* 1869 – Celluloid is patented.

* 1869 – Levon Shant, Armenian playwright, novelist and poet ( d. 1951 )

* 1869 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer ( d. 1922 )

* 1869 – Hans Poelzig, German architect, painter, and set designer ( d. 1936 )

* 1812 – Bertalan Szemere, Hungarian politician ( d. 1869 )

* 1803 – Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer ( d. 1869 )

* 1869 – Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system ( Shinōkōshō ) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.

* 1949 – Ignotus, Hungarian editor and writer ( b. 1869 )

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

* Haliotis brazieri Angas, 1869 – Brazier ’ s abalone – synonym: Haliotis melculus, the honey abalone

** Haliotis brazieri f. hargravesi ( Cox, 1869 ) – synonym: Haliotis ethologus, the Mimic abalone, Haliotis hargravesi, the Hargraves ’ s abalone

* 1869 – The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.

* 1869 – William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish-Australian poet ( d. 1963 )

* 1869 – Tom Kiely, Irish decathlete ( d. 1951 )

Andrew Johnson ( December 29, 1808 July 31, 1875 ) was the 17th President of the United States ( 1865 – 1869 ).

* Gordon-Reed, Annette Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865 – 1869, ISBN 0-8050-6948-8.

Unionism and Reconstruction in Tennessee, 1860 – 1869 ( 1934 ) online edition

* Newspaper clippings, 1865 – 1869

* 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.

* 1869 – Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager ( d. 1928 )

* 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.

* 1812 – Agoston Haraszthy Hungarian-American traveler, writer, and winemaker, founded Buena Vista Winery ( d. 1869 )

* 1794 – James Barton Longacre, American engraver ( d. 1869 )

* 1869 – The Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay is fought in Japan.

* 1869 – Imperial Japanese forces defeat the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Battle of Hakodate to end the Boshin War.

The defeat of the Sioux at the Battle of Summit Springs in 1869 largely eliminated this threat, and several parties were organized to explore the agricultural possibilities of the area.

Following the Battle of Washita River in November 1868, Custer was alleged ( by Captain Frederick Benteen, chief of scouts Ben Clark, and Cheyenne oral tradition ) to have unofficially " married " Mo-nah-se-tah, daughter of the Cheyenne chief Little Rock in the winter or early spring of 1868 – 1869.

The village of Gridley was founded in 1869 and named after General Asahel Gridley ( or Ashael Gridley ), a noted early Republican, land investor, political backer and client of Abraham Lincoln, and a descendant of a Colonel Gridley who served at the Battle of Lexington.

By 1845 the town had been laid out, and in 1869 the name Alamo replaced Cageville as a memorial to Davy Crockett and those who died at Battle of the Alamo.

As the conflict spread to northern Japan, Tōgō participated as a third-class officer aboard the Kasuga in the last battles against the remnants of the Bakufu forces, the Naval Battle of Miyako and the Naval Battle of Hakodate ( 1869 ).

Painting of Pheidippides as he gave word of the Greek victory over Persia at the Battle of Marathon to the people of Athens. Luc-Olivier Merson, 1869

He later joined Satsuma's Eighth Rifle Troop ; in the Boshin War that ended the Tokugawa shogunate, fighting at the Battle of Toba-Fushimi and other locations ; he was also aboard one of the ships that pursued Enomoto Takeaki and the remnants of the Tokugawa fleet to Hokkaidō in 1869.

Government forces defeated the secessionists in the Battle of Hakodate in 1869 and the city and fort were surrendered to emperor.

* Big Sur: A Battle for the Wilderness 1869 – 1981, John Woolfenden, The Boxwood Press ( 1981 ), 143 pages, ISBN 0-910286-87-6

Other paintings in this group include Unia Lubelska ( Union of Lublin ) ( 1869 ), Stefan Batory pod Pskowem ( Stefan Batory at the siege of Pskov ) ( 1872 ), Kopernik ( Nicolaus Copernicus ), Dzwon Zygmunta ( Sigismund's Bell ) ( 1874 ), Hołd Pruski ( Prussian Tribute ) ( 1882 ), Sobieski pod Wiedniem ( Jan III Sobieski at the Battle of Vienna ) ( 1883 ), Wernyhora, Kościuszko pod Racławicami ( Tadeusz Kościuszko at the battle of Racławice ) ( 1888 ), Dzieje Cywilizacji w Polsce ( History of civilization in Poland ) ( 1889 ) and Konstytucja 3 Maja ( Constitution of the 3 May ) ( 1891 ).

After raiding sites in Kansas, they were attacked by a force composed of Pawnee Scouts led by Major Frank North, and United States cavalry, who killed nearly all the band, including Tall Bull, in the Battle of Summit Springs in June 1869.

After the outbreak of the Boshin War ( 1868 – 1869 ), Saitō took part in Shinsengumi's fight during the Battle of Toba-Fushimi and the Battle of Kōshū-Katsunuma, before withdrawing with the Shinsengumi's survivors to the Aizu domain.

* Black Sun: The Battle of Summit Springs, 1869 ( 1991 )

Webley 1868 RIC No. 1 Revolver cal 450 CFThere is a well-known story that a pair of Webley RIC Model revolvers were presented to Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer by Lord Berkeley in 1869, and it is believed that General Custer was using them at the time of his death in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Battle Creek, Mich: E. G. Rust, 1869. p. 41-42

At the same time he painted a number of remarkable pictures: The Attack in the Streets of Magenta by Zouaves and the Light Horse ( 1864 ), A Zouave Sentinel ( 1865 ), The Battle of San Lorenzo ( 1867 ), and Dismounted Cavalry crossing the Tchernaia ( 1869 ).

The Battle of Acosta Ñu | Battle of Campo Grande during the Paraguayan War, August 16, 1869.

* Naval Battle of Miyako, March 1869.

* Naval Battle of Hakodate, May 1869 ( Imperial Navy victory over the remnants of the Shogun's Navy of the Republic of Ezo.