* 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 )

The earliest introduction of child removal to legislation is recorded in the Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act 1869.

The Local Government Board Act 1871 put the supervision of the Poor Law under the Local Government Board ( headed by G. J. Goschen ) and Gladstone's " administration could claim spectacular success in enforcing a dramatic reduction in supposedly sentimental and unsystematic outdoor poor relief, and in making, in co-operation with the Charity Organization Society ( 1869 ), the most sustained attempt of the century to impose upon the working classes the Victorian values of providence, self-reliance, foresight, and self-discipline ".

The port of Portsmouth declined, but the city survived through its Victorian doldrums, a time described in the works of native son Thomas Bailey Aldrich, particularly in his 1869 novel The Story of a Bad Boy.

* Winslow Homer ( 1836 – 1910 ), stayed in Long Branch in 1869, while he produced paintings of Victorian women strolling the boardwalks.

Todmorden has the look of a Victorian mill town and has some notable buildings including Dobroyd Castle ( completed in 1869 ), now used as a residential activity centre for schoolchildren ; the Edwardian Hippodrome Theatre ; an imposing Greek Revival town hall ( built 1866 – 1875 ) that dominates the centre of town ; the Grade I listed Todmorden Unitarian Church ( built 1865 – 1869 ); and the 120 ft Stoodley Pike monument ( built 1814 and rebuilt in 1854 ) atop the hill of the same name.

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.

The Victorian photographer Henry Taunt set up a shop at 33 Cornmarket Street in 1869.

Charlotte Mary Mew ( 15 November 1869 – 24 March 1928 ) was an English poet, whose work spans the cusp between Victorian poetry and Modernism.

His works were widely read during his lifetime, and by 1869 he was able to support himself solely on the profit of book sales and on income from his regular contributions to Victorian periodicals which were collected as three volumes of Essays.

* Trout Ponds-This beautiful Victorian park was built in 1869 by Mr. Waring who wanted to breed trout, provide a recreation area for the public, and provide a place to build custom fly rods.

Clevedon Pier was opened in 1869, one of the earliest examples of a Victorian pier still in existence in the United Kingdom.

Clevedon Pier was opened on Easter Monday 1869, one of the earliest examples of a Victorian pier still in existence in the United Kingdom.

In 1869, " dissatisfied with the failure of the Victorian government to fulfil what he conceived to be its obligations to him ", he returned to England.

The oldest surviving building in Taree is the old St Paul's Presbyterian Church, built in 1869 in the Victorian Gothic Revival style, next door to the current building, in Albert Street.

Highcroft Hall was built between 1869 and 1871 by Victorian architect Yeoville Thomason.

Ocean Grove, New Jersey, founded in 1869, has been called the " Queen of the Victorian Methodist Camp Meetings.

ZHC / 3287 Report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the construction, condition and cost of the fortifications erected or in course of erection, under 30 / 31 Victorian and previous statutes, 1869

Diagonally opposite stands the Victorian branch of the Royal Mint, established 7 August 1869.

In the episode, alien time traveller the Doctor ( Christopher Eccleston ) and his companion Rose Tyler ( Billie Piper ) travel to Victorian Cardiff in 1869 where there have been sightings of strange gas-like creatures.

Completed in 1869 to the designs of architect John Thomas Rochead at a cost of £ 18, 000, the monument is a 67-metre ( 220 ft ) sandstone tower, built in the Victorian Gothic style.

The Victoria Aboriginal Protection Board, established by the Aboriginal Protection Act of 1869 ( replacing the Central Board Appointed to Watch Over the Interests of the Aborigines ), made Victoria the first colony to enact comprehensive regulations on the lives of Victorian Aborigines.

Sir Albert W Woods, Royal Victorian Order | GCVO, Order of the Bath | KCB, Order of St Michael and St George | KCMG, Venerable Order of Saint John | KGStJ, Society of Antiquaries of London | FSA, Garter Principal King of Arms from 1869 until 1904.

Built as a Victorian folly in 1869, the castle caps Vista Rock, the park's second-highest natural elevation Constructed of Manhattan schist quarried in the park and dressed with gray granite, it tops the natural-looking woodlands of The Ramble, as seen from the formal Bethesda Terrace.