* 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 )

* 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 )

In 1869, the British military band instructor John William Fenton, who was then working in Yokohama as a o-yatoi gaikokujin, told the members of Japan's military band about the British national anthem " God Save the King " and emphasized the necessity of a similar national anthem for Japan.

The eruptions of Mount Asama mark the span of Japan's recorded history, including: 2009, 2008, 2004, 2003, 1995, 1990, 1983, 1982, 1973, 1965, 1961, 1958 – 59, 1953 – 55, 1952, 1952, 1950 – 51, 1949, 1947, 1946, 1944 – 45, 1938 – 42, 1935 – 37, 1934, 1934, 1933, 1931 – 32, 1930, 1929, 1929, 1927 – 28, 1924, 1922, 1920 – 21, 1919, 1918 ?, 1917, 1916, 1915, 1914, 1909 – 14, 1908, 1908, 1907, 1907, 1906, 1905 ?, 1904, 1903, 1902, 1902, 1900 – 01, 1899, 1899, 1894, 1889, 1879, 1878 ?, 1875, 1869, 1815, 1803, 1803, 1783, 1779 ?, 1777, 1776, 1769, 1762, 1755, 1754, 1733, 1732, 1731, 1729, 1729, 1728, 1723, 1723, 1722, 1721, 1720, 1719, 1718, 1717, 1711, 1710, 1708 – 09, 1706, 1704, 1703, 1669, 1661, 1661, 1660, 1659, 1658, 1657, 1656, 1655, 1653, 1652, 1651, 1650 ?, 1649, 1648, 1648, 1647, 1645, 1644, 1609, 1605, 1604, 1600, 1598, 1597, 1596, 1596, 1595 ?, 1591, 1590, 1532, 1528, 1527, 1518, 1427 ?, 1281, 1108, 887, 685.

In July 1869, the Imperial Japanese Navy was formally established, two months after the last military engagement of the Boshin War-the private navies of the Japanese nobles were abolished and their 11 ships were added to the 7 surviving vessels of the defunct Tokugawa bakufu navy, including the Kankō Maru, Japan's first steam warship.

The Meiji oligarchs, as part of their Westernizing reforms, merged the kuge with the former daimyo ( feudal lords ) into an expanded aristocratic class on 25 July 1869, to recognize that the kuge and former daimyo were a social class distinct from the other designated social classes of shizoku ( former samurai ) and heimin ( commoners ).

However, Yokoi was assassinated in 1869 by conservative samurai who suspected him of being a Christian, and of harboring secret republican sentiments.

During a council meeting in June 1869, Ōmura argued that if “ the government was determined to become militarily independent and powerful, it was necessary to abolish the fiefs and the feudal armies, to do away with the privileges of the samurai class, and to introduce universal military conscription .” Ōmura's ideal military consisted of an army patterned after that of the Napoleonic French armies and a navy that was patterned after the British Royal Navy.

Nambu was born as the younger son to a former samurai retainer of the Nabeshima clan, in Saga domain in 1869 ( present-day Saga prefecture ).

The papyrus remained in the collection of Edwin Smith until at least 1869 when there appeared, in the catalog of an antiquities dealer, an advertisement for " a large medical papyrus in the possession of Edwin Smith, an American farmer of Luxor.

In 1869 she married William H. Spencer, a debt-ridden farmer of Piffard, New York.

William Carleton ( 1794 – 1869 ) came from a large family and his father was a poor tenant farmer.

Purvis was born in Timmonsville, South Carolina, to Melvin Horace Purvis, Sr. ( 1869 – 1938 ), a pig farmer, and Janie Elizabeth ( née Mims, 1874 – 1927 ) as the fifth of twelve siblings.

Pre-1937 buildings that survive include: Dambadarjaalin monastery in Sukhbaatar District ( 1765 ), Dashchoilin monastery's large yurt chapels ( built in 1778 ), Gandan monastery's golden-roofed Gandantegchinlen temple also called the Tsogchin dugan ( 1838 ), Vajradhara temple ( 1841 ), Zuu temple ( 1869 ), Didan Laviran temple ( 19th century ), the restored Russian Consulate building ( 1863 ), Erdem Itgemjit temple ( 1893 ) at the Bogd Khan's Winter Palace, rest of the buildings at the same Palace ( 1893 – 1906 ), the Museum of Ulaanbaatar's History which was formerly the private residence of the rich Buryat merchant Tsogt Badamjav ( 1904 ), Zanabazar's Art Museum building which was formerly called the Ondor Khorshoo ( 1905 ), the two-storey brick headquarters of the mining company " Mongolore " ( 1905 ), the tall Megjid Janraisig temple ( 1913 – 1914 ), the residence of Chin Wang Khanddorj, a prominent noble and politician in the early years of Mongolia's independence ( 1913 ), the first telephone building where Russian Orthodox choir singers stayed ( 1914 ), Marshal Zhukov Museum etc.

Flanders began as settlement around a sawmill in 1869 and was named for local lumber merchant S. W.

* James William Jones ( 1869 – 1954 ), merchant, realtor and political figure in British Columbia, Canada

He established himself as a merchant and trader in Red River Colony, and appears to have become wealthy by the time of the 1869 Red River Rebellion.

In June 1869, he moved to the new development of Horton's Addition, also known as New Town, organized and promoted by the successful land merchant Alonzo Horton.

Adolph Edward Borie ( November 25, 1809 – February 5, 1880 ) was a United States merchant and politician who briefly served ( 1869 ) as Secretary of the Navy in the Ulysses S. Grant administration.

He was the fourth of six sons of a Salford Unitarian cotton merchant, also called Thomas, and his second wife Susanna ( 1792 – 1869 ).

Under the leadership of Sadie the Goat, the gang stole a sloop in 1869 and soon began raiding merchant shipping and raiding homes along the Hudson River from the Harlem River as far as Poughkeepsie and Albany, New York.

In 1869 Jefferson Davis, the only President of the Confederate States of America, stayed in Dowanhill while visiting the Glasgow merchant James Smith.