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) on this day in history.  

Nov 06   In the year 1869 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   Free postal delivery formally inaugurated on this day in history.  

Nov 17   After work lasting ten years, the 100 mile long Suez Canal opens in the year 1869.  

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

Nov 17   On this day in history suez Canal opens (Egypt)  

Nov 18   James E Sullivan, founder (Amateur Athletic Union) in the year 1869.  

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

Nov 22   Andre Gide, France, novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947) in the year 1869.  

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) on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1869.  

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

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

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

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 on this day in history.  

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

Dec 20   In the year 1869 charley Grapewin, Xenia OH, actor (Wizard of Oz, Libeled Lady)  

Dec 22   Andre[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide, Paris France, writer (Nobel 1947) in the year 1869.  

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   In the year 1869 edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, US Secretary of War (1861-65), dies at 55  

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

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

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   The Knights of Labor, a union of Philadelphia, PA tailors, hold the first Labor Day ceremonies in the US on this day in history.  

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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   Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (d. 1960) was born in the year 1869.  

Jan 13   Emanuele F, duke of Aosta, Italian general (WW I)/fascist was born on this day in history.  

Jan 15   On this day in history 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   On this day in history 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   On this day in history death of martin W. Bates, American politician (b. 1786)  

Jan 17   Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer, dies at 55 on this day in history.  

Jan 26   In the year 1869 death of duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846)  

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   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.