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, 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.

His only formal education was at his local primary school, after which he carried out agricultural work on his father's farm before joining the French Post & Telegraph Administration as an apprentice operator in 1869.

In 1794 he took Owen Rees as a partner ; in the same year, Thomas Brown ( c. 1777 – 1869 ) entered the house as an apprentice.

It was ascribed to Domenico Ghirlandaio until 1869, when some critics recognised it as a youthful work by Leonardo, executed around 1472-1475, when he was still an apprentice in the workshop of his master, Andrea del Verrocchio.

In 1869 English photographer Henry Peach Robinson published a book entitled Pictorial Effect in Photography: Being Hints On Composition And Chiaroscuro For Photographers.

The Victorian photographer Henry Taunt set up a shop at 33 Cornmarket Street in 1869.

The noted Union Pacific Railroad photographer Andrew J. Russell also stopped here in 1869.

Harry Clifford Pidgeon ( August 31, 1869 – November 4, 1954 ), was an American sailor, a noted photographer, and was the second person to sail single-handedly around the world ( 1921-1925 ), 23 years after Joshua Slocum.

Roger Fenton ( 28 March 1819 – 8 August 1869 ) was a pioneering British photographer, one of the first war photographers.

Arnold Genthe ( January 8, 1869 – August 9, 1942 ) was a photographer, best known for his photos of San Francisco's Chinatown, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and his portraits of noted people, from politicians and socialites to literary figures and entertainment celebrities.

They were first observed in 1869 by German physicist Johann Hittorf, and were named in 1876 by Eugen Goldstein kathodenstrahlen, or cathode rays.

Wade is seven years old in 1869 when his sister, Eugenie Victoria, named after two queens, arrives in the world.

* Ivanhoe, New South Wales, a small outback town in the Australian state of New South Wales, named circa 1869 by a pioneering Scottish-born settler.

In addition, several animal species are so named, including Apistogramma agassizi Steindachner, 1875 ( Agassiz's dwarf cichlid ); Isocapnia agassizi Ricker, 1943 ( a stonefly ); Publius agassizi ( Kaup ), 1871 ( a passalid beetle ); Xylocrius agassizi ( LeConte ), 1861 ( a longhorn beetle ); Exoprosopa agassizi Loew, 1869 ( a bee fly ); and the most well-known, Gopherus agassizii Cooper, 1863 ( the desert tortoise ).

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 ”.

The Houston and Texas Central Railway laid tracks in 1869, terminating near Kosse which was named after the railway's chief engineer Theodore Kosse.

Richland County was created by the 1872-73 territorial legislature and named for Morgan T. Rich of Wahpeton, who settled on the site of the future city in 1869.

The county was created by the 1874-1875 territorial legislature and was named for William Henry Harrison Mercer ( 1884 – 1901 ), an early rancher who settled north of Bismarck in 1869.

White Pine County was established in 1869 from Lander County and named after the heavy growth of pine trees in the area which were thought to be white pine.

John Bayless Earle, for whom the town of Earlington, Kentucky was named, opened the first coal mine in the county in 1869.

Grant County, Kansas was named after Ulysses S Grant, the 18th President of the United States ( 1869 – 1877 ), four star Union General in the USA Civil War, and fought in the Mexican – American War of 1846-1848.

The county was established in 1869, named after Fort Lemhi ( or Limhi ), a remote Mormon missionary settlement from 1855-58 in Bannock and Shoshone territory.

Formed on February 4, 1869, Grant County is named for former U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant.

Camp Glen Gray is named after Frank Fellows Gray, ( 1869 – 1935 ) a well known early professional Scouter of that area.

The town, named Mineral City, attracted miners and by 1869 had grown large enough to win a post office.

The town is named in honor of Vice President Schuyler Colfax ( 1869 – 73 ), a bronze statue of whom stands on Main Street near the railroad station.

Galt was named in 1869 after former city of Galt in Canada, now part of Cambridge, the hometown of John McFarland.

Cochran, the County Seat of Bleckley County, Georgia, is named for Judge Arthur E. Cochran and was incorporated on March 19, 1869.

The village of Gridley was founded in 1869 and named after General Asahel Gridley ( or Ashael Gridley ), a noted early Republican, land investor, political backer and client of Abraham Lincoln, and a descendant of a Colonel Gridley who served at the Battle of Lexington.

It was named after William G. Greene of nearby Tallula Precinct, because he convinced the railroad to come through the town: located on the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad, Greenview was incorporated by a special act of the Illinois General Assembly on May 6, 1869, then re-incorporated under the new general municipal laws of the state in March 7, 1877.

Originally named Lebanon, the name was changed to West Lebanon in 1869 when the town was incorporated, possibly in deference to the Boone County community of the same name which established its post office on December 15, 1832, just eleven days before their own.

Ulysses, Kansas was named after Ulysses S Grant, the 18th President of the United States ( 1869 – 1877 ), four star Union General in the USA Civil War, and fought in the Mexican – American War of 1846-1848.

Twelve years before the town of Lenexa was platted in 1869, a young man named James Butler Hickok staked a claim on at what is now the corner of 83rd and Clare Road.