Editing 1867 (section)

=== January–March ===
[[File:CovingtonKY JARoeblingBridge.jpg|thumb|[[January 1]]: [[John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge|Roebling]]'s is the longest [[suspension bridge]].]]
[[File:SuezCanalKantara.jpg|thumb|[[February 17]]: [[Suez Canal]] in use.]]
[[File:Alaska Purchase (hi-res).jpg|thumb|[[March 30]]: Alaska bought by check.]]

* [[January 1]] – The [[John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge|Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge]] opens between [[Cincinnati, Ohio]], and [[Covington, Kentucky]], in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It was renamed after its designer, [[John A. Roebling]], in [[1983]].
* [[January 8]] – [[African-American]] men are granted the right to vote in the [[District of Columbia]].
* [[January 11]] – [[Benito Juárez]] becomes Mexican president again.
* [[January 15]] – [[Regent's Park skating disaster]] in London: 40 people die when ice on a lake breaks.
* [[January 30]] – [[Emperor Kōmei]] of Japan dies suddenly, age 36, leaving his son Mutsuhito to succeed him.
* [[January 31]] – [[Maronite]] nationalist leader [[Youssef Bey Karam]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ehdenfamilytree.org/getperson.php?personID=I1&tree=ehden |title=Youssef Bey Karam on Ehden Family Tree website |access-date=April 10, 2019 |archive-date=March 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329220258/https://www.ehdenfamilytree.org/getperson.php?personID=I1&tree=ehden |url-status=dead }}</ref> leaves [[Lebanon]] aboard a French ship for [[Algeria]].
* [[February 3]] – The late [[Emperor Kōmei]]'s 14-year-old son, Prince Mutsuhito, becomes [[Emperor Meiji]] of Japan in a brief ceremony in [[Kyoto]], ending the [[Late Tokugawa shogunate]].
* [[February 7]] – [[West Virginia University]] is established in [[Morgantown, West Virginia|Morgantown]].
* [[February 13]] – The [[Covering of the Senne]] in [[Brussels]] begins.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Demey|first=Thierry|title=Bruxelles, chronique d'une capitale en chantier|volume=1|location=Brussels|publisher=Paul Legrain/C.F.C.-Editions|year=1990}}</ref>
* [[February 14]] – [[Augusta Institute]] is founded in [[Augusta, Georgia]], later known as [[Morehouse College]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.morehouse.edu/about/legacy.html|title=Morehouse College – Morehouse Legacy|first=Morehouse|last=College|website=www.morehouse.edu|access-date=September 26, 2018|archive-date=September 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927035418/http://www.morehouse.edu/about/legacy.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[February 15]] – [[Johann Strauss II]]'s [[waltz]] ''[[The Blue Danube]]'' (''An der schönen blauen Donau'') is first performed, at a concert of the [[Wiener Männergesang-Verein|Vienna Men's Choral Association]]. Later this year, Strauss will adapt it into its popular purely orchestral version for the [[Exposition Universelle (1867)|Exposition Universelle]] in Paris.
* [[February 19]] – [[Battle of Inlon River]]: The [[Qing dynasty]] defeats the Nien rebels in [[Hubei]], China.
* [[February 22]] – The ''[[Indiana Daily Student]]'' is established at Indiana University in Bloomington.
* [[February 28]] – The [[United States Congress]] forbids taxpayer funding of diplomatic envoys to the [[Holy See]] (Vatican), begun in [[1848]], and breaks off [[Holy See–United States relations|relations]]. Funding resumes, along with relations, in [[1984]].
* [[March]] – The [[University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]] is established (opened one year later).
* [[March 1]] – [[Nebraska]] is admitted as the 37th [[U.S. state]].
* [[March 5]] – The [[Fenian Rising]] breaks out in Ireland.<ref>{{Cite book|editor1=Moody, T. W. |editor2=Martin, F. X. |year=1967|title=The Course of Irish History|publisher=Mercier Press|location=Cork|page=370}}</ref>
* [[March 16]] – An article by [[Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister|Joseph Lister]] outlining his use of [[antiseptic]] [[surgery]] is first published in ''[[The Lancet]]''.
* [[March 23]] – [[William III of the Netherlands]] accepts an offer of 5,000,000 [[Dutch guilder|guilder]]s from [[Napoleon III]] for the sale of [[Luxembourg]], leading to the [[Luxembourg Crisis]].
* [[March 29]] – The [[Constitution of Canada|British North America Act]] receives royal assent, forming the Dominion of Canada, in an event known as the [[Canadian Confederation|Confederation]]. This unites the [[Province of Canada]] ([[Quebec]] and [[Ontario]]), [[New Brunswick]], and [[Nova Scotia]] on [[July 1]]. [[Ottawa]] will become the capital.
* [[March 30]] – [[Alaska Purchase]]: Alaska is purchased for US$7.2&nbsp;million from [[Alexander II of Russia]], about 2 cents/acre ($4.19/km<sup>2</sup>), by [[United States Secretary of State]] [[William H. Seward]]. Newspapers call this ''Seward's Folly''.