* 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 )

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

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

Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1869.

Records show that it was first a mission of Opelousas beginning in 1856 but that in 1869 it was created as a separate parish called Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

* William Sydney Mount, painter ( 1787 – 1869 )

The first mountain cog railway was the Mount Washington Cog Railway in the US state of New Hampshire, which carried its first fare-paying passengers in 1868 and reached the summit of Mount Washington in 1869.

Other Victorian era tourist attractions included a coach road ( 1861 )— now the Mount Washington Auto Road — and the Mount Washington Cog Railway ( 1869 ), both of which are still in operation.

Since 1869, the Mount Washington Cog Railway has provided tourists with a train journey to the summit of Mount Washington.

Image: JKensett Mount Washington ( JJH-JFK001 ). jpg | John F. Kensett ( 1869 )

* Father Cuthbert Dunne C. P., ( 1869 – 1950 ), was a Passionist priest from Mount Argus, who carried out the deathbed conversion of Oscar Wilde to the catholic faith in Paris.

William Francis Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple PC ( 13 December 1811 – 16 October 1888 ), known as William Cowper ( pronounced " Cooper ") before 1869 and as William Cowper-Temple between 1869 and 1880, was a British Liberal Party politician and statesman.

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.

Image: JKensett Mount Washington ( JJH-JFK001 ). jpg | Mount Washington from the Valley of Conway, 1869, The Wellesley College Museum

In 1869 the Mount Holly, Lumberton and Medford Railroad opened under C & A lease, running south from Mount Holly to Medford.

Emily died 11 September 1869, leaving her second husband's estates, including Broadlands in Hampshire, to her second son, William, who thereupon adopted by Royal license the surname Cowper-Temple, in whose favour the Mount Temple title was revived in 1880.

* William Mount ( Isle of Wight MP ) ( 1787 – 1869 ), Member of Parliament for Yarmouth and Newport, Isle of Wight

The Sisterhood was founded January 21, 1869, as a seven-member sorority at Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.

Mount Harvard was named in 1869 by members of the first Harvard Mining School class, while on expedition with professor Josiah Dwight Whitney, the namesake of Mount Whitney.

John Forrest, during his 1869 exploring expedition, named Mount Malcolm, Mount Flora and Mount Margaret all in honour of members of the Hamersley family.

Image: Berthe Morisot The Harbor at Lorient. jpg | The Harbor at Lorient, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 1869

* The Newsboy Newsboy Boy ( 1869 ; Oil ; 30 1 / 8 x 25 inches ; NMAA, Washington D. C .)

Berthe Morisot, The Harbor at Lorient, 1869, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

* 1869 – National convention of black leaders meets in Washington, D. C.

* 1869 – Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil ( d. 1957 )

On October 4, 1869, George Washington Smith, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, was murdered by a band of vigilantes while incarcerated in Jefferson.

When he was relieved of the command of the Squadron in 1869, he returned to the Washington Navy Yard where he served until his death in 1870.

The borough was ultimately named for the " Washington House ", a tavern built by Revolutionary War Col. William McCullough in 1811 that was later destroyed by fire in 1869.

1868, Lewis Robins ; 1869, Washington Snyder ; 1870 – 1871, Sylvester M. Lester ; 1872 – 1873, George F. Rogers ; 1874 – 1875, Alvin H. Cipperly ; 1876 – 1880, Arthur M. Peck ; 1881 – 1885, James C. Cotton ; 1886 – 1888, Sanford B. Horton ; 1889 – 1895, Frank Pettit ; 1896 -, John B. Martin.

In order to create a second means of egress from the mine, as required by the mine safety law enacted after the 1869 Avondale mine disaster, BC & C drove to the west to connect with its Washington mine.

The Railroad Company started to build rail lines from Pittsburgh in 1857, to Canonsburg in 1869, finally completed to Washington in 1871.

His first blue-water command, in 1869, was the barque Washington, which he took across the Pacific, from San Francisco to Australia, and home via Alaska.

Between 1869 and 1889, he was the master of eight vessels, the first four of which ( the Washington, the Constitution, the Benjamin Aymar and the Amethyst ) he commanded in the employ of others.

It was signed at Washington in 1868 and ratified at Beijing in 1869.

He returned to Washington as a member of the US House of Representatives and was even a Republican candidate for the US Senate in 1869 before he withdrew himself from candidacy.

During 1868 – 69 he built the church, doing much of the work himself, and in 1869 he opened Seattle ’ s first Catholic church at Third Avenue and Washington Street, on the site where the present-day Prefontaine Building stands.

* L. t. littoralis S. F. Baird, 1869 also known as “ Hepburn ’ s Rosy-Finch ,” “ Gray-headed Rosy-Finch ”, " Gray-cheeked Rosy-Finch "), breeds in south-central Alaska east to western Canada ( SW Yukon, NW British Columbia ) and western United States from Washington and Oregon ( along Cascade Mountains ) to northern California ( Mt Shasta ); winters in southern section of breeding range East to central Montana, western Nevada, northern Utah and central New Mexico.