1869
1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
March 1 - North German Confederation issues 10gr and 30gr value stamps, printed on goldbeater's skin
May 4 - Naval Battle of Hakodate in Japan.
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 - Last public hanging in Britain - Fenian bomber Michael Barrett
May 29 - British parliament passes the Capital Punishment within Prisons Bill ending public hanging
August 4 / 12 - Emperor Norton I of the United States abolished both the Democratic and Republican parties.
August 9 - Ferdinand Lassalle founds the SAP , the first socialist workers party in Germany.
August 20 - Abergele Train Disaster - Irish Mail passenger train collides with cargo trucks loaded with paraffin - 33 dead; First major train disaster in Britain
October 16 - England's first residential college for women, Girton College , is founded.
November 4 - The first issue of scientific journal Nature 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 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 Asuncion
Births
January 10 - Grigori Rasputin , Russian mystic (d. 1916 )
January 15 - Stanisław Wyspiański , Polish dramatist, poet, painter, architect (d. 1907 )
February 11 - Helene Kroller-Muller Dutch museum founder and patron of the arts (d. 1939 )
February 14 - Charles Wilson , Scottish physicist (d. 1959 )
March 5 - Michael von Faulhaber , cardinal and archbishop (d. 1952 )
March 14 - Algernon Blackwood , English writer (d. 1951 )
March 18 - Neville Chamberlain , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940 )
March 21 - Florenz Ziegfeld , theatrical producer (d. 1932 )
April 2 - Hughie Jennings , Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1928 )
April 8 - Harvey Cushing , American neurosurgeon (d. 1939 )
April 11 - Gustav Vigeland , Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943 )
May 14 - Friedrich Karl Kleine , physician (d. 1951 )
August 10 - Lawrence Binyon , English poet and scholar (d. 1943 )
September 2 - Fritz Pregl , Slovenian chemist (Nobel prize 1923 ) (d. 1930 )
September 23 - Mary Mallon , "Typhoid Mary" Irish domestic servant and cook famous as a carrier of typhoid fever (d. 1938 )
October 2 - Mohandas Gandhi , founder of the modern Indian state, proponent of nonviolence (d. 1948 )
October 25 - John Heisman , American football coach (d. 1936 )
November 25 - Herbert Greenfield , Premier of Alberta (d. 1949 )
December 30 - Stephen Leacock 1944 )
December 31 - Henri Matisse , French painter (d. 1954 )
Deaths
