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1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar).
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 - Ferdinand Lassalle founds the SAP, the first socialist workers party in Germany.
August 20 - Abergele Train Disaster - Irish Mail passenger train collides with cargo trucks loaded with paraffin - 33 dead; First major train disaster in Britain
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 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 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.
Invention of barbed wire, see ranching.
Heinz Established
Abdur Rahman Khan is exiled from Afghanistan.
The Roman Catholic Church prohibits abortion under any circumstance.
Births
January 10 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic
January 15 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, architect (d. 1907)
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 (d. 1932)
April 2 - Hughie Jennings, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1928)
April 8 - Harvey Cushing, American neurosurgeon (d. 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 nonviolence in modern times
November 25 - Herbert Greenfield, Premier of Alberta
December 30 - Stephen Leacock, British-Canadian author and economist
December 31 - Henri Matisse, painter
Deaths
March 8 - Hector Berlioz, French composer
March 24 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, General (b. 1779)
April 20 - Carl Loewe, composer
May 11 - Hijikata Toshizou, 2nd commander of the Shinsengumi
December 18 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk American composer, pianist
Category:1869
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