Year (''' MDCCCLXVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Sunday of the of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
: Roebling Suspension Bridge was longest.]]
- February 3 - Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu abdicates, and the late Emperor Kōmei 's son, Prince Mutsuhito becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan. End of the Late Tokugawa Shogunate .
- February 7 - West Virginia University is established in Morgantown, West Virginia .
- February 17 - The first ship passes through the Suez Canal .
- February 19 - The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Rocky Mount , first settled in 1816 and named for a rocky mound at the base of the nearby Tar River falls.
- 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 and 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 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km&2), by United States Secretary Of State William H. Seward . The news media call this " Seward's Folly ."
: Alaska bought by check.]]
- Publication of the first volume of Das Kapital by Karl Marx .
- 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 938,000 to an electorate of 1,057,000 in England and Wales.
- South Africa n Diamond fields discovered.
- Fenian rising in Ireland .
- Asa Mercer travels to East Coast to recruit more " Mercer Girls " to Seattle .
- Prohibition National Committee formed.
- Wasps R.F.C. formed in Middlesex , England (see London Wasps and Wasps FC ).
- Gorse naturalised in New Zealand, soon becomes worst invasive weed.
- At historic Fountain Point , Michigan , Artesian Water Spring gushes continuously till present day.
- A Japanese ship crosses the Pacific ocean for the first time, to San Francisco.
- 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 - Rubén Darío , Nicaraguan poet (d. 1916 )
- January 20 - Yvette Guilbert , French singer and actress (d. 1944 )
- January 21
- --- Ludwig Thoma , German writer (d. 1921 )
- --- Maxime Weygand , French general (d. 1965 )
- 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, Née Ingalls , American children's author (d. February 10 , 1957 )
- February 21 - Otto Hermann Kahn , German-born millionaire and philanthropist (d. 1934 )
- February 27 - Wilhelm Peterson-Berger , Swedish composer (d. 1942 )
- 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
- --- René Boylesve , French author (d. 1926 )
- --- Wilbur Wright , American aviation pioneer (d. 1912 )
- 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 - Władysław 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 28 - Luigi Pirandello , Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936 )
- July 8 - Käthe Kollwitz , German artist (d. 1945 )
- July 10 - Prince Maximilian Of Baden , Chancellor Of Germany (d. 1929 )
- July 18 - Margeret'Molly'Brown , Titanic Survivor
- 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 - Charles Ballantyne , Canadian politician (d. 1950 )
- 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 28 - Kiichiro Hiranuma , 35th Prime Minister Of Japan (d. 1952 )
- October 25 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki , 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 )
- December 5 - Józef Piłsudski , Polish statesman andfield marshal (d. 1935 )
- December 23 - Madam C.J. Walker , first African-American millionaire (d. 1919 )
- December 24 - Kantaro Suzuki , 42nd Prime Minister Of Japan (d. 1948 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Thomas Coward , ornithologist (d. 1933 ) Altrincham History Society
- --- Sam Mussabini , Sports coach
: ''See also .''
- July 31 - Benoît Fourneyron , French engineer and inventor of the turbine (b. 1802 )
- 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 )
- October 9 - Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński , composer (b. 1807 )
- December 1 - Filaret, Metropolitan Of Moscow , Russian Orthodox leader (b. 1782 )
- December 26 . - József Kossics , Catholic priest, writer, and ethnologist (b. 1788 )
: ''See also .''
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