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
