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 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.
- August 15, 1869 – The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.
- 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 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 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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