| January 8 | Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto |
| January 12 | Leo Tolstoy's "Smert Ioonna Groznogo," premieres in St. Petersburg |
| February 1 | Bricklayers start working 8-hour days |
| February 3 | Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912) |
| February 6 | Peabody Fund forms to promote Black education in South |
| February 9 | Nebraska becomes 37th U.S. state |
| February 13 | Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna |
| February 14 | Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. issues 1st policy |
| February 14 | Morehouse College organizes (Augusta Georgia) |
| February 17 | 1st ship passes through Suez Canal |
| February 17 | Gyula Andressy becomes premier of Hungary |
| March 1 | Howard University, Washington D.C., chartered |
| March 1 | Most of Nebraska becomes 37th U.S. state (expanded later) |
| March 2 | Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico |
| March 2 | Congress passed the 1st Reconstruction Act |
| March 2 | Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead |
| March 2 | U.S. Congress creates the Department of Education |
| March 11 | Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos," premieres in Paris |
| March 11 | Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano) |
| March 12 | Last French troops leave Mexico |
| March 15 | Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university |
| March 23 | Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Johnson's veto |
| March 29 | British North America Act (Canadian constitution) passes |
| March 29 | Congress approves Lincoln Memorial |
| March 30 | U.S. buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 |
| April 1 | Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama |
| April 1 | International Exhibition opens in Paris |
| April 1 | Singapore, Penang and Malakka become British crown colonies |
| April 23 | Queen Victoria and Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel |
| April 24 | Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Virginia streetcars |
| April 25 | Tokyo opens for foreign trade |
| April 27 | Opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris) |
| May 1 | Howard University chartered |
| May 1 | Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration |
| May 7 | Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans |
| May 11 | Treaty of London drawn, concerning Luxembourg |
| May 20 | British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage |
| May 20 | Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria |
| May 23 | Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken) |
| June 12 | Austro-Hungarian Empire forms |
| June 19 | 1st Belmont: J Gilpatrick aboard Ruthless wins in 3:05 |
| June 20 | President Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska |
| June 25 | 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio |
| June 27 | Bank of California opens doors |
| June 29 | Pope Pius IX declares Gorcumse holy martyrs |
| July 1 | Dominion of Canada forms (New Bruns, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec) |
| July 2 | 1st U.S. elevated railroad begins service, New York City |
| July 15 | San Francisco Merchant's Exchange opens |
| July 16 | Amstel Hotel, "the dignified old lady" opens in Amsterdam |
| July 16 | D R Averill patents ready-mixed paint |
| July 16 | Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete |
| July 17 | 1st U.S. dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established |
| July 19 | Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto |
| July 19 | Dutch Red Cross forms |
| July 19 | Reconstruction enacted |
| July 21 | City Gardens on Folsom opens |
| August 1 | Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South |
| August 7 | Battle of Moorefield, WV |
| August 12 | President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton |
| August 15 | 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England |
| August 22 | Fisk University forms, 1867 |
| August 28 | U.S. occupies Midway Islands in Pacific |
| September 1 | Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School |
| September 2 | 1st Girl School opens in Haarlem, Netherlands |
| September 9 | Luxembourg gains independence |
| September 12 | 2nd synagogue in Curacao, Emanu-El of Willemstad, inaugurated |
| September 13 | General E R S Canby orders South Carolina courts to impanel blacks jurors |
| September 16 | Ottawa Rough Riders and Senators play Canadian Football game |
| September 25 | Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Washington D.C. |
| September 28 | Toronto becomes capital of Ontario |
| September 30 | Midway Islands formally declared a U.S. possession |
| October 1 | Karl Marx' "Das Kapital," published |
| October 5 | Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska |
| October 14 | 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun resigns in Japan |
| October 16 | Alaska adopts Gregorian calendar, crosses International date line |
| October 18 | U.S. takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia |
| October 27 | Garibaldi marches on Rome |
| October 28 | Maimonides College in Penns is 1st Jewish college in the US |
| October 29 | Mail packets "Rhone" and "Wye" capsizes off St. Thomas Virgin Islands |
| November 1 | "Harpers Bazaar" publishes |
| November 3 | Battle at Mentana: French/pontifical troops beat Garibaldi |
| November 4 | 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall |
| November 25 | Alfred Nobel patents dynamite |
| November 25 | U.S. Congress commission looks into "impeachment" of President Andrew Johnson |
| November 26 | Refrigerated railroad car patented by J. B. Sutherland |
| December 4 | Grange organized to protect farm interests |
| December 23 | 1st self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove-hair straightner) |
| December 27 | Ontario and Quebec legislatures hold 1st meeting |
| December 29 | 1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck and Co, New York |
