1869 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1869?
- March 6, 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
- 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.
- 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.
- September 24, 1869 – “Black Friday”: Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
- October 16, 1869 – Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England’s first residential college for women.
- 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.
- December 10, 1869 – Kappa Sigma Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.
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