* 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 – Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.

* 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 – 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 )

* Chinese telegraph code ( Hans Schjellerup, 1869, modified 1872 and following )

The Chinese laborers worked out well and thousands more were recruited until the railroad's completion in 1869.

The middle and lower parts of the Bukhtarma valley have been colonized since the 18th century by runaway Russian peasants, serfs and religious schismatics ( Raskolniks ), who created a free republic there on Chinese territory ; and after this part of the valley was annexed to Russia in 1869, it was rapidly colonized.

There were four thousand Chinese living in the Idaho Territory from 1869 to 1875.

Emilio Aguinaldo was born on 22 March 1869 in Cavite Viejo ( present-day Kawit ), Cavite, to Carlos Aguinaldo and Trinidad Famy, a Chinese mestizo couple who had eight children, the seventh of which was Emilio.

His father was Cecil Arthur Verner Bowra ( 1869 – 1947 ) of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs.

* Chinese at Promontory, May 10, 1869.

In 1869, having conciliated the Vietnamese, Liu also won favour with the Chinese authorities by committing the Black Flag Army to a Chinese punitive campaign against the Yellow Flags, which gave him the opportunity to cripple this rival bandit army.

The discovery of gold, silver and other valuable natural resources throughout Idaho beginning in the 1860s, as well as the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, brought many new people to the territory, including Chinese laborers who came to work the mines.

There were four thousand Chinese living in the Idaho Territory from 1869 to 1875.

Looking to escape the anti-Chinese violence that had broken out on the west coast, the first Chinese arrived in Chicago after 1869 when the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed.

His last work of importance was Syntaxe nouvelle de la langue Chinoise fondée sur la position des mots, suivie de deux traités sur les particules et les principaux termes de grammaire, d ' une table des idiotismes, de fables, de légendes et d ' apologues ( 1869 ), for many years the standard grammar for the Chinese language.

Because of financial problems the School had to restrict its services solely to orphans and destitute Chinese girls in 1869.

Between 1869 and 1885 Japan barred immigration to Hawaii in fears that Japanese laborers would be degrading to the reputation of the Japanese race, like what had been for the Chinese.

Dr. Man-Kai Wan, 尹文階 ( 1869 – 1927 ) was one of the first Chinese doctors of Western medicine in Hong Kong, the inaugural Chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese Medical Association 香 港 中 華 醫 學 會 ( 1920 – 1922, forerunner of Hong Kong Medical Association ), and a secondary school classmate of Sun Yat-Sen ( 孫中山, 1866 – 1925, the leader of Kuomintang 中國國民黨, Chinese Nationalist Party ) in The Government Central College ( 中央書院, currently known as Queen's College, Hong Kong皇仁書院 ) in Hong Kong.

Hart was succeeded by Sir Francis Aglen ( 1869 – 1932 ) ( Chinese name 安格联 ) and then by his own nephew, Sir Frederick Maze ( 1871 – 1959 ) ( Chinese name 梅乐和 ), who served from 1929-1943.

* Goff Leea Chinese cook, was hanged for murder in December 1869.

In Rossiia i Europa ( 1869 ) he differentiated between various smaller civilizations ( Egyptian, Chinese, Persian, Greek, Roman, German, and Slav, among others ).

Sri Temasek ( Chinese: 斯里淡马锡 ) is a two-storey detached house built in 1869 which is sited within the grounds of the Istana in Singapore.

Originally proposed by Edward Drinker Cope in 1869, the family was resurrected by Chinese paleontologist Dong Zhiming in 2001 after study of Bienosaurus, which shares close affinities with Scelidosaurus.