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.

While a board of elders was elected for the enforcement of the Society's rules and regulations, business management passed to its trustees: Baker and Henrici, 1847 – 68 ; Henrici and Jonathan Lenz, 1869 – 90 ; Henrici and Wolfel, 1890 ; Henrici and John S. Duss, 1890 – 1892 ; Duss and Seiber, 1892 – 1893 ; Duss and Reithmuller, 1893 – 1897 ; Duss, 1897 – 1903 ; and finally to Suzanna ( Susie ) C. Duss in 1903.

He practiced in Portland, and was elected to the Maine House of Representatives, in 1868 and 1869.

The second president from Ohio, Grant was elected the 18th President of the United States in 1868, and was re-elected to the office in 1872 ; he served as President from March 4, 1869, to March 4, 1877.

Bayard was elected to his father ’ s seat in the United States Senate in 1868, and would serve there from March 4, 1869 until March 6, 1885.

In the winter of 1867, he was elected to fill the unexpired term, but a Democratic majority in the New Jersey Legislature prevented his re-election in 1869.

In November 1869, he was elected to the Birmingham Council for St. Paul's ward.

He was elected to the 41st, 42nd, 43rd and 44th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1877.

The first city elections were held on April 19, 1869 at which the following officials were elected: George F. Stearns, Mayor ; Charlie Gay, Recorder ; W. Irving Latimer, Treasurer ; and William Van Loo, Supervisor.

He served in the Civil War on the Union side as a lieutenant colonel and later as a general ; after the war he was elected to the United States House of Representatives and served through 1869.

Benjamin L. Bates was elected as the first Village President when The Village of New Haven was incorporated on May 3, 1869.

In 1869, he was elected to the Cleveland Board of Education, but as he was traveling a good deal for business at the time, was able to attend less than half the meetings.

He was elected to three one-year terms as Governor of Rhode Island ( May 1866 to May 1869 ).

Pendleton also failed to be elected to the Fortieth Congress and was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio in 1869, losing to Rutherford B. Hayes.

In 1869 he became president of the Kentucky Central Railroad and kept this position until he was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1879.

He stood for election in Haute-Garonne in 1869 in opposition to the imperial policy and failed, but was elected to the National Assembly in 1871 and later.

In 1868 he founded a weekly democratic journal, L ' Electeur libre, and in 1869 was elected both for Hérault and Paris, electing to sit for the former.

In 1869 Froude was elected Lord Rector of St. Andrews, defeating Benjamin Disraeli by a majority of fourteen.

In May 1869, he was elected to the Assembly, both by a district in Paris and another in Marseille, defeating Hippolyte Carnot for the former constituency and Adolphe Thiers and Ferdinand de Lesseps for the latter.

He became classical lecturer at Trinity College, and in 1869 was elected to the newly-founded chair of Latin at Cambridge, but resigned it in 1872.

James Alcorn was elected by the Republicans as governor in 1869, serving, as Governor of Mississippi from 1870 to 1871.

In 1865 he was elected to the Swiss Council of States which he presided in 1869.

He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on 6 December 1867, and died in office on 29 December 1869.

He was elected City attorney in 1869, and continued in that position until his death.

In April 1908 Bresee accepted Edgar P. Ellyson, president of the Holiness University of Texas of Peniel, Texas, his wife, Mary Emily Ellyson ( 1869 – 1943 ), and many leaders and members of the Holiness Association of Texas into the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, with Emily Ellyson elected pastor of the new congregation at Peniel.

Hadley was elected by the Reconstruction state legislature as a Republican to serve in the Arkansas Senate from 1869 to 1871 ; he was elected president of the Senate in 1871.