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Years: 1864 1865 1866 - 1867 - 1868 1869 1870
Decades: 1830s 1840s 1850s - 1860s - 1870s 1880s 1890s
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Events

January 8 - African-American men 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 two cents an acre) by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this "Seward's Folly."
April 1 - Strait Settlement of Singapore becomes a Crown Colony under the jurisdiction of the Colonial Office in London
May 29 - Austro-Hungarian agreement called "the Compromise" is born through Act 12, which established the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy; on June 8 Emperor Francis Joseph was crowned King of Hungary
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.
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.
December 2 - In a New York City theater, British author 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).

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.
Otto von Bismarck organises a North German Confederation under the leadership of Prussia
Yellow fever kills 3093 in New Orleans
War of the Triple Alliance in Paraguay
Second Reform Bill by Disraeli enfranchises many working men and adds 938000 to an electorate of 1057000 in England and Wales
South African diamond fields discovered
Fenian rising in Ireland

Births

January 8 - Emily Greene Balch, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1946 (d. 1961)
January 17 - Carl Laemmle, film executive (d. 1939)
January 18 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet (d. 1916)
January 21 - Ludwig Thoma, narrator, dramatist and lyricist (d. 1921)
January 21 - Maxime Weygand, French General
February 7 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (d. 1957)
February 11 - August W Messer, German philosopher/educator/psychologist.
February 18 - Hedwig Courths-Mahler, novelist (d. 1950)
February 21 - Otto Hermann Kahn, millionaire and benefactor (d. 1934)
March 25 - Arturo Toscanini, conductor (d. 1957)
March 29 - Cy Young, United States baseball player
April 2 - Eugene Sandow, body builder, circus performer (d. 1925).
April 7 - Holger Pedersen, Dutch linguist (d. 1953)
April 9 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941)
April 16 – René Boylesve, French author (d. 1926)
April 16 - Wilbur Wright of the Wright brothers, American co-inventor of the airplane.
May 6 - Mary of Teck, later Queen Consort of George V of the United Kingdom
May 14 - Kurt Eisner, politician and publicist (d. 1919)
May 26 - Mary of Teck (d. 1953)
June 8 - Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (d. 1959)
June 28 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (d. 1936)
July 28 - Charles Dillon Perrine, astronomer (d. 1951)
August 12 - Edith Hamilton, educator and author
August 22 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and Muesli inventor (d. 1939)
October 31 - David Graham Phillips, journalist / novelist (d. 1911)
November 7 - Marie Curie, Scientist and Nobel Prize winner due to research in the field of radioactivity.
December 23 - Madame C. J. Walker, first african american millionaire.

Deaths

January 14 - Jean Auguste Ingres, painter
January 30 - Emperor Komei of Japan
May 12 - Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist
June 19 - Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico (executed)
August 25 - Michael Faraday, chemist and physicist (b. 1791)
August 31 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, French poet and writer
September 10 - Simon Sechter, music teacher

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