* 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 )

On March 1 1869, exactly one year after the Alpha Chapter at the University of Virginia was formed, the Beta Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha was founded at Davidson College.

His longer poems are Alice of Monmouth: an Idyl of the Great War ( 1864 ); The Blameless Prince ( 1869 ), an allegory of good deeds, supposed to have been remotely suggested by the life of Prince Albert ; and an elaborate commemorative ode on Nathaniel Hawthorne, read before the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1877.

Sigma Nu's existence remained secret until the founders publicly announced their new society on the first day of January 1869, which is the fraternity's accepted birth date.

Published in 1869, The Chapter was a brief compilation of poems written by members of the Zeta Psi Fraternity.

* is the name of three different US warships between 1869 and 1972

The number of Associate Justices is determined by the United States Congress and is currently set at eight by the Judiciary Act of 1869.

Although earlier precursors to this presentation exist, its invention is generally credited to Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869, who intended the table to illustrate recurring trends in the properties of the elements.

The great edition, of which the text and apparatus appeared in 1869 and 1872, was called by himself editio viii ; but this number is raised to twenty or twenty-one, if mere reprints from stereotype plates and the minor editions of his great critical texts are included ; posthumous prints bring the total to forty-one.

The first ever intercollegiate football game between two American teams played under rules which would eventually become the rules under which modern American football is governed occurred between Princeton and Rutgers University in 1869.

An 1869 game of intercollegiate " football " between Rutgers and Princeton is often cited as the first intercollegiate American football game, however it was an unfamiliar ancestor of today's college football, as it was played under 6-year-old soccer-style Association rules.

The game played between teams from Rutgers University and Princeton University, which was called the College of New Jersey at the time, took place on November 6, 1869 at College Field, which is now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

The 1869 game between Rutgers and Princeton is important in that it is the first documented game of something called intercollegiate " football " ever played between two American colleges, and because of this, Rutgers refers to itself as The Birthplace of College Football.

That is except for a small number built in the 1860s, and the last American clipper ship from the East Boston shipyard of Donald McKay in 1869, the Glory of the Seas.

This Latin motto is literally translated as Perhaps and first appeared in the first Dalhousie Gazette of 1869.

Thomas Fowler ( 1869 ) states the paradox as follows: " Epimenides the Cretan says, ' that all the Cretans are liars ,' but Epimenides is himself a Cretan ; therefore he is himself a liar.

* 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the " Welcome Stranger ", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.

Reasoning that eminence is caused by genetic traits, he did a study of their heritability, publishing it in 1869 as Hereditary Genius.

One of the more famous examples is the painting Degas's Father Listening to Lorenzo Pagans Playing the Guitar by Edgar Degas, which was painted sometime between 1869 – 72 and is currently owned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Verdi's grand opera, Aida, is sometimes thought to have been commissioned for the celebration of the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, but, according to one major critic, Verdi turned down the Khedive's invitation to write an " ode " for the new opera house he was planning to inaugurate as part of the canal opening festivities.

Wade is seven years old in 1869 when his sister, Eugenie Victoria, named after two queens, arrives in the world.

The Polynesian conception of the universe and its division is nicely illustrated by a famous drawing made by a Tuomotuan chief in 1869.