1869

Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s - 1860s - 1870s 1880s 1890s
Years:	1866 1867 1868 - 1869 - 1870 1871 1872

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Events of 1869

January 1 - Sigma Nu, First Anti-Hazing Honor/Social Fraternity, is found.
January 20 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton is the first woman to testify before the United States Congress.
January 21 - [[1]] - A philanthropic educational organization), one of the pioneer societies for women, was founded at Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
February 20 - Ranavalona II, Merina Queen of Madagascar is baptized.
March 1 - North German Confederation issues 10gr and 30gr value stamps, printed on goldbeater's skin
March 4 - Ulysses S. Grant succeeds Andrew Johnson as President of the United States of America.
March 6 - Mendeleev makes a formal presentation to the Russian Chemical Society.

April 6 - The American Museum of Natural History is founded in New York.
May - Naval Battle of Hakodate in Korea.
May 6 - Purdue University founded in West Lafayette, Indiana.
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 - Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
May 29 - British parliament passes the Capital Punishment within Prisons Bill, thus ending public hanging.
June 1 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings open the baseball season as the first all professional (paid, no amateurs) team.
June 2 - Sherwood College founded in Nainital.
June 15 - John Wesley Hyatt patents the first plastic, Celluloid, in Albany, New York.
June 18 - First Estonian song festival takes place in Tartu.

July 4 - University of Bucharest is founded.
July 18 - Laurent Clerc dies in Hartford, Connecticut.
August 4-August 12 - Joshua A. Norton abolished both the Democratic and Republican parties.
August 9 - August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht founded the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (SDAP).
August 31 - Mary Ward is killed in a car accident, possibly the first person ever to suffer this fate.
September 5 - The foundation stone is laid for Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria (southern Germany).
September 11 - Work completed on the Wallace Monument.
September 24- The Fisk-Gould Scandal also known as Black Friday (1869) erupted and a financial panic in the United States caused by two speculators' efforts to corner the gold market.

October 2 - Mahatma Gandhi's birthday
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 game of soccer between two American colleges is played . Rutgers University defeats Princeton University, 6 to 4 in a forerunner to American Football and College Football.
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 1 - The official transfer of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company to the Dominion of Canada.
December 10 - First American chapter of Kappa Sigma founded at the University of Virginia.
December 31 - Triple Alliance forces take Asunción

Basutoland becomes British protectorate
British parliament ends transportation to Australia as punishment
Mahbub Ali Pasha begins a 42 year reign as Nizam of Hyderabad
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. 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 (Chōshū, Tosa, Hizen and Satsuma) and reappoints the clan chiefs as Provincial Governors, on reduced revenues.
Abdur Rahman Khan is exiled from Afghanistan.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale founded.
The Co-operative Central Board (later Co-operatives UK) founded in Manchester.
Glasgow University Rugby Football Club (GURFC) founded.