As a consequence of its use for transporting strawberries to market, the since-closed Cheddar Valley line became known as The Strawberry Line after it opened in 1869.

The settlement there became the town of Palmerston in 1869, and was renamed Darwin in 1911.

The bay's regional importance became paramount when the First Transcontinental Railroad reached its western terminus in Alameda on September 6, 1869.

Other female students of this period includes Lydia Wahlström ( 1869 – 1954 ) who later became a noted educator, activist and writer on women's emancipation and suffrage.

It became the second institution in New Zealand providing tertiary-level education ( following the University of Otago, established in 1869 ), and the fourth in Australasia.

In 1869, Morris and Rossetti rented a country house, Kelmscott Manor at Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, as a summer retreat, but it soon became a retreat for Rossetti and Jane Morris to have a long-lasting and complicated liaison.

He continued his education at home where one of his tutors was the Reverend John Dann, who was the Downend parish church curate ; like Mr Barnard before him, Mr Dann became Grace's brother-in-law, marrying Blanche Grace in 1869.

Grace became a member of Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) in 1869 after being proposed by the treasurer, Thomas Burgoyne, and seconded by the secretary, Robert Allan Fitzgerald.

The Métis became more fearful when the Canadian government appointed the notoriously anti-French William McDougall as the Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories on September 28, 1869, in anticipation of a formal transfer to take effect in December.

When Grant became president in 1869, Sherman was appointed Commanding General of the United States Army and promoted to General of the Army.

He became one of the Heralds overseas correspondents and, in 1869, was instructed by Bennett's son to find the Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone, who was known to be in Africa but had not been heard from for some time.

Pope Pius IX announced an ecumenical council, which became known as the First Vatican Council, to take place in the Vatican on 8 December 1869, Pecci was likely to be well informed, since his brother Giuseppe had been named by the Pope to be one of the persons to prepare this event.

From 1863 to 1869, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson ( who became president on April 14, 1865 ) took a moderate position designed to bring the South back to normal as soon as possible, while the Radical Republicans ( as they called themselves ) used Congress to block the moderate approach, impose harsh terms, and upgrade the rights of the Freedmen ( former slaves ).

In 1869 he became an apprentice to a photographer named Maurice Guttenberg.

Laramie County became a county in the Wyoming Territory when the territorial government was formed in 1869.

It became a county in Wyoming Territory when that territory's government was formally organized on May 19, 1869.

It became a county in Wyoming Territory when that territory's government was formally organized on May 19, 1869.

Nilsson became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1869.

Built in 1869 by the East London Railway Company, which reused the Thames Tunnel, originally intended for horse-drawn carriages, the line became part of the London Underground network in 1933.

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

Alburtus T. Hoxie, son of L. S., became the first postmaster of Acme in 1869.

After the construction of the Suez Canal in 1869, which instantly became the main shipping-route to British India, successive British governments decided that Egypt was simply too strategic to be left to its own devices and imposed a military protectorate over the country.

Michigan became the 26th state in 1837, and the Village of Rochester was formed on April 12, 1869, within the boundaries of Avon Township.

Lutesville, which had been founded in 1869 and later became the main business and shipping center for the area, merged with Marble Hill and maintained the name of Marble Hill because it was the current county seat.

The town, founded in 1869, is named for the vice president of the United States, Schuyler M. Colfax, who served in the first term of U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant, for whom the parish is named.

The two vice presidents were a Serb, Svetozar Pribićević, and a Croat, Ante Pavelić ( politician born 1869 ).

From 1864 to 1869 he was a cashier and vice president with the First National Bank of Ithaca.

The sleeve stripes now used by admirals and vice admirals in the United States date from March 11, 1869, when the Secretary of the Navy's General Order Number 90 specified that for their " undress " uniforms admirals would wear a two-inch stripe with three half-inch stripes above it and vice admirals the two-inch stripe with two half-inch stripes above it.

The second president from Ohio, Grant was elected the 18th President of the United States in 1868, and was re-elected to the office in 1872 ; he served as President from March 4, 1869, to March 4, 1877.

Amelia Mary Earhart, daughter of German American Samuel " Edwin " Stanton Earhart ( born March 28, 1867 ) and Amelia " Amy " Otis Earhart ( 1869 – 1962 ), was born in Atchison, Kansas, in the home of her maternal grandfather, Alfred Gideon Otis ( 1827 – 1912 ), a former federal judge, president of the Atchison Savings Bank and a leading citizen in the town.

In 1869, Thomas Hughes, a Union-sympathizer and president of East Tennessee University, secured federal wartime restitution funding and state-designated Morrill Act funding to expand the college, which had been occupied by both armies during the war.

In 1869, Virchow founded the Society for anthropology, ethnology and prehistory ( Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte ) which was very influential in coordinating and intensifying German archaeological research, and of which he was several times president.

* Stanisław Wojciechowski ( 1869 – 1953 ), president of Poland

Charles William Eliot ( March 20, 1834 – August 22, 1926 ) was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869.

In 1869 he became president of the Kentucky Central Railroad and kept this position until he was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1879.

Edmund Burke Fairfield was the college's second president, leading Hillsdale from 1848 to 1869.

James Calder was the college's third president, serving from 1869 to 1871.

* John Martin Thomas ( 1869 – 1952 ), Twelfth president of Rutgers University

When Bernard J. McQuaid left Seton Hall in 1869 to assume his duties as bishop of the Diocese of Rochester, Corrigan succeeded him as president of that institution and also became vicar general of the Diocese of Newark.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford ( November 8, 1869 – January 8, 1942 ), also known as " Judge " Rutherford, was the second president of the incorporated Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, and played a primary role in the organization and doctrinal development of Jehovah's Witnesses, which emerged from the Bible Student movement established by Charles Taze Russell.

* Henry Keep, ( 1818 – 1869 ), born in Adams, noted financier and president of several railroad firms, he left an estate of over four million dollars.

In April 1908 Bresee accepted Edgar P. Ellyson, president of the Holiness University of Texas of Peniel, Texas, his wife, Mary Emily Ellyson ( 1869 – 1943 ), and many leaders and members of the Holiness Association of Texas into the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, with Emily Ellyson elected pastor of the new congregation at Peniel.

Howard served as president from 1869 to 1874.

George H. Whitney, D. D., was president from 1869 to 1895.

Hadley was elected by the Reconstruction state legislature as a Republican to serve in the Arkansas Senate from 1869 to 1871 ; he was elected president of the Senate in 1871.

Mary Ketcham Gilman died in 1869, and Daniel Coit Gilman married his second wife, Elisabeth Dwight Woolsey, daughter of John M. Woolsey of Cleveland, Ohio, and niece of Yale president Theodore Dwight Woolsey, in 1877.

Crocker was briefly the controlling shareholder of Wells Fargo in 1869 and served as president.

After the American Civil War during the Reconstruction Era of the United States 1863 to 1869, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson undertook policies designed to bring the South back to normal as soon as possible, while the Radical Republicans used Congress to block the president, impose harsh terms, and upgrade the rights of the Freedmen ( the ex-slaves ).

After the overthrow of Falcón in 1868, Guzmán left the country, but headed a revolution in 1869, and in 1870 became provisional president with extraordinary powers, ruling the country for seven years as a dictator.