The Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864 granted federal support for the construction of the United States ' First Transcontinental Railroad, which was completed in 1869.

He was stationed in San Francisco from 1869 through 1871 and he took out a patent for the cable car railway that still runs there, receiving a charter for its operation, but signing away his rights when he was reassigned.

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.

Andrew Johnson ( December 29, 1808 July 31, 1875 ) was the 17th President of the United States ( 1865 – 1869 ).

One of Johnson's last significant acts as President was to grant unconditional amnesty to all Confederates on Christmas Day 1868, after the election of Ulysses S. Grant but before he took office in March 1869.

Ambros was professor of the history of music at Prague from 1869 to 1871.

The construction work began in November 1869 and the mosque was finished in 1871.

The term " outback " was first used in print in 1869, when the writer clearly meant west of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.

Another group of animals discovered subsequently, whose filtering mechanism looked similar, was also included in " Bryozoa " until 1869, when the two groups were noted to be very different internally.

Many notable sea canals were completed in this period, starting with the Suez Canal ( 1869 )-which carries tonnage many times that of most other canals-and the Kiel Canal ( 1897 ), though the Panama Canal was not opened until 1914.

From 1869 to 1872, he was employed as an Assistant in Harvard's astronomical observatory, doing important work on determining the brightness of stars and the shape of the Milky Way.

The great edition, of which the text and apparatus appeared in 1869 and 1872, was called by himself editio viii ; but this number is raised to twenty or twenty-one, if mere reprints from stereotype plates and the minor editions of his great critical texts are included ; posthumous prints bring the total to forty-one.

It was on the Cheddar Valley line, a railway line that was opened in 1869 and closed in 1963.

During the 1869 season, Cleveland was among several cities which established professional baseball teams following the success of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first fully professional team.

An 1869 game of intercollegiate " football " between Rutgers and Princeton is often cited as the first intercollegiate American football game, however it was an unfamiliar ancestor of today's college football, as it was played under 6-year-old soccer-style Association rules.

The game played between teams from Rutgers University and Princeton University, which was called the College of New Jersey at the time, took place on November 6, 1869 at College Field, which is now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

First modern census in the area of today's Slovakia was taken in 1869.

In 1869, German physicist Johann Hittorf was first to realize that something must be travelling in straight lines from the cathode to cast the shadows.

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.

The final blow was the Suez Canal, opened in 1869, which provided a great shortcut for steamships between Europe and Asia, but was difficult for sailing ships to use.

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.

Victor Emanuel III ( Italian: Vittorio Emanuele III ; 11 November 1869 – 28 December 1947 ) was a member of the House of Savoy and King of Italy ( 29 July 1900 – 9 May 1946 ).

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

The name of the town reportedly derives from the last syllable of the surname of Ulysses Hinchman, who was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from Logan County between 1866 and 1869.

James Bryson McLachlan ( 1869 – 1937 ) was born in Ecclefechan but emigrated to Nova Scotia, where he became a noted Labour figure, and member of the Communist party.

He was also the first member of the Royal Family to visit New Zealand, arriving in 1869 on.

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The decisive point of his career was in the summer of 1869, when he accepted the post of legal member of the Colonial Council in India.

Akerman joined the Republican Party in the campaign for black-American citizenship and suffrage, and was an outspoken proponent of Reconstruction as a member of Georgia's 1868 state constitutional convention and as U. S. district attorney for Georgia ( 1869 ).

Johan Welhaven was the member of an accomplished family which included his sister socialite Maren Sars, the wife of theologian and biologist Michael Sars ( 1805 – 1869 ), and mother of historian, Ernst Sars ( 1835 – 1917 ), marine biologist Georg Ossian Sars ( 1837 – 1927 ) and mezzosoprano singer Eva Nansen ( 1858 – 1907 ).

His father, Victor Ruffy ( 1823-1869 ), was a member of the Federal Council in 1868 / 1869.

He was an original member of the Metaphysical Society ( 1869 ).

He also was a member of the Metaphysical Society, founded in 1869 by James Knowles.

He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1869 to March 4, 1871, but unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1870.

During his absence he was elected member for King's Lynn, which he represented till October 1869, when he succeeded to the peerage.

He entered the Baltimore Conference in 1863 and became a charter member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference upon its organization in 1869.

He returned to Washington as a member of the US House of Representatives and was even a Republican candidate for the US Senate in 1869 before he withdrew himself from candidacy.

William Dudley Haywood ( February 4, 1869 – May 18, 1928 ), better known as " Big Bill " Haywood, was a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ), and a member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America.

James “ Sunny Jim ” Rolph, Jr. ( August 23, 1869 – June 2, 1934 ) was an American politician and a member of the Republican Party.

A public library, named after intellectual figure Dinicu Golescu, was created in 1869 through a donation made by Paraschiva Stephu, a female member of the upper class ; a large part of its volumes were donated by historian George Ionescu-Gion in 1904.

Jessel entered Parliament as Liberal Party member for Dover in 1868, and although neither his intellect nor his oratory was of a class likely to commend itself to his fellow-members, he attracted William Ewart Gladstone's attention by two learned speeches on the Bankruptcy Bill which was before the house in 1869, with the result that in 1871 he was appointed Solicitor General.

The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge inducted him as a member in 1869.

He first met his second wife, Eva Simpson, daughter of Wharton Simpson, a fellow journalist and fellow member of Whitefriars Club, in 1869.

Joseph Ritner ( March 25, 1780 – October 16, 1869 ) was the eighth Governor of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, elected as a member of the Anti-Masonic Party.