By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

Growing French interest in the area took place against a backdrop of British activity in Egypt and the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.

Following the 1869 finalisation of UK telegraph nationalisation into a General Post Office monopoly, the Isle of Man Telegraph Company was nationalised in 1870 under the Telegraph Act 1870 ( an Act of Parliament ) at a cost to the British Government of £ 16, 106 ( paid in 1872 following arbitration proceedings over the value ).

In 1869, the British signed a treaty at Aliwal with the Boers that defined the boundaries of Basutoland and later Lesotho, which by ceding the western territories effectively reduced Moshoeshoe's kingdom to half its previous size.

A treaty was signed at Aliwal in 1869 between the British and the Boer defining the boundaries of the protectorate, the arable land west of the Caledon River remained in Boer hands and is referred to as the Lost or Conquered Territory.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar, a coastal town which was then part of the Bombay Presidency, British India.

* 1869 – Archibald Warden, British tennis player ( d. 1943 )

In 1869 British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, co-creator of modern Evolutionary theory published his account of Malaysia's wildlife: " The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise ".

* 1869 – Joseph Duveen, British art dealer ( d. 1939 )

** Robbie Ross, British writer ( b. 1869 )

* January 18 – Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer ( 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.

In 1869, Sir Charles Mordaunt, a British Member of Parliament, threatened to name Edward as co-respondent in his divorce suit.

At a meeting with Hitler in Munich, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, ( 1869 – November 1940 ), and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier chose diplomacy over war.

' ( This despite an intriguing skull in the British Museum of a ' tree bear ' collected in 1869 by Oldham and discussed in the Annals of the Royal Zoological Society.

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (), OM, KCIE, PRA, FRIBA ( 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944 ) was a British architect who is known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.

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.

His publications include: The British Mission to Theodore, King of Abyssinia, ( 1869 ) and Asshur and the Land of Nimrod ( 1897 ).

* Rassam, Narrative of the British Mission to Theodore, King of Abyssinia ( 1869 ) at Google Books.

* Henry St. John Thackeray ( 1869 – 1930 ), a British scholar at King's College, Cambridge, an expert on Josephus and the Septuagint

Caro developed a synthesis for alizarin ( a natural pigment in madder ), and applied for a British patent on 25 June 1869.

The British Prime Minister and first chairman of the London County Council, Lord Rosebery, was sent down ( expelled ) from the University of Oxford in 1869 for buying a racehorse and entering it in the Derby − it finished last.

Henry Wood ( 1869 – 1944 ) was a British conductor.

Aleš Hrdlička or Ales Hrdlicka ( March 29, 1869 – September 5, 1943 ) was a Czech anthropologist who lived in the United States after his family had moved there in 1881.

John Shae Perring ( 1813 – 1869 ) was a British engineer, anthropologist and Egyptologist, most notable for his work excavating and documenting Egyptian pyramids.

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.

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* Wallace, Alfred Russel ( 2000 ; originally published 1869 ).

Alan was born in Dulwich, London, to Alfred Walter Bush ( 1869 – 1935 ), a director of the manufacturing chemists, W. J. Bush & Co., and his wife, Alice Maud Brinsley ( 1870 – 1951 ).

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.

Named for General Alfred Pleasonton, the city was founded in 1869.

They were: Alfred Bayes ( 1832 – 1909 ), painter ; Walter Bayes ( 1869 – 1856 ), painter ; Gilbert Bayes ( 1872 – 1952 ), sculptor ; and Jessie Bayes ( 1876 – 1970 ), painter ( some of her work can be see at Lumbutts Methodist Church, Lumbutts, Todmorden ).

* City Hall Post Office and Courthouse ( 1869 – 80 ), New York City, Alfred B. Mullett, architect.

Harold Pitney Brown ( August 27, 1869 – July 26, 1932 Malden, Massachusetts ) was the American credited with building the original electric chair based on the design by Dr. Alfred P. Southwick.

The list of notable tourists included Sir George Grey in 1849, Alfred Duke of Edinburgh in 1869, and victorian novelist Anthony Trollope in 1874.

* Alfred Lair de Beauvais ( 1820 – 1869 ), organist and composer

Sir Oliver's siblings included Sir Richard Lodge ( 1855 – 1936 ), historian ; Eleanor Constance Lodge ( 1869 – 1936 ), historian and principal of Westfield College, London ; and Alfred Lodge ( 1854 – 1937 ), mathematician.

After a few attempts to negotiate in behalf of the complaining settlers, including failed attempts by Agent Lindsay Applegate in 1864 – 6 and Superintendent Huntigton in 1867, the Modoc finally relocated in 1869 following a council between Kintpuash ( also known as Captain Jack ); Alfred B. Meacham, the US Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon that replaced Huntigton ; O. C.

Alfred Howe Terry ( November 10, 1827 – December 16, 1890 ) was a Union general in the American Civil War and the military commander of the Dakota Territory from 1866 to 1869 and again from 1872 to 1886.

* Alfred Flatow ( 1869 – 1942 ), German gymnast

The famous " Caïeu d ' Isigny " is a hymn to Isigny's sailors and fishermen, created in 1869 by Alfred Rossel.

Since 1869, when Prince Alfred, one of Queen Victoria's sons arrived on New Zealand's shores, more than fifty tours of New Zealand by a member of the Royal Family have taken place, though only five of those occurred before 1953.

The Ringling Brothers Circus was a circus founded in the United States in 1884 by five of the seven Ringling Brothers: Albert ( 1852 – 1916 ), August ( 1854 – 1907 ), Otto ( 1858 – 1911 ), Alfred T. ( 1862 – 1919 ), Charles ( 1863 – 1926 ), John ( 1866 – 1936 ), and Henry ( 1869 – 1918 ).

Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wely ( 13 November 1817, Paris – 31 December 1869, Paris ) was a French organist and composer.

The building was inaugurated by HRH Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh on 28 June 1869 on his visit to the colony.

In 1869, Adams joined Edwin Booth's acting company, appearing in Romeo and Juliet, Narcisse, Othello, and Enoch Arden, based on the poem by Alfred Tennyson.

* William Alfred Buckingham — Governor and Republican Senator for Connecticut from 1869 – 1875

Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn, CMG, LL. D, FRS, FGS ( 26 July 1824 – 19 October 1902 ) was a British geologist, director of the Geological Survey of Victoria from 1852 – 1869, director of Geological Survey of Canada 1869 – 1894 and President of the Royal Society of Canada 1895-1896 .< ref name = adb >