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.

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.

In 1870, Henry D. Washburn, having been appointed Surveyor General of Montana in 1869, organized the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition in Helena to explore the regions that would become Yellowstone National Park.

" Montgomery County was surveyed and organized in 1869 ; the governor appointed commissioners June 3.

He allowed free debates in Parliament to be held and published, relaxed press censorship, and appointed the Liberal Émile Ollivier as Prime Minister in 1869.

After his death in Spain in 1869, de Celis's widow and children returned to California, and his eldest son, Eulogio, was appointed administrator of his estate.

But in 1869, George Careless was appointed as the Choir's conductor and the Tabernacle Choir began to musically improve.

He was appointed secretary of the NP board in March 1869.

He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1869, and on the resignation of Sir Thomas Maclear in 1870 he was appointed Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope.

McDougall was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory in 1869.

Elected republican deputy for Paris in 1869, he protested against the declaration of war with Germany, and on 6 September 1870 was appointed prefect of the Seine by the Government of National Defense.

Returning in 1869, he was appointed assistant astronomer at Altona in 1873, and afterwards at Kiel.

He was appointed master of the Temple in 1869, and dean of Llandaff in 1879, apost he held until his death.

In 1844 Sir Robert Peel appointed him as a Canon of Westminster ( 1844 – 1869 ).

In 1869 Benjamin Disraeli appointed him Bishop of Lincoln which he retained until his death in 1885.

In 1869 President Grant appointed Akerman as U. S. Attorney in Georgia.

McLelan followed Howe to the Confederation side, and was appointed to the Senate in August 1869.

The Canadian government had bought Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1869 and appointed an English-speaking governor, William McDougall.

The Canadian government appointed the notoriously anti-French McDougall as the Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories-designate on September 28, 1869, in anticipation of a formal transfer to take effect on December 1.

In 1869 he became a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, and in 1874 he was appointed by Mgr Capel as Professor of Biology at the short-lived ( Catholic ) University College, Kensington a post he held until 1877.

Eventually Kepa turned up and the day of the attack was appointed, 4 October 1869.

In 1869 von der Tann-Rathsamhausen, as he was now called, was appointed commander of the I. Bavarian Corps.

He was appointed U. S. Pension Agent in 1869 for four years and served three terms as mayor of Springfield beginning in 1876.

Itagaki was appointed a Councilor of State in 1869, and was involved in several key reforms, such as the abolition of the han system in 1871.