1869

1869 is a Common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar).

Years: 1866 1867 1868 - 1869 - 1870 1871 1872

Decades: 1830s 1840s 1850s - 1860s - 1870s 1880s 1890s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1869 in topic: Arts Architecture - Art - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Rail transport - Science - South Africa - Sport Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths

Events

• March 1 - North German Confederation issues 10gr and 30gr value stamps, printed on goldbeater's skin
• May 4 - Naval Battle of Hakodate in Japan.
• May 10 - Transcontinental Railroad completed at Promontory, Utah.
• May 15 - Woman's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman's Suffrage Association.
• May 26 - Last public Hanging in Britain - Fenian bomber Michael Barrett
• May 29 - British parliament passes the Capital Punishment within Prisons Bill ending public hanging
• August 4/12 - Emperor Norton I of the United States abolished both the Democratic and 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 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 is published.
• November 6 - The first 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 - Triple Alliance forces take Asuncion

• Basutoland becomes British Protectorate
• British parliament ends transportation to Australia as punishment
• Venancio Flores murdered in Montevideo
• Ulysses S. Grant succeeds Andrew Johnson as President of the United States of America.
• 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 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, Hizen and 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.
• The Roman Catholic Church prohibits Abortion under any circumstance.
• "Michigan relics" appear

Births

• January 4 - Tommy Corcoran, baseball player (d. 1960)
• January 10 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic (d. 1916)
• January 15 - 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, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
• March 5 - 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 20 - John Stone Stone, physicist and inventor (d. 1943)
• June 17 - Flora Finch, comedienne (d. 1940)
• August 10 - Lawrence Binyon, English poet and scholar (d. 1943)
• September 3 - Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist, 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 22 - André Gide, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951)
• November 25 - Herbert Greenfield, Premier of Alberta (d. 1949)
• November 30 - Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
• December 30 - Stephen Leacock, British-Canadian author and economist (d. 1944)
• December 31 - Henri Matisse, French painter (d. 1954)

Deaths

• 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)
• October 13 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (b. 1804)
• December 18 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk American composer and pianist (b. 1829)