1867 in science

The year 1867 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.

Ecology

• Gorse naturalised in New Zealand, soon becomes worst invasive weed.

Economics

• Publication of the first volume of Das Kapital by Karl Marx.

Geology

• At historic Fountain Point, Michigan, artesian water spring gushes continuously till present day.

Medicine

• March 16 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.
• July 17 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established as the first dental school in the United States.
• Yellow fever kills 3093 in New Orleans.

Technology

• January 1 - The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky, becoming the longest suspension bridge in the world.
• February 17 - The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
• July 2 - First elevated railroad in the United States begins service in New York.
• Pierre Michaux invents the front wheel-driven velocipede, the first mass-produced bicycle.

Awards

• Copley Medal: Karl Ernst von Baer
• Wollaston Medal: George Poulett Scrope

Births

• November 7 - Marie Curie (d. 1934), physicist.

Deaths

• August 25 - Michael Faraday (b. 1791), chemist and physicist.