1869

Decades: 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s - 1860s - 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s

Years: 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 - 1869 - 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874

Events

• Invention of barbed wire, see ranching.
• 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.
• August 4/12 - Emperor Norton I of the United States abolished both the Democratic and Republican parties.
• 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).
• 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 Bennet 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|Tosa]], Hizen and Satsuma) and reappoints the clan chiefs as Provincial Governers, on reduced revenues

Year in topic

• 1869 in literature
• 1869 in science

Births

• January 10 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic.
• February 11 - Helene Kroller-Muller Dutch museum founder and patron of the arts.
• February 14 - Charles Wilson, physicist
• March 5 - Michael von Faulhaber, cardinal and archbishop (d. 1952)
• March 14 - Algernon Blackwood, writer (d. 1951)
• March 18 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940)
• March 21 - Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer (+ 1932)
• April 8 - Harvey Cushing, American neurosurgeon (+ 1939)
• April 11 - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor
• May 14 - Friedrich Karl Kleine, physician (d. 1951)
• August 10 - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar
• September 2 - Fritz Pregl, chemist (Nobel prize 1923)
• September 23 - Mary Mallon, Irish domestic servant and cook , later famous carrier of Typhoid fever.
• October 2 - Mohandas Gandhi, Founder of the modern Indian state, the original proponent of non-violence in modern times
• November 9 - Marie Dressler, Academy Award winning actress (d. 1934)
• December 31 - Henri Matisse, painter

Deaths

• March 8 - Hector Berlioz, French composer
• April 20 - Carl Loewe, composer

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