The World in 1867 the year the map got redrawn on paper

Alaska cost 7.2 million dollars for 586,000 square miles, about two cents an acre. It is more than twice the size of Texas, and most Americans thought it was a waste of money.

Life back then

Paris spent the summer showing off. The exhibition on the Champ de Mars filled a huge oval hall with machines, and visiting kings and sultans queued to see them. Outside, young men were wobbling around on the newest toy in the city, a wooden velocipede with pedals bolted to the front wheel. It had iron tyres and no brakes worth the name, and riders called it the boneshaker. Within two years the craze had reached New York, London and Sydney.

The year in 8 events

• 🎵Feb 15 A choir in Vienna sings a new waltz by Johann Strauss called The Blue Danube. It goes down badly.
• ⚖️Mar 2 Congress passes the Reconstruction Acts over the president's veto and puts the southern states under army rule.
• 🗺️Mar 30 The United States agrees to buy Alaska from Russia.
• 🎡Apr 1 The Paris exhibition opens and runs until November.
• 🕯️Jun 19 Maximilian, the Austrian archduke installed as emperor of Mexico, is shot by a firing squad at Queretaro.
• 🍁Jul 1 Four British colonies join up as the Dominion of Canada, with Ottawa as the capital.
• 🗳️Aug 15 Britain's Second Reform Act becomes law and roughly doubles the number of men who can vote.
• 📕Sep 14 The first volume of Das Kapital by Karl Marx is printed in Hamburg. It sells slowly.

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