History

Century

History of Watchmaking

The Canadian engineer Sandford Fleming proposed the introduction of clearly delimited time zones.

World history

War broke out between France and Prussia. Siege of Paris by the Prussians.
Liberation of Rome.

Swiss history

1867. Karl Marx wrote in Capital that La Chaux-de-Fonds should be considered as a single manufacture.
The Fabrique was a victim of foreign competition which adapted better to a market that rated quantity over quality.


Art and Culture

Inauguration of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Modest Moussorgsky presented Boris Godunov for Imperial censorship.