1869 Calendar
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1869 Historical Event(s)
January 13, 1869
– National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.
February 5, 1869
– The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger”, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
March 24, 1869
– The last of Titokowaru’s forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
May 4, 1869
– The Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay is fought in Japan.
May 10, 1869
– The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.
May 26, 1869
– Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
September 24, 1869
– “Black Friday”: Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
October 16, 1869
– The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is “discovered”.
December 10, 1869
– Kappa Sigma Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.
Who Were Born On 1869?
January 4, 1869
– Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (d. 1960)
February 19, 1869
– Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian poet and writer (d. 1923)
March 18, 1869
– Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940)
March 22, 1869
– Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino statesman (d. 1964)
April 8, 1869
– Harvey Cushing, American neurosurgeon (d. 1939)
July 29, 1869
– Booth Tarkington, American novelist and dramatist (d. 1946)
August 10, 1869
– Laurence Binyon, British poet (d. 1943)
September 3, 1869
– Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1930)
September 26, 1869
– Komitas, Armenian composer (d. 1935)
November 13, 1869
– Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian feminist (d. 1962)