* 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 – 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 )

Helene Kröller-Müller, ( February 11, 1869 – December 14, 1939 ) was one of the first European women to put together a major art collection.

* 1869 – Helene Stöcker, German feminist, pacifist and publicist ( d. 1943 )

The brothers and sisters were Jørgine Caroline ( 1854 – 1879 ), Mathilde Sophie ( born 1856 ), Karen Marie ( 1857 – 1876 ), Jørgen Peter ( born 1859 ) emigrated to Australia, Johan Sophus ( 1861 – 1942 ) emigrated to USA, Christian Albert ( born 1863 ) emigrated to USA, Carl August ( 1865 – 1931 ), Anders Jacob ( born 1867 ) emigrated to USA, Helene Christine Louise ( born 1869 ) emigrated to USA, Valdemar Emil ( 1871 – 1965 ), Julie Christine ( born 1872 ), Anna Dusine ( 8 January to 2 April 1875 ). All the children bore the surname Nielsen despite regulations by the Ministry of Church Affairs.

Their mother, Helene Monsen Søndervåg ( 1869 – 1902 ), died when Reksten was only four years old.

Shortly after, in 1869, Irish chemist Thomas Andrews studied the phase transition from a liquid to a gas and coined the term critical point to describe the instant at which a gas and a liquid were indistinguishable as phases, and Dutch physicist Johannes van der Waals supplied the theoretical framework which allowed the prediction of critical behavior based on measurements at much higher temperatures.

A larger immigration wave began in 1869, primarily of Dutch.

His biography was written ( in Dutch ) by his pupil Bakhuizen van der Brink ( 1865 ); for an appreciation of his services to classical literature see L Müller, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in den Nederlanden ( 1869 ).

( 1869 ) is founded on the rising of the Dutch Geuzen at the end of the 16th century, and was made into a popular opera by Emile Paladihle in 1886.

* Glossaire des mots espagnols et portugais, dérivés de l ' arabe, edited with W. H. Engelmann of Leipzig ( 1861 ; 2nd ed., 1869 ), and a similar list of Dutch words derived from the Arabic.

* March 5-Ernst Cohen ( born 1869 ), Dutch Jewish chemist ( in Auschwitz concentration camp ).

The Lorentz – Lorenz equation is named after the Danish mathematician and scientist Ludvig Lorenz, who published it in 1869, and the Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz, who discovered it independently in 1878.

Louis Raemaekers ( April 6, 1869 in Roermond-July 26, 1956 in Scheveningen ) was a Dutch painter and cartoonist for the Amsterdam Telegraaf during World War I, noted for his anti-German stance.

Following the 1869 opening of the Suez Canal and changing shipping routes, the British and Dutch signed the 1871 Anglo-Dutch Treaty of Sumatra which ended British territorial claims to Sumatra, allowing the Dutch a free hand within their sphere of influence in Maritime Southeast Asia while handing them the responsibility to check piracy.

Alexandrine Petronella Francina Tinne ( alternative spellings: Pieternella, Françoise, Tinné ) ( October 17, 1835 – August 1, 1869 ) was a Dutch explorer in Africa and the first European woman to attempt to cross the Sahara.

Hendrikus ( Hendrik ) Colijn ( 22 June 1869 – 18 September 1944 ) was a Dutch soldier, businessman and politician.

However, Dutch language coins were introduced from 1869.

The birthplace of Mary Chase Perry Stratton, founder of Pewabic Pottery, " escaped the 1869 fire "; it is now called Pewabic House and run as a museum.

The Reverend Alexander Dyce was another benefactor of the library, leaving over 14, 000 books to the museum in 1869.

The Lillian E. Jones museum is housed in a house built in 1869.

In 1856 he became a Privatdozent, and in 1858 extraordinary professor at Leipzig ; in 1861 professor of philology and archaeology at Tübingen ; in 1864 professor of classical antiquities at Zürich ; in 1869 at Jena, where he was also director of the archaeological museum ; and in 1874 at Munich, where he remained until his death.

The sculptor Gustav Vigeland ( 1869 – 1943 ) was born in Mandal, and has a museum dedicated to him here.

In 1860 the skeleton of a mammoth was found near Lier and was brought to the museum ( on display since 1869 ).

Among his more important works may be named Women Gleaning, and The Day after St Sebastian's Day ( 1855 ), which gained him a third-class medal ; Blessing the Fields ( 1857 ), a second-class medal ; Erecting a Calvary ( 1859 ), now in the Lille gallery ; The Return of the Gleaners ( 1859 ), now in the Luxembourg ; Evening and Women Weeding ( 1861 ), a first-class medal ; Grandfather's Birthday ( 1862 ); The Close of Day ( 1865 ); Harvest ( 1867 ); Potato Gatherers ( 1868 ); A Pardon, Brittany ( 1869 ); The Fountain ( 1872 ), medal of honour ; The Bonfires of St John ( 1875 ); Women mending Nets ( 1876 ), in the Douai museum ; A Gleaner ( 1877 ), Luxembourg ; Evening, Finistère ( 1881 ); The Song of the Lark ( 1884 ); The Last Sunbeam ( 1885 ); The Shepherd's Star ( 1888 ); The Call Home ( 1889 ); The Last Gleanings ( 1895 ); Gathering Poppies ( 1897 ); The Alarm Cry ( 1899 ); Twilight Glory ( 1900 ).

In 1869 he founded the chair and museum of dermatology in the Royal College of Surgeons, of which he was chosen president in 1881, and which just before his death awarded him its honorary gold medal, which had been founded in 1800 and only awarded on six previous occasions.

In 1860 the skeleton of a mammoth was found near Lier and was brought to the museum ( on display since 1869 ).

In 1869 the current, purpose built headquarters of Irish Freemasonry, Freemasons ' Hall on Molesworth Street, opened, housing dramatically decorated Lodge rooms, a library, museum, offices and dining areas.

The first museum was built from 1863 to 1869 by architects Georg Theodor Schirrmacher and Hermann von der Hude.

It was purchased for the museum for 60, 000 francs in 1869.

He was curator of the museum at Nantes from 1836 to 1869.