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

Hawkins, however, suggests that it was " Lie's prodigious research activity during the four-year period from the fall of 1869 to the fall of 1873 " that led to the theory's creation ( ibid ).

Innocent XII appears as one of the narrators in Robert Browning's long poem " The Ring and the Book " ( 1869 ), based on the true story of the Pope's intervention in a historical murder trial in Rome during his papacy.

Statistical data indicate that during Grant's two terms as President the number of Indian battles per year decreased by 58, going from 101 Indian battles in 1869 to 43 in 1877.

He instructed the hospital staff to wear gloves and wash their hands, instruments, and dressings with a phenol solution and, in 1869, he invented a machine that would spray carbolic acid in the operating theatre during surgery.

in 1868 Gladstone proposed the Irish Church Resolutions to reunite the Liberal Party for government ( on the issue of disestablishment of the Church of Ireland – this would be done during Gladstone's First Government in 1869 and meant that Irish Roman Catholics did not need to pay their tithes to the Anglican Church of Ireland ).

Next was the so-called Symphony No. 0 in D minor of 1869, a work which was so harshly criticized that Bruckner retracted it completely, and it was not performed at all during his lifetime, hence his choice for the number of the symphony.

A starving child during the 1869 famine in Algeria.

The highest water level ever recorded in the Bay of Fundy system occurred at the head of the Minas Basin on the night of October 4 – 5, 1869 during a tropical cyclone named the “ Saxby Gale ”.

Executed during the years 1858-1864 " ( Mannheim 1869 ).

In October 1869, the post office was renamed in honor of General Frank Wheaton by the area's first Postmaster George F. Plyer who served as a Private under Gen. Wheaton in 1861 during the American Civil War.

* Amos Kendall ( 1789 – 1869 ), United States Postmaster General during the administration of Andrew Jackson

Thorn Mountain House, built by Trickey in 1869, would evolve during the 1880s into Wentworth Hall, still in business today.

At the time it was incorporated, the township covered ( almost four times its current area of ) and included several municipalities which were formed from portions of Bloomfield during the course of the nineteenth century, including Belleville ( created on April 8, 1839 ), Montclair ( April 15, 1868 ), Woodside Township ( March 24, 1869 ) and Glen Ridge ( February 13, 1895 ).

After Lemaire finished the libretto, Saint-Saëns began actively composing act 2 of the opera, producing an aria for Dalila, a duet for Samson and Dalila, and some musical pieces for the chorus ( some of which were later assigned to act 1 ) during 1867 – 1869.

On September 6, 1869, the Avondale Mine Disaster occurred, during which a fire in the shaft, ignited by a ventilating furnace, spread to the breaker which stood over the mine shaft.

The town was renamed to Ambler in 1869 in honor of Mary Johnson Ambler, a local Quaker woman who heroically assisted during The Great Train Wreck of 1856, a local train accident in which 59 people were killed instantly and dozens more died from their injuries.

In 1869, Thomas Hughes, a Union-sympathizer and president of East Tennessee University, secured federal wartime restitution funding and state-designated Morrill Act funding to expand the college, which had been occupied by both armies during the war.

In late 1869 and early 1870, the fort was seized by Louis Riel and his Métis followers during the Red River Rebellion.

* Henry Loch, Personal narrative of occurrences during Lord Elgin's second embassy to China 1860, 1869.

While most Nova Scotian remained supportive of the Anti-Confederation Campaign during this time period, Howe ran in Hants County bi-election of 1869 to get a mandate from the people to see if they wanted him to continue to support Nova Scotia's entry into Canada.

A number of treatises on medical jurisprudence were written during the nineteenth century, the most famous of which was Isaac Ray in 1838 ( fifth edition 1871 ); others include Ryan ( 1832 ), Taylor ( 1845 ), Wharton and Stille ( 1855 ), Ordronaux ( 1869 ), Meymott ( 1882 ).

It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes.

Rasputin commonly refers to Grigori Rasputin ( 1869 – 1916 ), a mystic for the Romanov dynasty during the Russian Empire.

Schliemann, age 47, married her in October 1869, despite the 30 year difference in age.

On 9 December 1869, Sacher-Masoch and his mistress Baroness Fanny Pistor signed a contract making him her slave for a period of six months, with the stipulation that the Baroness wear furs as often as possible, especially when she was in a cruel mood.

Nothing is known of their meeting and little of Pauline herself, as Alma-Tadema never spoke about her after her death in 1869.

Her most famous performance there was her travesty performance as the Florentine minstrel in François Coppé's Le Passant ( January 1869 ).

* 1869: Coppée's La Passant, as a male troubadour ( Zanetto ); her first major stage success

The royal couple undertook a six-month tour taking in Austria, Egypt and Greece over 1868 and 1869, which included visits to her brother King George I of Greece, to the Crimean battlefields and ( for her only ) to the harem of the Khedive Ismail.

The first ideas to optimize the work in the kitchen go back to Catharine Beecher's A Treatise on Domestic Economy ( 1843, revised and republished together with her sister Harriet Beecher Stowe as The American Woman's Home in 1869 ).

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, Kovalevskaya began attending the University of Heidelberg, Germany, which allowed her to audit classes as long as the professors involved gave their approval.

According to an Easton paper of January 19, 1869, Mrs. Sophia Sandt rode from Pennsylvania to New Jersey and back again in her sleigh “ amidst the applause of the people .” The bridge, of the Burr Truss type, was 775 feet long, 18 feet wide, and cost about $ 40, 000 to construct.

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 ).

*" How To Live on Christ " a pamphlet by Harriet Beecher Stowe, taken from her Introduction to Chistopher Dean's " Religion As It Should Be or The Remarkable Experience and Triumphant Death of Ann Thane Peck " published in 1847 Hudson Taylor sent a pamphlet using the words of this preface out to all the missionaries of the China Inland Mission in 1869.

George Holmes of Pigeon Bay, the contractor for the Lyttelton Rail Tunnel, then bought the ship, refitted and used her until 1869.

The family lived in Madrid and Ávila until 1869, when Josefina Borrás de Santayana returned to Boston with her three Sturgis children, as she had promised her first husband to raise the children in the United States.

Because Laura was, in fact, 2 to 3½ years old while her family lived in Indian Territory during 1869 – 1870, and did not remember the incidents herself, Laura did more historical research on this novel than on any other novel she wrote, in an attempt to have all details as correct as possible.

Arthur Liberty married first Martha Cottam in 1865, from whom he obtained a divorce in 1869 on the grounds of her adultery and second, Emma Louise Blackmore in 1875.

Mary Borrow died in 1869, and in 1874 Borrow returned to their home in Lowestoft, where he was later joined by his stepdaughter Henrietta and her husband, who looked after him until his death on 26 July 1881 in Lowestoft.

The Crowley Memorial was erected in 1870 at Pugwash, Nova Scotia by the Legislature of Nova Scotia in honour of Mary E. Crowley, who died October 1869, aged 12 years after rescuing her younger brother and sister from a house fire.

Miss Alice Frances Louisa Phillips ( b. 26 January 1891 at 85 High Street, Ilfracombe ) and her father Mr Escott Robert Phillips ( b. 1869 Cardiff ) held 2nd Class Ticket # 2 on RMS Titanic, and set sail from Southampton on 10 April 1912 heading for New Brighton, Pennsylvania.