In history, year 1869 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1869.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 05 february | Prospectors in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia, discovered the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found, known as the 'Welcome Stranger'. |
| 06 march | Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table of elements to the Russian Chemical Society. |
| 24 march | The last of Maori leader Titokowaru's forces surrendered tothe New Zealand government, ending his uprising. |
| 10 may | The Golden Spike Ceremony was held at Promontory Summit, Utah, celebrating the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States between the Missouri and Sacramento Rivers. |
| 15 may | Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, breaking away from the American Equal Rights Association which they had also previously founded. |
| 18 may | One day after surrendering at the Battle of Hakodate, EnomotoTakeaki turned over Goryokaku to Japanese forces, signaling thecollapse of the Republic of Ezo. |
| 20 june | Laxmanrao Kirloskar, great industrialist, social reformer, patriot and founder of Kirloskar Industry, was born at Belgaum. The Kirloskar Group is an Indian conglomerate. The company exports to over 70 countries over most of Africa, Southeast Asia and Europe. The flagship & holding company, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd, is India's largest maker of pumps and valves. And also undertakes construction projects through its subsidiary Kirloskar Construction And Engineers Ltd. |
| 24 june | Hari Chapekar was born. He was eldest among the revolutionary Chapekar brothers who assassinated the British Commissioner WC Rand. The name of their grandfather was Vinayak and their mother and father were, respectively, Dwarka and Hari. |
| 16 october | Girton College, one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge and England's first residential college forwomen, was founded. |
| 06 november | In the first official American football game, Rutgers Collegedefeated the College of New Jersey, 6–4, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. |
| 17 november | The Suez Canal opened, allowing shipping to travel betweenEurope and Asia via the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. |
| 07 december | American outlaw Jesse James committed his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri. |
| 02 October | Mahatma Gandhi, father of the nation of India, was born in Porbandar. Today is celebrated as Non-Violence Day all over the world including India. |
| 11 October | American explorer Thomas Edison applied for a patent on his first invention. This electric machine was used to count votes. |
| 17 November | James Moorey of England won the first cycle race. |
| 01 August | Harcourt Butler, an Indian Civil Service officer, was the first Governor of Uttar Pradesh. |
| 17 August | The first international ferry race took place at the River Thames in London, in which Oxford defeated Harvard. |
| 15 February | The famous Urdu poet and writer Mirza Ghalib Asad Ullah Beg Khan, born in Agra, passed away. |
| 11 April | Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mahatma Gandhi, was born. |
| 20 January | Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first woman to testify from the United States Congress. |
| 20 February | Tennessee Governor W. C. Brownlow declared martial law in the Ku Klux Klan crisis. |
| 15 March | The Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first pro baseball team. |
| 10 April | Congress outnumbered Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9. |
| 16 May | The Cincinnati Reds won their first baseball game 41-7. |
| 02 June | Sherwood College was established in Nainital India. |
| 27 August | The University of Oxford organized the first international boat race on the River Thames against Howard University. |
| 24 September | Black Friday: The Fisk-Gold Scandal Caused a Financial Crisis in the United States. |
| 11 October | Red River Rebellion was launched against the British Army in Canada. |
| 17 November | In Egypt, the Suez Canal, connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, was inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony. |
| 07 December | American bandit Jesse James confirms his first bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 03 July | Svend Kornbeck / Actor / Denmark |
| 05 April | Sergey Chaplygin / Mathematician / Russia |
| 05 May | Fabián de la Rosa / Educator / Philippines |
| 05 May | Hans Pfitzner / Composer / Germany |
| 10 February | Royal Cortissoz / Critic / United States of America |
| 10 August | Laurence Binyon / Poet / United Kingdom |
| 11 April | Gustav Vigeland / Sculptor / Norway |
| 11 May | Archibald Warden / Tennis Player / United Kingdom |
| 13 November | Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams / Journalist / United States of America |
| 18 August | Carl Rungius / Painter / United States of America |
| 18 March | Neville Chamberlain / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 22 November | André Gide / Novelist / France |
| 23 March | Emilio Aguinaldo / Politician / Philippines |
| 24 December | Henriette Roland Holst / Poet / Netherlands |
| 25 December | Charles Finger / Author / United Kingdom |
| 26 December | Mathieu Cordang / Cyclist / Netherlands |
| 27 June | Kate Carew / Journalist / United States of America |
| 27 March | J. R. Clynes / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 27 February | Alice Hamilton / Physician / United States of America |
| 30 November | James Hamilton / Politician / United Kingdom |