance and sing from Edo in the Kansai. Festive movements of nature millenarist are diffused between Edo and Osaka. In addition, the French ambassador Leon Roche is promoted to advise semi-official new shogun Yoshinobu for the external businesses.

    • the British openly support the parties of Choshu and Satsuma which multiplies the coup attempts of hand on Kyôto. Yoshinobu gathers its troops to avoid the bursting of the country. For the first time the shogun openly takes the weapons against the emperor, who retorts by removing the load of shogun the October 9th.
  • November: Abdication of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the last Shogun. Yoshinobu gives its resignation, but preserves the grounds of Tokugawa in the Kantô, and acted as Prime Minister. Fine of Shogunat Tokugawa. Beginning of the era Meiji, because of emperor Mutsuhito.

  • the Shogun sends a delegation to the World Fair of Paris. The French organizers do not include/understand the direction and the value of works imported of the archipelago, and lay out them in a completely incongruous way for the Japanese. The incident plank the diplomatic catastrophe.

Europe

  • March 5th: Failure of the rising of the Fenian S in Ireland. Although Stephens can count on 40  000 armed sympathizers, supports it Irlando-Americans been lacking and the revolt is blown quickly.
  • Mars: Election legislative in Italy.
  • April 10th: Rattazzi becomes president of the Council in Italy and encourages Garibaldi objectively to assemble a new forwarding to take Rome.

  • April 16th: Organization of the Confederation of Germany of North by Bismarck, which writes a constitution project subjected to the princes and to a constituting Reichstag elected by the vote for all. The twenty-three States recognize with the king of Prussia a hereditary presidency. Sovereigns out of matter financial, legal, nun and school, they depend on the Confederation for the foreign policy, the customs, the currency, the army and the stations. Two rooms, a Reichstag elected by the vote for all and a Bundesrat formed of delegated States, share the legislative power. The king of Prussia names a responsible chancellor in front of him. The customs questions are the competence of Zollparlament made up of deputies of the Reichstag to which joint a representation elected by the vote for all of the States of the South. The Constitution between in force on July 1st.

  • May 11th: with the Conference of London, Napoleon III is seen refusing the duchy of the Luxembourg (in compensation for its neutrality during the Guerre austro-Prussian). The Luxembourg becomes independent and neutral under the guarantee of the powers.
  • July 1st: Bismarck becomes confederal chancellor of the Confédération of Germany of North.
  • August 15th, the United Kingdom: Law of Disraeli widening the electorate, which passes from a million to more than two million (16% of the adult population).
  • August 26th: Gréco-Serb secret treaty of Voeslau. In the search of an alliance against Istanbul, the Greece and the Serbia agree to recognize that the Christian East must have its full autonomy, thus posing the bases of a confederation of the Balkan people.
  • October: Third attempt on Rome of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
  • October 27th: The president of the Italian Council Rattazzi resigns and is replaced by the general Luigi Federico Menabrea.
  • October 29th: French troops unload with Civitavecchia in the Latium to prevent Giuseppe Garibaldi from taking Rome.
  • November 3rd: Battle of Mentana, the pontifical troops of the general Kanzler supported by the French troops of the general of Failly disperse the red last Chemises and stop Giuseppe Garibaldi.

  • the United Kingdom: Appearance of the conservative party (Disraeli) and the liberal party (Gladstone). Disraeli institutes local preserving Associations in order to secure a national base.
  • Slavic Congresses without Polish representation with Moscow.
  • agricultural Crisis in Spain (1867 - 1868). The ruined peasants join the poor ones (15% of the population).
  • Civil code with the Portugal. Abolition of the Capital punishment for civil crimes. Abolition of the right of seniority, which accentuates micropropriété in north.
  • Portugal has 13 banks.
  • Foundation of the company Nestlé with Swiss Vevey in .
  • the Belgian workmen receive the right of coalition and the right to strike.
  • Creation with Naples of the first Italian section of the International worker.
  • Sale of the goods of the Church in Italy (575  000 ha between 1867 and 1880). The small farmers for whom are intended his grounds cannot benefit from it and are soon obliged to sell with the profit middle-class. The operation mobilizes the near total of the national capital.

Austria-Hungary

  • February 18th: Signature with Vienna of the Compromised Austro-Hungarian. The Hungary gains its autonomy. Dualistic state, the Austria and Hungary are linked by the person of their sovereign and common ministries (War, foreign affairs, Finances).
  • February 20th: Gyula Andrássy, president of the Hungarian council (fine in 1871).
  • Mars: The Austro-Hungarian Compromise is adopted ( Ausgleich ). The Hungarian State east restores in the plenitude of its forces. The parliamentary mode bicameral system of April 1848 is restored. The law stipulates “the possession common and inseparable” by the house from the Habsbourg of all the territories placed under its legislative sceptre and “autonomy and the governmental independence of Hungary”, the insurance of its “constitutional public rights”.
  • June 8th: François-Joseph agrees to be made crown with Pest king de Hongrie (fine in 1790).
  • August:
    • Visit of condolences of Napoleon III and Eugenie with Salzburg in August following the death of Maximilien de Habsbourg, emperor of Mexico, carried out the June 16th.
    • the interview of Salzburg considers a bringing together between the Austria and the France. Attempt at formation of a confederation of the States of Germany of the South to block the political unit of Germany.
  • December 11th: Commercial treaty free-Austrian.
  • December 21st: The “laws of December” equip Austria with a liberal mode. But this constitution, favorable to the Germans, causes the dissatisfaction with the Slavic ones. The count Goluchowsky obtains complete autonomy for the Galicie.

  • the Croatia turns over in the dependence of the crown of Hungary. The Croats approach the Serb ones. The bishop of Diakovo, Mgr Josip Strosmajer becomes the chief of the opposition to Hungarian oligarchy.
  • economic Expansion in Austria.
  • the Hungarian railway network counts 4700 km.

France

See also: 1867 in France

Chronologies sets of themes

See also: 1867 in science, 1867 in the railroads, 1867 in sport

Art & culture

See also: 1867 in music, 1867 in literature, 1867 with the theater

Births in 1867

Death in 1867

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