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

List of state leaders in 1869
List of religious leaders in 1869

Events

March 1 - North German Confederation issues 10gr and 30gr value stamps, printed on goldbeater's skin
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.


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