Notable Historical Events - 1869
1869 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 13 |
Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention meets in Wash DC |
Jan 18 |
Elegant California Theater opens in SF |
Jan 20 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before US Congress |
Feb 2 |
James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade |
Feb 3 |
Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet) |
Feb 6 |
Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers |
Feb 15 |
Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped |
Feb 19 |
US Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized |
Feb 20 |
Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis |
Feb 23 |
Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law |
Feb 26 |
15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states to ratify |
Feb 26 |
Franz Schubert's "4th Tragic," premieres |
Feb 27 |
John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress |
Mar 1 |
Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time |
Mar 3 |
University of South Carolina opens to all races |
Mar 4 |
Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th US President |
Mar 6 |
Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society. |
Mar 13 |
Arkansas legislature passes anti-Ku Klux Klan law |
Mar 14 |
Defeat of Maori leader Titokowaru in New Zealand. |
Mar 15 |
Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team |
Mar 15 |
Cincinnati Red Stockings beat Antioch 41-7 |
Mar 16 |
Hiram R. Revels makes 1st official speech by an African American in the Senate |
Apr 6 |
1st plastic, Celluloid, patented |
Apr 8 |
American Museum of Natural History opens (NYC) |
Apr 9 |
Hudson Bay Company cedes its territory to Canada |
Apr 10 |
Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9 |
Apr 10 |
José Martí founds the Cuban Revolutionary Party. |
Apr 12 |
North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law |
Apr 13 |
Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse) |
Apr 16 |
Ebenezer Bassett, 1st US Negro diplomat, begins service in Haiti |
Apr 17 |
1st pro baseball games-Cin Reds 24, Cin amateurs 15 |
Apr 18 |
1st international cricket match, held in SF, wins by Californian |
Apr 30 |
Hawaiian YMCA organized |
May 1 |
Folies Bergère opens in Paris |
May 4 |
The Naval Battle of Hakodate takes place in Japan. |
May 10 |
Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinental RR |
May 15 |
National Woman Suffrage Association forms in New York, founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
May 16 |
Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7 |
May 18 |
Surrender and dissolution of the Ezo Republic to Japan. |
May 26 |
Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. |
Jun 1 |
Voting machine patented (Thomas A Edison) |
Jun 2 |
Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st game (vs Cin Red Stockings) |
Jun 5 |
3rd Belmont: C Miller aboard Fenian wins in 3:04.25 |
Jun 8 |
Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner |
Jun 9 |
Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer (Phila) |
Jun 10 |
'Agnes'arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef |
Jun 15 |
Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY |
Jun 15 |
Mike McCoole (US) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout |
Jun 28 |
Amsterdam typographer strike |
Jul 1 |
Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed |
Jul 1 |
US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens |
Jul 6 |
Black candidate for lt governor of Va, Dr J H Harris, defeated |
Jul 9 |
Concord pipe, made from small corn kernels, invented |
Jul 15 |
Margarine is patented by Hippolye Méga-Mouriès for use by French Navy |
Jul 19 |
Louis Riel speaks at a meeting of Metis residents about rights, setting in motion the events now referred to as the Red River Rebellion |
Jul 30 |
The Charles, considered the world's first "oil tanker", departs from the United States headed for Europe with a bulk capacity of 7,000 barrels of oil |
Aug 1 |
1st voyage down Colorado River |
Aug 10 |
O B Brown patents moving picture projector |
Aug 15 |
The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto. |
Aug 16 |
Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguay battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance. |
Aug 17 |
1st international boat race (River Thames, Oxford beats Harvard) |
Aug 23 |
1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston |
Aug 24 |
Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron |
Sep 6 |
1st westbound train arrives in SF |
Sep 6 |
Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale, Pennsylvania |
Sep 10 |
Baptist minister supposedly invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan |
Sep 13 |
Jay Gould & James Fisk attempt to control US gold market |
Sep 22 |
Richard Wagner's opera "Rhine Gold" premieres in Munich |
Sep 24 |
Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold |
Oct 1 |
1st postcards are issued (Vienna, Austria) |
Oct 5 |
A strong hurricane devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer. |
Oct 6 |
John Brahms' "Liebeslieder Walzer" premieres |
Oct 16 |
Hotel in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor plumbing |
Oct 18 |
Henrik Ibsen's "De Unges Forbund," premieres in Christiania (Oslo) |
Oct 21 |
1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore |
Oct 26 |
1st American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, NY) |
Nov 1 |
Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra |
Nov 3 |
Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms |
Nov 6 |
1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4) |
Nov 15 |
Free postal delivery formally inaugurated |
Nov 16 |
Hamiora Pere is hanged at the Terrace Gaol, Wellington and is the only New Zealander to have been executed after being convicted of treason |
Nov 17 |
Englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race (13K Paris-Rouen) |
Nov 17 |
Suez Canal (Egypt) opens, links Mediterranean & Red seas |
Nov 23 |
In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched - one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day. |
Nov 24 |
American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland) |
Dec 8 |
20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome |
Dec 8 |
Timothy Eaton founds T. Eaton Co. Limited in Toronto, Canada. |
Dec 9 |
Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia |
Dec 10 |
Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st) |
Dec 10 |
The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia. |
Dec 18 |
Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club plays its 1st game |
Dec 28 |
William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum |
Dec 30 |
Philadelphia Knights of Labor forms |
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