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| 1867 |
| | | The US Congress passes Reconstruction Acts, dividing the defeated South into military districts and insisting on elections by universal male suffrage | |
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| 1867 |
| | | Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria, is also crowned king of Hungary – to become ruler of the 'dual monarchy' of Austria-Hungary | |
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| 1867 |
| | | Maximilian, the emperor of Mexico, and two of his generals are shot after being surrounded and captured at Querétaro | |
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| 1867 |
| | | French author Paul Verlaine wins a reputation with his first published collection, Poémes saturniens ('Saturnine Poems') | |
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| 1867 |
| | | The first volume of Das Kapital is completed by Marx in London and is published in Hamburg | |
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| 1867 |
| | | The world's first croquet tournament takes place in Evesham and is won by Walter Jones-Whitmore | |
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| 1867 |
| | | The invention of barbed wire is patented in the USA by Lucien Smith, designed to fence in cattle but also a protection for the wheat fields of the midwest plains | |
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| 1867 |
| | | Four former colonies (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec) unite to form the new nation of Canada with Ottawa as the capital | |
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| 1867 |
| | | The Canadian nation is called the Dominion of Canada – the first example of 'dominion status' | |
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| 1867 |
| | | Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Grange as a social organization to benefit US farmers | |
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