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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Year 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1869

April 8 - The American Museum of Natural History opens in New York.
May - Naval Battle of Hakodate in Japan.
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 ending public hanging
June 1 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings open the baseball season as the first all professional (paid, no amateurs) team.
June 15 - John Wesley Hyatt patents the first plastic, Celluloid, in Albany, New York.
June 18 - First Estonian song festival takes place in Tartu

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 intercollegiate American football game is played. Rutgers defeats Princeton, 6 to 4.
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 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
Venancio Flores murdered in Montevideo
Fire burns down about 75% of Hancock, Michigan
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.
Invention of barbed wire, see ranching.
Abdur Rahman Khan is exiled from Afghanistan.
"Michigan relics" appear
Goldman Sachs and Co. was founded
Glasgow University Rugby Football Club (GURFC) founded.
Thomas Bramwell Welch invents a way to pasteurize grape juice to halt the fermentation, eventually leading to the founding of Welch's Grape Juice Company.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale founded.