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1869
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'''1869 (MDCCCLXIX)''' is a
common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar or a
common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower
Julian calendar.
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'''Years:''' 1866 1867 1868 -
1869 -
1870 1871 1872
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'''Decades:''' 1830s 1840s 1850s - '''
1860s''' -
1870s 1880s 1890s
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'''Centuries:''' 18th century - '''
19th century''' -
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Events
January—June
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January 20 -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is the first woman to testify before the
United States Congress.
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March 1 -
North German Confederation issues 10
groschen gr and 30gr value stamps, printed on
goldbeater's skin
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March 4 -
Ulysses S. Grant succeeds
Andrew Johnson as
President of the United States of America.
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April 8 -
The American Museum of Natural History opens in New York.
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May -
Naval Battle of Hakodate in Japan.
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May 6 -
Purdue University founded in
West Lafayette, Indiana.
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May 10 -
First Transcontinental Railroad (North America) Transcontinental Railroad completed at Promontory, Utah.
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May 15 -
Woman's suffrage: In
New York,
Susan B. Anthony and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the
National Woman's Suffrage Association.
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May 26 - Last public
hanging in
United Kingdom Britain -
Fenians Fenian bomber
Michael Barrett
*
May 29 - British parliament passes the Capital Punishment within Prisons Bill ending public hanging
*
June 15 - John Wesley Hyatt patents the first plastic,
Celluloid, in Albany, New York.
July—December
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July 4 -
University of Bucharest is founded.
*
August 4'''/'''
August 12 -
Joshua A. Norton Emperor Norton I of the United States abolished both the
United States Democratic Party Democratic and
United States Republican Party Republican parties.
*
August 9 -
August Bebel and
Wilhelm Liebknecht founded the
Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (SDAP)
*
August 20 -
Abergele Train Disaster - ''Irish Mail'' passenger train collides with cargo trucks loaded with paraffin - 33 dead; First major train disaster in Britain
*
August 31 -
Mary Ward (scientist) Mary Ward is killed in a
car accident, possibly the first person ever to suffer this fate
*
September 11 - Work completed on the
Wallace Monument
*
October 16 - England's first residential college for women,
Girton College, is founded.
*
November 4 - The first issue of scientific journal ''
Nature (journal) Nature'' is published.
*
November 6 - The first
College American football intercollegiate American football game is played. Rutgers defeats Princeton, 6 to 4.
*
November 17 - In
Egypt, the
Suez Canal, linking the
Mediterranean Sea with the
Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.
*
November 23 - In
Dumbarton,
Scotland the clipper ship ''
Cutty Sark'' is launched (it was one of the last
clipper ships to be built, and the only one surviving to the present day).
*
December 10 - First American chapter of
Kappa Sigma founded at the
University of Virginia.
*
December 31 -
War of the Triple Alliance Triple Alliance forces take
Asuncion
Unknown dates
*
Basutoland becomes British
protectorate
* British parliament ends transportation to
Australia as punishment
*
Venancio Flores murdered in
Montevideo
* Fire burns down about 75% of
Hancock, Michigan
*
Mahbub Ali Pasha begins a 42 year reign as
Nizam of Hyderabad
*
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. of the
New York Herald, asks
Henry Morton Stanley to go and find
David Livingstone Dr Livingstone, despite him not being lost or in difficulty.
* The
Meiji Emperor of Japan accepts the surrender of the four most powerful clans (
Choshu,
Tosa Province Tosa,
Hizen Province Hizen and
Satsuma Province Satsuma) and reappoints the clan chiefs as Provincial Governors, on reduced revenues.
* Invention of barbed wire, see
ranching.
*
H. J. Heinz Company established.
*
Abdur Rahman Khan is exiled from
Afghanistan.
* "
Michigan relics" appear
* Goldman Sachs and Co. was founded
Births
*
January 1 -
Sigma Nu, First Anti-Hazing Honor/Social Fraternity
*
January 4 -
Tommy Corcoran, baseball player (d.
1960)
*
January 10 -
Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic (d.
1916)
*
January 15 -
Stanislaw Wyspianski Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (d.
1907)
*
February 11 -
Helene Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder and patron of the arts (d.
1939)
*
February 14 -
Charles Wilson (physicist) Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1959)
*
March 3 -
Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal and archbishop (d.
1952)
*
March 14 -
Algernon Blackwood, English writer (d.
1951)
*
March 18 -
Neville Chamberlain,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d.
1940)
*
March 21 -
Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer (d.
1932)
*
April 2 -
Hughie Jennings, baseball player (d.
1928)
*
April 4 -
Mary Colter, American architect (d.
1958)
*
April 8 -
Harvey Cushing, American neurosurgeon (d.
1939)
*
April 11 -
Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d.
1943)
*
May 5 -
Hans Pfitzner, German composer (d.
1949)
*
May 20 -
John Stone Stone, American physicist and inventor (d.
1943)
*
June 17 -
Flora Finch, English-born comedienne (d.
1940)
*
June 27 -
Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1941)
*
August 10 -
Lawrence Binyon, English poet and scholar (d.
1943)
*
September 3 -
Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1930)
*
September 17 -
Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1938)
*
September 23 -
Mary Mallon, "Typhoid Mary" (d.
1938)
*
October 2 -
Mohandas Gandhi, founder of the modern Indian state and proponent of nonviolence (d.
1948)
*
October 25 -
John Heisman, American football coach (d.
1936)
*
November 10 -
Wayne Wheeler, American
temperance movement leader (d.
1927)
*
November 11 -
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (d.
1947)
*
November 22 -
André Gide, French writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1951)
*
November 25 -
Herbert Greenfield,
Premier of Alberta (d.
1949)
*
November 30 -
Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1937)
*
December 16 -
Hristo Tatarchev,
Bulgarian revolutionary, leader of the revolutionary movement in
Macedonia and
Eastern Thrace
*
December 30 -
Stephen Leacock, British-Canadian author and economist (d.
1944)
*
December 31 -
Henri Matisse, French painter (d.
1954)
Deaths
*
January 30 -
William Carleton, Irish novelist (b.
1794)
*
March 8 -
Hector Berlioz, French composer (b.
1803)
*
March 24 -
Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b.
1779)
*
April 20 -
Carl Loewe, German composer (b.
1796)
*
May 11 -
Hijikata Toshizou, 2nd commander of the
Shinsengumi (b.
1835)
*
June 16 -
Charles Sturt, Australian explorer (b.
1795)
*
October 13 -
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (b.
1804)
*
December 18 -
Louis Moreau Gottschalk American composer and pianist (b.
1829)
Fiction
*
December 24 - The events of the
Doctor Who episode
The Unquiet Dead occur.
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