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( 1860s: )     1869
The Suez Canal opens, of immense importance to the British Empire
year 1869

Events

• February 20 – Ranavalona II, the Merina Queen of Madagascar, is baptized.
• February 25 – The Iron and Steel Institute is formed in London.
• March 4 – Ulysses S. Grant is sworn in, as the 18th President of the United States.
• March 18 (O. S. March 6) – Dmitri Mendeleev makes a formal presentation of his periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
• March 24 – Titokowaru's War ends with the surrender of the last Māori troops at large, in the South Taranaki District of New Zealand's North Island.
• May – In France, the opposition, consisting of republicans, monarchists and liberals, polls almost 45% of the vote in national elections.
• May 10 – The First Transcontinental Railroad in North America is completed at Promontory, Utah, by the driving of the "golden spike".
  

  May 10 – The First Transcontinental Railroad in North America is completed
• May 15 – Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
• August 9 – August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht found the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (SDAP).
• September 24 – Black Friday: The Fisk–Gould Scandal causes a financial panic in the United States.
• October 11 – The Red River Rebellion breaks out against British forces in Canada.
• November 4 – The first issue of the scientific journal Nature is published in London, edited by Norman Lockyer.
• November 17 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.
• November 19 – The Hudson's Bay Company surrenders its claim to Rupert's Land in Canada, under its letters patent, back to the British Crown.
• December 8 – The First Vatican Council opens in Rome.

Date unknown

• James Gordon Bennett, Jr. of the New York Herald asks Henry Morton Stanley to find Dr. David Livingstone.
• The Co-operative Central Board (later Co-operatives UK) is founded in Manchester, England.
• The Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts is founded in Great Britain.
• Campbell Soup Company has founded in New Jersey, United States.
• Heinz, as predecessor of Kraft Heinz, a food processing company worldwide, founded in Pennsylvania, United States.

 

Event

Event
Pax Brittanica

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Goldman Sachs		Public
St. Cloud State University		Public	Until 1957 St. Cloud State Teachers College
Potchefstroom University			The leadership of the university was part of the deep state Afrikaner Broederbond during the apartheid-era.
University of Nebraska–Lincoln

 

A Death

Title	Born	Died	Place of death
Edward Smith-Stanley	29 March 1799	23 October 1869	Knowsley Hall UK

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Neville Chamberlain	18 March 1869	Birmingham Warwickshire	9 November 1940	Politician
Arvid Gerhard Damm	27 May 1869		1927	Engineer Inventor
Emma Goldman	27 June 1869	Russian Empire Kovno	14 May 1940	Author Activist Orator
Mahatma Gandhi	2 October 1869	British Indian Empire Gujarat	30 January 1948	Author Activist Politician Lawyer	Indian non-violent revolutionary sage
Frederick Heinze	5 December 1869	New York Brooklyn	4 November 1914	Businessperson	A copper baron bankrupted by the money trust

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