Historical Events In 1869

Nov 03   Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms in the year 1869.  

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

Nov 06   In the year 1869 diamonds discovered at Kimberley, South Africa  

Nov 09   Marie Dressler, [Leila M Koerber], Ontario, actress (Caught Short) on this day in history.  

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

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

Nov 15   In the year 1869 free postal delivery formally inaugurated  

Nov 17   On this day in history 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   Andre Gide, France, novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947) on this day in history.  

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

Nov 24   On this day in history american Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland)  

Dec 02   On this day in history 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   On this day in history 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome  

Dec 09   Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia in the year 1869.  

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

Dec 16   On this day in history 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   Eduard Hermann, Coburg Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, German linguist (Homer) in the year 1869.  

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   Newfoundlanders vote against joining Confederation. (later they see the error of their ways and join up) in the year 1869.  

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

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

Dec 26   Harry Redman, composer in the year 1869.  

Dec 27   First issue of the Ottawa Free Press newspaper published in the year 1869.  

Dec 27   In the year 1869 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   On this day in history 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   Percy Pitt, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 04   Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (d. 1960) was born on this day in history.  

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

Jan 15   On this day in history birth of stanisÅ‚aw WyspiaÅ„ski, Polish dramatist (d. 1907)  

Jan 18   In the year 1869 birth of willem De Vreese, Flemish linguist/biblographer  

Jan 19   In the year 1869 birth of alfred R Zimmerman, mayor (Rotterdam 1906-22)/Dir (League of Nations)  

Jan 22   Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916) was born on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history death of duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846)  

Jan 28   In the year 1869 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   Frederik W Conrad, hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer, dies at 68 on this day in history.  

Feb 04   Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author/novelist (Future), dies at 60 on this day in history.  

Feb 15   Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796) died on this day in history.