Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist, coined the word agnostic in 1869.

Thomas McCall in 1869 on his velocipede

Several inventions followed using rear-wheel drive, the best known being the rod-driven velocipede by Scotsman Thomas McCall in 1869.

Shortly after, in 1869, Irish chemist Thomas Andrews studied the phase transition from a liquid to a gas and coined the term critical point to describe the instant at which a gas and a liquid were indistinguishable as phases, and Dutch physicist Johannes van der Waals supplied the theoretical framework which allowed the prediction of critical behavior based on measurements at much higher temperatures.

The Dominicans of the province of France furnished Lacordaire ( 1835 – 1836, 1843 – 1851 ), Jacques Monsabré ( 1869 – 1870, 1872 – 1890 ), Joseph Ollivier ( 1871, 1897 ), Thomas Etourneau ( 1898 – 1902 ).

Thomas Fowler ( 1869 ) states the paradox as follows: " Epimenides the Cretan says, ' that all the Cretans are liars ,' but Epimenides is himself a Cretan ; therefore he is himself a liar.

He used the term as early as 1871, while in 1869, Thomas Muir, then of the University of St Andrews, vacillated between rad, radial and radian.

In 1869 Huxley coined the term ' agnostic ' to describe his own views on theology, a term whose use has continued to the present day ( see Thomas Henry Huxley and agnosticism ).

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.

Thomas Graham FRS ( 21 December 1805 – 16 September 1869 ) was a nineteenth-century Scottish chemist who is best-remembered today for his pioneering work in dialysis and the diffusion of gases.

* Samuel Thomas Bloomfield ( 1790 – 1869 ), scholar, textual critic

* MacLean, John: The life of Sir Thomas Seymour, knight, baron Seymour of Sudeley, Lord High Admiral of England and Master of the Ordnance J. C. Hotten, 1869

A fire destroyed the courthouse ( designed by Thomas Jefferson ) in 1869 and most of the early records of this county were lost.

In December 1869, Thomas Orr and a group of neighbors killed Baker.

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.

Founded in 1869 by a committee including Thomas Burns, the university opened in July 1871.

Clifton was originally settled by Thomas Charles Davis Howell and his sons in the Spring of 1869.

* Thomas Fielder Bowie ( 1808 – 1869 ), U. S. congressman

A. Thomas ; 1868 – 1869, J.

1865, Lewis Sliter ; 1866, William M. Horton: 1867, William Moul ; 1868, John L. Lape ; 1869, Moses Coul ; 1870, James Clark ; 1871, William Moul ; 1872, Burton A. Thomas ; 1873, William M. Horton ; 1874, Jeremiah Conant, Moses Coul ; 1875, William Moni ; 1876, Burton A. Thomas ; 1877, Frank Pettit, Joel B. Peck ; 1878.

New Castle became a city in 1869 and was headed by its first Mayor, Thomas B. Morgan.

In 1869 William Robbins, Thomas Showell, and William M. Harris settled at the Curlew Sinks, ten miles ( 16 km ) west of here, where Deep Creek sinks into the ground.

First settled in 1869 by Ben Samson, it was later named for inventor Thomas Edison.

The city was founded in 1869 by a Welsh businessman, John Hughes, who constructed a steel plant and several coal mines in the region ; the town was thus named Yuzovka ( Юзовка ) in recognition of his role in its founding (" Yuz " being a Russian or Ukrainian approximation of Hughes ).

Donetsk was founded in 1869 when the Welsh businessman John Hughes built a steel plant and several coal mines in the southern part of the Russian Empire at Aleksandrovka ().

Howard Robard Hughes, Sr. ( September 9, 1869 – January 14, 1924 ) was an American businessman.

The boom was caused by two men: John Hughes, a Welsh businessman who built an iron works at what is now Donetsk in 1869 – 72, and developed the Donetsk coal deposits.

In 1869, Cameron fought a duel with Robert William Hughes, after Cameron criticized Hughes in print for the opportunism: he had changed his political views from pre-war Secessionist to post-war Republican.

The Ukrainian city of Donetsk was founded in 1869 by a Welsh businessman, John Hughes, ( an engineer from Merthyr Tydfil ) who constructed a steel plant and several coal mines in the region ; the town was thus named Yuzovka ( Юзовка ) in recognition of his role in its founding (" Yuz " being a Russian or Ukrainian approximation of Hughes ).

Two years later he married Elizabeth Hughes and they had three children together ; he went on to become a judge and Member of Parliament before dying in 1869.

* Howard R. Hughes, Sr. ( 1869 – 1924 ), his father, industrialist and inventor

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.

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

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 ).

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

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.

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.