1869

1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1866 1867 1868 - 1869 - 1870 1871 1872 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1830s 1840s 1850s - 1860s - 1870s 1880s 1890s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

May 10 - Transcontinental Railroad completed at Promontory, Utah. \n* May 15 - Woman's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman's Suffrage Association.\n* May 26 - Last public hanging in Britain � Fenian bomber Michael Barrett\n* May 29 - British parliament passes the Capital Punishment within Prisons Bill ending public hanging\n*August 4/12 - Emperor Norton I of the United States abolished both the Democratic and Republican parties.\n* August 20 - Abergele Train Disaster - Irish Mail passenger train collides with cargo trucks loaded with paraffin - 33 dead; First major train disaster in Britain\n* October 16 - England's first residential college for women, Girton College, is founded.\n* November 4 - The first issue of scientific journal Nature is published.\n* November 6 - The first intercollegiate American football game is played. Rutgers defeats Princeton, 6 to 4.\n* November 17 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony. \n* 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).\n* December 31 - Triple Alliance forces take Asuncion

\n* Basutoland becomes British protectorate\n* British parliament ends transportation to Australia as punishment\n* Venancio Flores murdered in Montevideo\n*Ulysses S. Grant succeeds Andrew Johnson as President of the United States of America.\n*Fire burns down about 75% of Hancock, Michigan\n*Mahbub Ali Pasha begins a 42 year reign as Nizam of Hyderabad\n* 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.\n* 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.\n*Invention of barbed wire, see ranching.

\n*January 10 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic\n*February 11 - Helene Kroller-Muller Dutch museum founder and patron of the arts\n* February 14 - Charles Wilson, physicist\n* March 5 - Michael von Faulhaber, cardinal and archbishop (d. 1952)\n* March 14 - Algernon Blackwood, writer (d. 1951)\n* March 18 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940)\n* March 21 - Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer (d. 1932)\n* April 2 - Hughie Jennings, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1928)\n* April 8 - Harvey Cushing, American neurosurgeon (d. 1939) \n* April 11 - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor\n* May 14 - Friedrich Karl Kleine, physician (d. 1951)\n* August 10 - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar\n* September 2 - Fritz Pregl, chemist (Nobel prize 1923)\n*September 23 - Mary Mallon, Irish domestic servant and cook, later famous carrier of Typhoid fever\n* October 2 - Mohandas Gandhi, Founder of the modern Indian state, the original proponent of nonviolence in modern times\n*November 25 - Herbert Greenfield, Premier of Alberta\n*December 30 - Stephen Leacock, British-Canadian author and economist\n* December 31 - Henri Matisse, painter

\n*March 8 - Hector Berlioz, French composer\n*March 24 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, General (b. 1779)\n*April 20 - Carl Loewe, composer\n*December 18 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk American composer, pianist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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