Page 7: Historical Events In 1869
Sunday, 16 February 2025
Nov 03 On this day in history canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms
Nov 06 In the year 1869 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)
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 In the year 1869 victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia
Nov 12 In the year 1869 gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies
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 on this day in history.
Nov 17 Englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race (13K Paris-Rouen) in the year 1869.
Nov 17 In the year 1869 suez Canal opens (Egypt)
Nov 18 James E Sullivan, founder (Amateur Athletic Union) on this day in history.
Nov 20 In the year 1869 clark Griffith, Mo, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees)
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 in the year 1869.
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 in the year 1869.
Dec 08 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome in the year 1869.
Dec 09 In the year 1869 noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia
Dec 10 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st) on this day in history.
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 Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club plays its 1st game on this day in history.
Dec 18 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer, dies at 40 on this day in history.
Dec 19 In the year 1869 eduard Hermann, Coburg Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, German linguist (Homer)
Dec 20 Charley Grapewin, Xenia OH, actor (Wizard of Oz, Libeled Lady) in the year 1869.
Dec 22 Andre[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide, Paris France, writer (Nobel 1947) on this day in history.
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 in the year 1869.
Dec 24 In the year 1869 henriette GA Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Dutch poet (Women in Forest)
Dec 26 In the year 1869 harry Redman, composer
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.