1869 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1869?
- January 13, 1869 – National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.
- 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.
- April 28, 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
- 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 15, 1869 – Woman’s suffrage: in New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
- 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 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 11, 1869 – The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people’s wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
- November 17, 1869 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
- November 22, 1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched – one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today.
- December 7, 1869 – American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
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