Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s - 1860s - 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
Years: 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 - 1867 - 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872
Events
- January 8 - African-American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia
- January 11 - Benito Juarez becomes Mexican president again
- February 3 - 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, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia as of July 1. John A. Macdonald becomes the Dominion's first prime minister.
- March 30 - Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million (about two cents an acre) by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this "Seward's Folly."
- April 1 - Singapore becomes British crown colony.
- 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.
Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy
Births
- January 8 - Emily Greene Balch[?], winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1946 (+ 1961)
- January 17 - Carl Laemmle[?], film executive (+ 1939)
- January 21 - Ludwig Thoma[?], narrator, dramatist and lyricist (+ 1921)
- January 21 - Maxime Weygand, French General
- February 7 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author + (1957)
- February 11 - August W Messer[?], German philosopher/educator/psychologist.
- February 18 - Hedwig Courths-Mahler[?], novelist (+ 1950)
- March 25 - Arturo Toscanini, conductor (+ 1957)
- March 29 - Cy Young, United States baseball player
- April 2 - Eugene Sandow[?], body builder, circus performer (+ 1925)
- May 6, Mary of Teck, later Queen Consort of George V of the United Kingdom
- May 14 - Kurt Eisner[?], politician and publicist (+ 1919)
- May 26 - Mary of Teck (+ 1953)
- August 22 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and Muesli[?] inventor (+ 1939)
- November 7 - Marie Curie, Scientist and Nobel Prize winner due to research in the field of radioactivity.
Deaths
- May 12 - Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist
- August 31 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, French poet and writer
- Emperor Komei of Japan
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