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| South America & Caribbean:Maximillian's short empire ends in Mexico before a firing squad, ending Napoleon III's dream of a Latin American Empire. Paraguay's war against a South America Colition drags on as disease kills more than the war. | |||||||||||
| North America:The Dominion of Canada is formed, uniting Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec under the British North America Act.Russia sells Alaska to the United states for 1.9 cents per acre. Nebraska admitted to the United States. The Knights of the White Camilia, similar to the two year old Ku Klux Klan, is formed in Louisiana. Congress investigates high profits in the railroad business connecting east and west coasts. It also appoints a commission to conclude peace treaties with Native Americans. Vanderbilt controls the New York Central railroad through manipulation. Construction begins on engineer James Buchanan Eads' bridge at St. Louis. It will take seven years, $7million and 12 lives. Free public school system in New York. Universities of Illinois and West Virginia. Howard University and Atlanta University open as institutes of higher learning for blacks. General O.O. Howard has been director of the Freedman's Bureau. First typewriter designed in Milwaukee. Horation Alger's Ragged Dick, or Streeet Life in New York; popular music Little Brown Jug by Adams. Baseball teams still amateur, Belmont Stakes first run. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Suffrage extended to renters in Britain, but not to women. A short uprising in Ireland has its start in America. Austro-Hungarian monarchy splits and will last until 1918. A northern Germany confederation is formed under Prussia's Count von Bismarck. Das Kapital by Karl Marx. First practical dry cell battery by French engineer. Paperback books born in Germany; Fiction by Emile Zola, Anthony Trollope; painting by Manet, Cezanne; theatre by Tolsto; opera by Verdi, Offenbach; music Blue Danube Waltz by Strauss. | |||||||||||
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January 1867
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February 1867
The Comus parade marches as the Triumph of Epicurus in which maskers were costumed as a three course dinner. Disguised in paper-mache figures of such delicacies as a bottle of sherry, coffee, cigars, raw oysters and mutton in course after course. Parades had not been staged for the last four years because of Federal occupation. |
March 1867
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April 1867
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May 1867
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June 1867
June 3 James Madison Wells is removed from office by General Sheridan, now Commander of the 5th Military District, for being an impediment to reconstruction, Wells goes home to Rapides Parish. Sheridan appoints Benjamin Franklin Flanders governor of Louisiana. Major General Philip H. Sheridan holds this post from June 9 to September 5, 1867 |
July 1867
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August 1867
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September 1867
The Commander of the 5th Military District changes twice in September 1867: Brevet Major General Charles Griffin (September 5-15 1867) and Brevet Major General Joseph A. Mower (September 15 to November 29 1867) do the honors. |
October 1867
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November 1867
November 23, 1867 to March 9, 1868; A state constitutional convention is held. |
December 1867
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| John Archer Lejeune (1867-1942) is born in Innis, La. He Commanded the 2nd Division of the AEF during WWI; became Commandant of USMC; and was superintendent of VMI (1929-1937). | |||||||||||
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