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 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 1, 1869 – The Folies Bergère opens in Paris.
- 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.
- 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.
- August 15, 1869 – The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.
- 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.
- 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 – Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England’s first residential college for women.
- 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.
- December 7, 1869 – American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
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