We can see the general characteristics of the earlier decade if we look at two poems of very different qualities: `` Revulsion '' ( 1866 ) and `` Neutral Tones '' ( 1867 ).

Alaska was purchased from Russia on March 30, 1867, for $ 7. 2 million ($ adjusted for inflation ) at approximately two cents per acre ($ 4. 74 / km² ).

* 1867 – The United States takes possession of the, at this point unoccupied, Midway Atoll.

The Reform Act 1867 extended the franchise by 938, 427 – an increase of 88 % – by giving the vote to male householders and male lodgers paying at least 10 pounds for rooms and eliminating rotten boroughs with fewer than 10, 000 inhabitants, and granting constituencies to fifteen unrepresented towns, and extra representation in parliament to larger towns such as Liverpool and Manchester, which had previously been under-represented in Parliament.

In 1867, the Marquess of Queensberry rules were drafted by John Chambers for amateur championships held at Lillie Bridge in London for Lightweights, Middleweights and Heavyweights.

Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G. Berry ( 1867 – 1928 ), a junior librarian at Oxford's Bodleian library, who had suggested the more limited paradox arising from the expression " the first undefinable ordinal ".

In the spring of the following year, Ward's health gave way and he died of tuberculosis at Southampton on March 6, 1867.

From 1866 to 1867, Haeckel made an extended journey to the Canary Islands with Hermann Fol and during this period, met with Charles Darwin, in 1866 at Down House in Kent, Thomas Huxley and Charles Lyell.

In 1858 he was hired as full professor at the University of Ghent, then in 1867 he was called to Bonn, where he remained for the rest of his career.

In 1867, Cantor completed his dissertation, on number theory, at the University of Berlin.

Graduating from Christ Church, Oxford, as a Westminster scholar in 1860, he was entered at Lincoln's Inn but gave his attention chiefly to drama, producing Diamonds and Hearts at the Haymarket Theatre in 1867 ; this was followed by other light comedies.

Modern usage of the term intellectual property goes back at least as far as 1867 with the founding of the North German Confederation whose constitution granted legislative power over the protection of intellectual property ( Schutz des geistigen Eigentums ) to the confederation.

The pamphlet on the Eucharist was also reprinted at Toulouse, in 1835, under the title of Quatre Lettres sur la Trans-substantiation, and appeared in an English translation, by John W. Hamersley, as the Chemical Change in the Eucharist, 1867.

The first excavation at Tell as-Sultan was carried out in 1867, and the monasteries of St. George of Koziba and John the Baptist were refounded and completed in 1901 and 1904, respectively.

* Garrigan, Shelley E. Collecting Mexico: Museums, Monuments, and the Creation of National Identity ( University of Minnesota Press ; 2012 ) 233 pages ; scholarly analysis of Mexico's self-image, 1867 – 1910, using public monuments, fine-arts collecting, museums, and Mexico's representation at the Paris world's fair

During the latter half of the 1940s, Friedman began a collaboration with Anna Schwartz, an economic historian at the Bureau, that would ultimately result in the 1963 publication of a book co-authored by Friedman and Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867 – 1960.

Some important events of this revival were the writings of Phoebe Palmer during the mid-19th century, the establishment of the first of many holiness camp meetings at Vineland, New Jersey in 1867, and the founding of Asbury College ( 1890 ), and other similar institutions in the US around the turn of the 20th century.

Prince Edward Island did not find the terms of union favourable and balked at joining in 1867, choosing to remain a colony of the United Kingdom.

* St. Paul Baptist Church-Founded in 1867 by former slave Elijah Barnes, registered at the state and federal level as the second oldest African American Baptist Church in the state.

In 1867 an attempt at weight reduction by removing part of the front and rear peaks did not prove successful.

The Province of Canada ceased to exist at Canadian Confederation on July 1, 1867, when it was redivided into the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

A pear tree that he reputedly brought from the Netherlands in 1647 remained at the corner of Thirteenth Street and Third Avenue until 1867, bearing fruit almost to the last.

The first French translation, of 464 quatrains in prose, was made by J. B. Nicolas, chief interpreter at the French Embassy in Persia in 1867.

* 1867 – Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer ( d. 1912 )

* 1867 – Cupid Childs, American baseball player ( d. 1912 )

* 1867 – James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat ( d. 1951 )

* 1867 – Jake Beckley, American baseball player ( d. 1918 )

Frequently referred to as " Canada's birthday ", particularly in the popular press, the occasion marks the joining of the British North American colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Province of Canada into a federation of four provinces ( the Province of Canada being divided, in the process, into Ontario and Quebec ) on July 1, 1867.

He was elected a resident fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in January 1867.

Denton True " Cy " Young ( March 29, 1867 – November 4, 1955 ) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher.

Frank Lloyd Wright ( born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959 ) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1, 000 structures and completed 500 works.

* 1867 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author ( d. 1957 )

* 1867 – Irving Fisher, American economist ( d. 1947 )

* 1867 – John Robert Gregg, American educator, publisher, and humanitarian, invented the Gregg shorthand ( d. 1948 )

* 1867 – Stephen Mather, American entrepreneur and industrialist ( d. 1930 )

* 1840 – Michael O ' Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln ( d. 1867 )

* 1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designer, writer, and educator, designed the Fallingwater ( d. 1959 )

* 1819 – Elias Howe, American inventor, invented the sewing machine ( d. 1867 )

* 1867 – African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D. C.

* 1867 – Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate ( d. 1961 )

* 1796 – Thomas Bulfinch, American writer ( d. 1867 )

* 1867 – Margaret Brown, American philanthropist and activist, RMS Titanic survivor ( d. 1932 )

* Richardson, Albert, Beyond the Mississippi, Hartford, Conn .; American Publishing Co., 1867.

* Katherine Mayo ( 1867 – 1940 ), American writer and journalist

* 1867 – John Exley, American rower ( d. 1938 )

* 1867 – Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor ( d. 1941 )

* 1867 – Florenz Ziegfeld, American theater producer ( d. 1932 )