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1867

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Events

January 8 - African-American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia
January 11 - Benito Juarez becomes Mexican president again
February 3 - 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, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia as of July 1. John A. Macdonald becomes the Dominion's first prime minister.
March 30 - Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million (about two cents an acre) by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this "Seward's Folly."
April 1 - Singapore becomes British crown colony.

First running of the Belmont Stakes horse race in Elmont, New York.
Transition from the Edo period to the Meiji period in Japanese History
Pierre Michaux[?] invents the front wheel-driven velocipede, the first mass-produced bicycle.

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