The founder of France's Le Figaro newspaper, Hippolyte de Villemessant, built the Villa Soleil in 1869 for writers seeking inspiration.

Roget's Thesaurus is a widely used English language thesaurus, created by Dr. Peter Mark Roget ( 1779 – 1869 ) in 1805 and released to the public on 29 April 1852.

Another notable building in Laconia is on Main St, the Hurst House built in the Greek Revival Style by Dr. Hurst in 1869.

Among the other early settlers were Jacob and Charles Voorhies, J. B. Delbridge, Dr. T. Harvey, and J. B. Collins who opened his drug store in 1869.

Shortly afterward Dr. Thomas Hill resigned the presidency, and after a considerable interregnum Mr. Eliot succeeded to that office in 1869.

" The first Israelitish synod in 1869 at Leipsic adopted a report by Dr. Herxheimer on religious education, the thirteenth section of which contains an elaborate opinion on confirmation, recommending the same to all Jewish congregations.

Dr. Thomas Bramwell Welch developed the first Concord grape juice in 1869.

Dr Gull became a DCL of Oxford in 1868, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1869, LL. D.

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.

Other notable Union alumni include: Dr. Baruch Samuel Blumberg ( 1946 ), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ; Henry Wager Halleck ( 1837 ), chief of staff for the Union Armies during the Civil War ; William F. Fox ( 1869 ) Superintendent of Forests at the Adirondack Park in New York State ; Howard Simons ( 1951 ), managing editor of The Washington Post during the Watergate era ; Nikki Stone ( 1995 ), winner of a gold medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics for aerial skiing ; and Armand V. Feigenbaum ( 1942 ), American businessman and developer of the concept of Total Quality Management ( TQM ).

An edition, with memorial introduction and notes, was included ( 1869 ) in Dr AB Grosart's Fuller Worthies Library ; and the Metamorphosis of Tobacco was included in JP Collier's Illustrations of Early English Popular Literature, vol.

The Nuttall Encyclopædia is named for Dr. Peter Austin Nuttall ( d. 1869 ), whose works, such as Standard Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language ( published in 1863 ), were eventually acquired by Frederick Warne, and would be published for decades to come.

Roscoe's publications include, besides several elementary books on chemistry that had a wide circulation and were translated into many foreign languages, Lectures on Spectrum Analysis ( 1869 ); a Treatise on Chemistry ( the first edition of which appeared in 1877-1892 ); A New View of Dalton's Atomic Theory, with Dr Arthur Harden ( 1896 ); and an Autobiography ( 1906 ).

His mother Norah was the daughter of Sir William James Tyrone Power, Commissary-General-in-chief of the British Army from 1863 to 1869 and Martha, daughter of Dr. John Moorhead of Annaghmakerrig House and his Philadelphia-born wife, Susan ( née Allibone ) Humphreys.

" Dr. Frederic Lucas, of the American Museum of Natural History, once told me the following story of the Origin of the knot, which he had heard off the Chincha Islands while loading guano in 1869.

In 1869, Dr. John Shaw Billings -- a prominent Army surgeon — was appointed to head an investigation of the Marine Hospital Fund.

The German Dr. Gustav Nachtigal was the first Westerner to explore the region extensively, which he did between 1869 and 1873.

In 1869 Wordsworth responded to Dr J Morgan, who was investigating the health effects of rowing.

Dr. Benjamin Rush Engraving by James Barton Longacre ( 1794 – 1869 ), from painting by Thomas Sully ( 1783 – 1872 ).

The New Testament was first translated into Toba Batak by Dr. Nommensen in 1869 and a translation of the Old Testament was completed by P. H. Johannsen in 1891.

It is named Dr Vaughan Pendred ( 1869 – 1946 ), the English doctor who first described the condition in an Irish family living in Durham in 1896.

* Dr. Samuel Napier Robertson served as professor 1869 – 1901 and took over as principal of PWC following Anderson's move into the provincial civil service, serving until 1937.

The Reverend Dr. William Archer Rutherfoord Goodwin ( June 18, 1869 – September 7, 1939 ) ( or W. A. R.

He was a man of rare personal and literary charm ; he edited The Southern Methodist Episcopal Pulpit ( 1846-1852 ) and The Annals of Southern Methodism ( 1855-1857 ); he compiled Devotional Melodies ( 1842 ), and, with the assistance of Phoebe Cary, one of his parishioners, Hymns for all Christians ( 1869 ; revised 1881 ); and he published many books, among which were: The Life of Dr Adam Clarke ( 1840 ); The Triumph of Peace and other Poems ( 1840 ); The Home Altar ( 1850 ); Jesus ( 1872 ), which ran through many editions and several revisions, the title being changed in 1880 to The Light of the Nations ; Sermons ( 1885 ); The Gospel of Common Sense ( 1888 ); The Gospel of Spiritual Insight ( 1891 ) and My Septuagint ( 1892 ).

Dr. Henry Lane Williams ( July 26, 1869 – June 14, 1931 ) was an American football player and coach.

A tsunami in the Hawaiian Islands in 1869 washed away an entire town ( Ponoluu ), leaving only two forlorn trees standing where the community had been.

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.

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

In 1869, building upon earlier discoveries by such scientists as Lavoisier, Dmitri Mendeleev published the first functional periodic table.

* 1869 – Celluloid is patented.

* 1869 – Levon Shant, Armenian playwright, novelist and poet ( d. 1951 )

* 1869 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer ( d. 1922 )

* 1869 – Hans Poelzig, German architect, painter, and set designer ( d. 1936 )

* 1812 – Bertalan Szemere, Hungarian politician ( d. 1869 )

* 1803 – Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer ( d. 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.

* 1869 – Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system ( Shinōkōshō ) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.

* 1949 – Ignotus, Hungarian editor and writer ( b. 1869 )

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.

** Haliotis brazieri f. hargravesi ( Cox, 1869 ) – synonym: Haliotis ethologus, the Mimic abalone, Haliotis hargravesi, the Hargraves ’ s abalone

* 1869 – The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.

* 1869 – Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.

* 1869 – William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish-Australian poet ( d. 1963 )

* 1869 – Tom Kiely, Irish decathlete ( d. 1951 )

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In May 1894 King Alexander staged another coup: he abolished King Milan's liberal constitution of 1888 and restored the conservative one of 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.

He campaigned for re-election to the U. S. Senate in 1869, losing by a narrow margin.