1869 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1869?
- January 13, 1869 – National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.
- February 5, 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger”, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
- March 6, 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
- March 24, 1869 – The last of Titokowaru’s forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
- April 6, 1869 – Celluloid is patented.
- May 1, 1869 – The Folies Bergère opens in Paris.
- May 4, 1869 – The Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay is fought in Japan.
- May 10, 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.
- May 17, 1869 – Imperial Japanese forces defeat the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Battle of Hakodate to end the Boshin War.
- May 26, 1869 – Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- July 25, 1869 – The Japanese daimyō begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
- August 2, 1869 – Japan’s samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
- August 16, 1869 – Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.
- August 29, 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world’s first rack railway.
- September 22, 1869 – Richard Wagner’s opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
- October 5, 1869 – The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
- October 16, 1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is “discovered”.
- November 6, 1869 – In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
- November 17, 1869 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
- December 7, 1869 – American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
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