* 1869 – The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.

Subsequent productions include the Prince of Wales's Theatre's in 1872 and it was also the inaugural play at the new California Theatre in San Francisco in 1869.

Recently, new documents have surfaced revealing Rasputin's birth date as 10 January 1869 O. S.

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.

Although precursors exist, the current table is generally credited to Dmitri Mendeleev, who developed it in 1869 to illustrate periodic trends in the properties of the then-known elements ; the layout has been refined and extended as new elements have been discovered and new theoretical models developed to explain chemical behavior.

Finally in 1869 the growth had to be checked by magisterial control and new licensing laws were introduced.

In 1869, the Beach Pneumatic Transit Company of New York secretly constructed a 95 m long, 2. 7 m diameter pneumatic subway line under Broadway, to demonstrate the possibilities of the new transport mode.

Similar sanitation reforms, prompted by the Public Health Acts 1848 and 1869, were made in the crowded, dirty streets of the existing cities, and soap was the main product shown in the relatively new phenomenon of advertising.

Bruckner was a renowned organist in his day, impressing audiences in France in 1869, and England in 1871, giving six recitals on a new Henry Willis organ at Royal Albert Hall in London and five more at the Crystal Palace.

From 1869, some European nations began to develop new multi-purpose sword bayonets suitable for mass production and for use by constabulary ( police ), pioneer, and engineer troops.

Between 1859 and 1869, under the direction of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez, a French company, built the Suez Canal, opening a new chapter in global transportation and trade.

When the Semper-designed Hoftheater burnt down in 1869, King John, on the urging of the citizenry, commissioned Semper to build a new one.

In 1869, the year after the Meiji Restoration, the daimyo, together with the kuge, formed a new aristocracy, the kazoku.

It was only renamed Surbiton to distinguish it from the new Kingston railway station on the Shepperton branch line, which opened on 1 January 1869.

In 1869, the Central Pacific Railroad was in the process of creating a new route, and pioneer settlers Ezekiel Lawrence, Reuben Wardrobe, A. C. Ayers and John Magley offered a townsite of to the railroad as an incentive to build a station there.

The new village was laid out early in 1869 by J. H.

Construction began on the railroad in 1869. The new townsite occupied forty acres on each side of the tracks.

He became the proprietor of the new town, and the Village of Heyworth was incorporated on March 31, 1869.

It was named after William G. Greene of nearby Tallula Precinct, because he convinced the railroad to come through the town: located on the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad, Greenview was incorporated by a special act of the Illinois General Assembly on May 6, 1869, then re-incorporated under the new general municipal laws of the state in March 7, 1877.

The new town of Chauncey remained a small suburban village until Purdue University opened in 1869.

Community growth necessitated the construction of a new town hall, and construction of the new town hall was started in 1869 and completed in 1870.

Some time after 1869, probably 1873-74, Griffith and Grant built a grain elevator alongside the new Grand River Valley Division of the Michigan Central Railroad.

It was reincorporated March 12, 1869 and received its new charter in 1875.

The children's book Ten Mile Day by Mary Ann Fraser tells the story of the final, record setting push by the Central Pacific in which they set a record by laying of track in a single day on April 28, 1869 to settle a $ 10, 000 bet.

The 132-page volume was published in 1869, and brought Tubman some US $ 1, 200 in revenue.

The first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, providing faster, safer, and usually cheaper travel east and west ( the journey took seven days and cost as little as $ 65 ).

Forry's Mill Covered Bridge was originally built in 1869 by Elias McMellen for a cost of $ 2969.

After a series of disputes, Allen County's first jail was constructed in Iola in 1869 at a cost of $ 8, 400.

In 1869, after the fort was abandoned, the land of the reservation was returned to the public and offered for sale at $ 1. 25 per acre to settlers.

Tax rolls for 1869 show that Ross had of orange trees valued at $ 600.

The school moved several times over the years, until 1869, when a brick school was built for $ 14, 000.

The town was renamed in 1869 after Henry G. Marquand, a railroad administrator, who donated $ 1, 000 for the construction of a church.

In 1869, a four-room brick schoolhouse was constructed at a cost of $ 11, 500.

According to an Easton paper of January 19, 1869, Mrs. Sophia Sandt rode from Pennsylvania to New Jersey and back again in her sleigh “ amidst the applause of the people .” The bridge, of the Burr Truss type, was 775 feet long, 18 feet wide, and cost about $ 40, 000 to construct.

The award is a tribute to well-known Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock ( 1869 – 1944 ), and is accompanied by a cash prize of $ 15, 000 ( CAD ).

The official treaty, drafted by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish in October 1869, annexed the Dominican Republic into the United States, gave eventual statehood, the lease of Samaná Bay for $ 150, 000 yearly, and a $ 1, 500, 000 payment of the Dominican national debt.

In October 1869, Fish drew up a formal treaty that included: a $ 1, 500, 000 payment of the Dominican national debt ; Samaná Bay would be leased to the United States for $ 150, 000 yearly payment ; Santo Domingo would eventually be given statehood.

When Barron sold the island in 1869 to ten investors from San Francisco for $ 150, 000, Shaw left for San Francisco and Los Alamos where he continued ranching.

* 1869: A new $ 10 United States Note was issued with a portrait of Daniel Webster on the left and an allegorical representation of Pocahontas being presented to the Royal Court of England on the right side of the obverse.

* 1869: A new $ 50 United States Note was issued with a portrait of Henry Clay on the right and an allegorical figure holding a laurel branch on the left of the obverse.

* 1869: A new $ 100 United States Note was issued with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the left of the obverse and an allegorical figure representing architecture on the right.

By 1869 the $ 2 United States Note was redesigned with the now familiar portrait of Thomas Jefferson to the left and a vignette of the United States Capitol in the center of the obverse.

* 1869: The $ 1 United States Note was redesigned with a portrait of George Washington in the center and a vignette of Christopher Columbus sighting land to the left.

In 1869, Henry Keep, a former President of the New York Central Railroad, was dying and asked Roswell Flower, whose wife was a sister of Keep's wife Emma, to manage the $ 4, 000, 000 estate for his widow.

In 1869, Congress changed how the grants were to be distributed, requiring the railroads to sell land along the line to settlers in parcels at $ 2. 50 per acre.