1869

Year 1869 () is a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 12-day slower ).

January - March

 * -, First Anti-Hazing Honor/Social Fraternity, is founded.
 * - is the first woman to testify before the.
 * -, Queen of  is baptized.
 * - issues 10 and 30gr value stamps, printed on
 * - succeeds  as.
 * - makes a formal presentation to the n.

April - June

 * - is founded in New York.
 * May - in Japan.
 * - founded in.
 * - completed at Promontory, Utah.
 * - : In, and  form the.
 * - is chartered by the.
 * - British parliament passes the Capital Punishment within Prisons Bill, thus ending public hanging.
 * - The open the baseball season as the first all professional  (paid, no amateurs) team.
 * - founded in.
 * - John Wesley Hyatt patents the first plastic,, in Albany, New York.
 * - First n takes place in.

July - September

 * - is founded.
 * - -  abolished both the  and  parties.
 * - and  founded the  (SDAP).
 * - is killed in a, possibly the first person ever to suffer this fate.
 * - The foundation stone is laid for in  (southern ).
 * - Work completed on the.
 * - The Fisk-Gould Scandal also known as erupted and a financial panic in the United States caused by two speculators' efforts to corner the gold market.

October - December

 * - England's first residential college for women,, is founded.
 * - The first issue of scientific journal  is published.
 * - The first game of soccer between two American colleges is played .   defeats, 6 to 4 in a forerunner to  and.
 * - In, the , linking the with the , is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.
 * - In, the clipper ship   is launched (it was one of the last  ships to be built, and the only one surviving to the present day).
 * - First American chapter of founded at the.
 * - forces take

Undated

 * becomes British
 * British parliament ends to  as punishment
 * begins a 42 year reign as
 * of the, asks to go and find , despite him not being lost or in difficulty.
 * The of Japan accepts the surrender of the four most powerful clans (,,  and ) and reappoints the clan chiefs as Provincial Governors, on reduced revenues.
 * is exiled from.
 * founded.
 * The Co-operative Central Board (later ) founded in.

January - June

 * -, baseball player (d. )
 * -, Russian mystic (d. )
 * -, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (d. )
 * -, Dutch museum founder and patron of the arts (d. )
 * -, Scottish physicist, laureate (d. )
 * -, a revolutionary, 's wife. (d.)
 * , German cardinal and archbishop (d. )
 * , British conductor (d. )
 * -, New Zealand Prime Minister and first leader of the (d. )
 * -, English writer (d. )
 * -, (d. )
 * -, theatrical producer (d. )
 * -, baseball player (d. )
 * -, American architect (d. )
 * -, American neurosurgeon (d. )
 * -, Norwegian sculptor (d. )
 * -, Activist (d. , )
 * -, German composer (d. )
 * -, American physicist and inventor (d. )
 * -, English-born comedienne (d. )
 * -, German embryologist, recipient of the (d. )
 * -, English poet and scholar (d. )
 * -, Austrian chemist, laureate (d. )
 * -, Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the (d. )
 * -, "Typhoid Mary" (d. )
 * -, Indian political leader, (d. )
 * -, American football coach (d. )
 * -, American leader (d. )
 * -, King (d. )
 * -, seminal British  architect (d.)
 * -, French writer, laureate (d. )
 * -, , (d. )
 * -, Swedish physicist, laureate (d. )
 * -, n revolutionary, leader of the revolutionary movement in and
 * -, American poet (d. )
 * -, British-Canadian author and economist (d. )
 * -, French painter (d. )
 * -, British-Canadian author and economist (d. )
 * -, French painter (d. )


 * See also .

January - June

 * , U.S. Senator from Delaware (b. )
 * , fourth Chief Engraver of the (b. )
 * -, Irish novelist (b. )
 * -, Indian poet (b. ).
 * -, French composer (b. )
 * -, British admiral of the Brazilian Navy (b. )
 * -, French general (b. )
 * -, German composer (b. )
 * -, Australian explorer (b. )
 * -, Japanese military commander (b. )
 * -, first car accident victim
 * -, British lexicographer (b. )
 * -, French literary critic (b. )
 * -, (b. )
 * -, American composer and pianist (b. )
 * -, American composer and pianist (b. )