1867

Events from the year 1867 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Andrew Johnson (D-TN)
* Vice President: vacant
* Chief Justice: Salmon P. Chase (OH)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Schuyler Colfax (R-IN)
* Congress: 39th (until March 4), 40th (starting March 4)
==Events==
===January - March===
* January 1 – The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky, becoming the longest suspension bridge in the world.
* January 8 – African-American men are granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.
* February 7
** West Virginia University is established in Morgantown, West Virginia.
** Laura Ingalls Wilder is born near Pepin, Wisconsin
* March 1 – Nebraska admitted becomes the 37th U.S. state.
* March 2 – The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is established (it opens for classes on March 2, 1868).
* March 30 – Alaska Purchase signed.
===April - June===
* May 28 – Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million from Alexander II of Russia, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this "Seward's Folly."
* June 15 – The Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode mine is named in Montana.
* June 29 – Kidder massacre: A Sioux and Cheyenne war party kills U.S. Second Lieutenant Lyman Kidder, along with an Indian scout and ten enlisted men in Kansas.
===July - September===
* July 2 – The first elevated railroad in USA begins service in New York.
* July 17 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established as the first dental school in the United States.
* September 30 – The United States takes control of Midway Island.
===October - December===
* October 18 – U.S. takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, paying $7.2 million.
* 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 to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
* November 15 – Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as The Grange).
* December 2 – In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
* December 18 – 49 people are killed in a train crash in Angola, New York.
==Memoriam==
* January 20 – Nathaniel Parker Willis, author, poet and editor (aged 61; Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY, USA)
* February 2 – Forceythe Willson, poet (aged 29; Alfred, NY, USA)
* February 6 – Henry Lee, merchant, political economist and politician (aged 85; Boston, MA, USA)
* March 6 – Charles Farrar Browne ("Artemus Ward"), humorist (aged 32; Southampton, England, UK)
* March 16 – Benjamin Hanby, songwriter (aged 33; Chicago, IL, USA)
* March 29 – George R. Riddle, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1864 to 1867 (aged 50; Washington, DC, USA)
* April 3 – George W. Randolph, lawyer, planter, Confederate general, 3rd Confederate States Secretary of War (aged 49; Charlottesville, VA, USA)
* May 11 – Joseph A. Wright, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1862 to 1863 (aged 57; Berlin, Prussia (Now Germany))
* May 27 – Thomas Bulfinch, collector of myths and legends (aged 70; Boston, MA, USA)
* July 3 – Lazarus W. Powell, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1859 to 1865 (aged 54; Henderson County, KY, USA)
* July 31 – Catharine Sedgwick, novelist (aged 77; Boston, MA, USA)
* September 3 – James A. McDougall, U.S. Senator from California from 1861 to 1867 (aged 49; Albany, NY, USA)
* September 23 – Michael O'Laughlen, Conspirator in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (aged 27; Fort Jefferson, FL, USA)
* September 26 – James Ferguson, Scottish-born astronomer and engineer (aged 70; Washington, DC, USA)
* September 29 – Sterling Price, 11th Governor of Missouri, United States Army brigadier general in the Mexican–American War, Confederate Army major general in the American Civil War (aged 58; Sterling, MO, USA)
* October 7 – Henry Timrod, poet (aged 38; Columbia, SC, USA)
* November 19 – Fitz-Greene Halleck, poet (aged 77; Guilford, CT, USA)
* December 3 – Margaret Lea Houston, First Lady of the Republic of Texas (aged 48; Independence, TX, USA)
==External links==
* 1867 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 9