Events from the year 1867 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Andrew Johnson (D-Tennessee) Vice President: vacant Chief Justice: Salmon P. Chase (Ohio) Speaker of the House of Representatives: Schuyler Colfax (R-Indiana) 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 – The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is established (it opens for classes on March 2, 1868). March 1 – Nebraska is admitted as the 37th U.S. state (see History of Nebraska).
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 the U.S. 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.
Undated
Yellow fever kills 3,093 in New Orleans. At historic Fountain Point, Michigan, an artesian water spring gushes continuously until the present day. 1867–1873 – Chinese, Scandinavian and Irish immigrants lay of railroad tracks in the United States. Clarke School for the Deaf in Northampton, Massachusetts opens its doors for the first time, becoming the first school for the deaf in the United States to teach deaf children how to communicate with others using the "oral method".
Ongoing
Reconstruction era (1865–1877)