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1867 in the United States
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1840s 1850s – 1860s – 1870s 1880s
Years:	1864 1865 1866 – 1867 – 1868 1869 1870
Flag:	37 stars; (1867 – 1877)

Events from the year 1867 in the United States.

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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.
March – The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign is established (opened 1 year later).
March 1 – Nebraska is admitted as the 37th U.S. state.
March 30 – 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 2 – The first elevated railroad in the United States 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 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.

Yellow fever kills 3,093 in New Orleans.
The Prohibition National Committee is formed in the United States.
At historic Fountain Point, Michigan, an artesian water spring gushes continuously till the present day.
1867–1873 – Chinese, Scandinavian and Irish immigrants lay 30,000 miles (48,000 km) of railroad tracks in the USA.
Clarke School for the Deaf in Western 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".