Historical Events In 1869

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

Nov 06   1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4) on this day in history.  

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

Nov 09   Marie Dressler, [Leila M Koerber], Ontario, actress (Caught Short) in the year 1869.  

Nov 11   On this day in history victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia  

Nov 12   On this day in history gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies  

Nov 15   On this day in history free postal delivery formally inaugurated  

Nov 17   After work lasting ten years, the 100 mile long Suez Canal opens on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1869 james E Sullivan, founder (Amateur Athletic Union)  

Nov 20   Clark Griffith, Mo, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees) in the year 1869.  

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 on this day in history.  

Nov 24   American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland) in the year 1869.  

Dec 02   In the year 1869 jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Theory of the Dialects)  

Dec 06   Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at 54 on this day in history.  

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

Dec 09   On this day in history noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia  

Dec 10   Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st) in the year 1869.  

Dec 16   Albert F Pollard, British historian (Dict of natural biography) on this day in history.  

Dec 17   Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer in the year 1869.  

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

Dec 18   In the year 1869 louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer, dies at 40  

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

Dec 20   Charley Grapewin, Xenia OH, actor (Wizard of Oz, Libeled Lady) on this day in history.  

Dec 22   On this day in history andre[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide, Paris France, writer (Nobel 1947)  

Dec 22   In the year 1869 newfoundlanders vote against joining Confederation. (later they see the error of their ways and join up)  

Dec 24   Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, US Secretary of War (1861-65), dies at 55 in the year 1869.  

Dec 24   In the year 1869 henriette GA Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Dutch poet (Women in Forest)  

Dec 26   Harry Redman, composer in the year 1869.  

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

Dec 27   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 in the year 1869.  

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

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Jan 03   On this day in history birth of paul Charles Rene Landormy, composer  

Jan 04   In the year 1869 birth of percy Pitt, composer  

Jan 04   In the year 1869 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   In the year 1869 birth of willem De Vreese, Flemish linguist/biblographer  

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   Martin W. Bates, American politician (b. 1786) died on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

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

Jan 30   In the year 1869 death of william Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)  

Feb 01   On this day in history 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   Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796) died in the year 1869.