Historical Events In 1869

Nov 03   Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms on this day in history.  

Nov 06   In the year 1869 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)  

Nov 06   On this day in history diamonds discovered at Kimberley, South Africa  

Nov 09   In the year 1869 marie Dressler, [Leila M Koerber], Ontario, actress (Caught Short)  

Nov 11   Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia in the year 1869.  

Nov 12   Gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies in the year 1869.  

Nov 15   In the year 1869 free postal delivery formally inaugurated  

Nov 17   In the year 1869 after work lasting ten years, the 100 mile long Suez Canal opens  

Nov 17   In the year 1869 englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race (13K Paris-Rouen)  

Nov 17   Suez Canal opens (Egypt) in the year 1869.  

Nov 18   James E Sullivan, founder (Amateur Athletic Union) on this day in history.  

Nov 20   Clark Griffith, Mo, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees) on this day in history.  

Nov 22   In the year 1869 andre Gide, France, novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947)  

Nov 23   In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched in the year 1869.  

Nov 24   American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland) on this day in history.  

Dec 02   Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Theory of the Dialects) on this day in history.  

Dec 06   Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at 54 in the year 1869.  

Dec 08   20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome in the year 1869.  

Dec 09   Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia on this day in history.  

Dec 10   Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st) on this day in history.  

Dec 16   In the year 1869 albert F Pollard, British historian (Dict of natural biography)  

Dec 17   On this day in history nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer  

Dec 18   On this day in history canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club plays its 1st game  

Dec 18   Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer, dies at 40 in the year 1869.  

Dec 19   On this day in history eduard Hermann, Coburg Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, German linguist (Homer)  

Dec 20   On this day in history charley Grapewin, Xenia OH, actor (Wizard of Oz, Libeled Lady)  

Dec 22   In the year 1869 andre[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide, Paris France, writer (Nobel 1947)  

Dec 22   On this day in history newfoundlanders vote against joining Confederation. (later they see the error of their ways and join up)  

Dec 24   On this day in history edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, US Secretary of War (1861-65), dies at 55  

Dec 24   On this day in history henriette GA Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Dutch poet (Women in Forest)  

Dec 26   Harry Redman, composer on this day in history.  

Dec 27   First issue of the Ottawa Free Press newspaper published on this day in history.  

Dec 27   On this day in history louis Riel 1844-1885 elected President of the Provisional Government of Rupert's Land and the North West; with powers to negotiate with Canadian Commissioner Donald A. Smith  

Dec 28   In the year 1869 the Knights of Labor, a union of Philadelphia, PA tailors, hold the first Labor Day ceremonies in the US.  

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Jan 03   Paul Charles Rene Landormy, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of percy Pitt, composer  

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (d. 1960)  

Jan 13   In the year 1869 birth of emanuele F, duke of Aosta, Italian general (WW I)/fascist  

Jan 15   In the year 1869 birth of stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist (d. 1907)  

Jan 18   Willem De Vreese, Flemish linguist/biblographer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 19   Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor (Rotterdam 1906-22)/Dir (League of Nations) was born in the year 1869.  

Jan 22   Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916) was born in the year 1869.  

Jan 01   In the year 1869 death of martin W. Bates, American politician (b. 1786)  

Jan 17   In the year 1869 alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer, dies at 55  

Jan 26   Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846) died in the year 1869.  

Jan 28   On this day in history prudent-Louis Aubery du Boulley, composer, dies at 72  

Jan 30   William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794) died on this day in history.  

Feb 01   In the year 1869 frederik W Conrad, hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer, dies at 68  

Feb 04   Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author/novelist (Future), dies at 60 in the year 1869.  

Feb 15   In the year 1869 death of mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796)