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.

In 1869, Breckinridge became vice president of the Elizabethtown, Lexington, and Big Sandy Railroad Company.

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 county built a fireproof brick building next door to the former church in 1869 – 70 to house the probate and circuit clerk offices.

In June 1869, Akerman argued in defense of Richard W. White, a mullato who had won the state election for Superior Court county clerk.

In 1869 he found his way back into bourgeois society, when he took a job as a clerk ( probably because he badly needed money ) in the imperial police headquarters in Vienna.

In the Spring of 1869, Vail was appointed clerk of the railway mail service between Omaha and Ogden.

* John Varah Long ( 1826 – 1869 ), clerk for Brigham Young, the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

From 1867 to 1869, Storey was clerk for the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, effectively private secretary to its chairman, Senator Charles Sumner.

In 1869 he entered the Civil Service as clerk in the Home Office, where he remained until he became an inspector of schools in 1874.

In 1869, Ward found a job at the Post Office, and later as a clerk.

But on November 25, 1869 McFarland shot Richardson in the offices of the New York Tribune in front of the night clerk Daniel Frohman ( later a famous Broadway producer ).

Alfred Henry Scott ( c. 1840 – 28 May 1872 ) was a bartender and clerk at the Red River Colony community of Saint Boniface, Manitoba, and was noted for having been selected as a delegate to represent the provisional government of Louis Riel in negotiations with the Government of Canada during the Red River Rebellion of 1869 – 1870.

In his younger days he worked as a clerk at the New York Tribune, and while there witnessed the fatal shooting of the reporter Albert Deane Richardson by Daniel McFarland on November 25, 1869, and was a witness at McFarland's murder trial.

In May 1867, Bourinot left this newspaper and worked as a freelance writer for some time, until he secured a job as a clerk at the Canadian Senate in May 1869.

Peirce worked as a clerk for fellow ex-New Englander James Hunnewell ( 1794 – 1869 ), who ran a mercantile business.

In 1869, Howe made a partner of Abraham Hummel ( July 27, 1850 – January 21, 1926 ), his physical opposite and former clerk, a runtish, rake-thin genius renowned for his ability to spot loopholes in the law.

Holmes was the daughter of Norwegian immigrant Louis A. Holmes ( born in Norway in October 1862 ), a railroad clerk employed by the Illinois Central Railroad, who had migrated to the United States in 1867, and his wife Sophia ( born April 1869 in Indiana ), and was the sister of Frank O. Holmes ( born June 1889 in Illinois ) and Florence ( born in May 1896 in Illinois ), and two other siblings who died in infancy.

He was knighted in 1860 and presided over the Court of Probate and Divorce from 1863 until his retirement in 1872, being raised to the peerage as Baron Penzance, of Penzance in the County of Cornwall, in 1869.