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.

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

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

* 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.

Much later, in 1869, a great number of blocks of stone from Amathus were used for the construction of the Suez Canal.

To address this growing practice, and to restore integrity to the game, at its December 1868 meeting the NABBP established a professional category for the 1869 season.

Twelve clubs, including most of the strongest clubs in the NABBP, ultimately declared themselves professional for the 1869 season.

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 historian Charles Upham, writing in 1869 says that both Mathers " are answerable ... more that almost any other ... for the opinions of their time.

That is except for a small number built in the 1860s, and the last American clipper ship from the East Boston shipyard of Donald McKay in 1869, the Glory of the Seas.

After 1869 with the opening of the Suez Canal that allowed competition with steam vessels, the tea trade then collapsed for clippers.

He was awarded the requisite habilitation for his thesis, also on number theory, which he presented in 1869 upon his appointment at Halle.

In 1869, Verdi was asked to compose a section for a requiem mass in memory of Gioachino Rossini and proposed that this requiem should be a collection of sections composed by other Italian contemporaries of Rossini.

Verdi's grand opera, Aida, is sometimes thought to have been commissioned for the celebration of the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, but, according to one major critic, Verdi turned down the Khedive's invitation to write an " ode " for the new opera house he was planning to inaugurate as part of the canal opening festivities.

At a rehearsal for one of these entertainments, Ages Ago ( 1869 ), the composer Frederic Clay introduced Gilbert to his friend, the young composer Arthur Sullivan.

His early major works for the voice included The Masque at Kenilworth ( 1864 ); an oratorio, The Prodigal Son ( 1869 ); and a dramatic cantata, On Shore and Sea ( 1871 ).

In 1869, he was awarded a PhD in absentia from the university of Rostock for that submission.

As he had divorced Ekaterina in 1869, he advertised for a wife in a newspaper in Athens.

While DNA had been known to biologists since 1869, a few scientists still assumed at the time that proteins carried the information for inheritance.

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.

After graduating at Paris as doctor of medicine in 1863, and doctor of science in 1866, he was appointed professor of physiology successively at Bordeaux ( 1866 ) and the Sorbonne ( 1869 ).

But towards the end of 1868 Sher Ali's return, and a general rising in his favour, resulted in Abdur Rahman and Azam Khan's defeat at Tinah Khan on January 3, 1869.

The number of Associate Justices is determined by the United States Congress and is currently set at eight by the Judiciary Act of 1869.

Image: Berthe Morisot The Harbor at Lorient. jpg | The Harbor at Lorient, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 1869

Shortly after, in 1869, Irish chemist Thomas Andrews studied the phase transition from a liquid to a gas and coined the term critical point to describe the instant at which a gas and a liquid were indistinguishable as phases, and Dutch physicist Johannes van der Waals supplied the theoretical framework which allowed the prediction of critical behavior based on measurements at much higher temperatures.

The " Golden spike ", connecting the western railroad to the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory, Utah, was hammered on May 10, 1869.

The fact that the Sun has a million-degree corona was first discovered by Gotrian in 1939 and Bengt Edlén in 1941 by identifying the coronal lines ( observed since 1869 ) as transitions from low-lying metastable levels of the ground configuration of highly ionized metals ( the green FeXIV line at 5303 Å, but also the red line FeX at 6374 Å ).

On 5 February 1869, George Goyder, the Surveyor-General of South Australia, established a small settlement of 135 people at Port Darwin.

* 1869 – Kappa Sigma Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.

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.

Subsequent productions include the Prince of Wales's Theatre's in 1872 and it was also the inaugural play at the new California Theatre in San Francisco in 1869.

Heinz began packing foodstuffs on a small scale at Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1869.

Founder Henry J. Heinz began packing foodstuffs on a small scale at Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1869.

Following the 1869 finalisation of UK telegraph nationalisation into a General Post Office monopoly, the Isle of Man Telegraph Company was nationalised in 1870 under the Telegraph Act 1870 ( an Act of Parliament ) at a cost to the British Government of £ 16, 106 ( paid in 1872 following arbitration proceedings over the value ).

Berthe Morisot, The Harbor at Lorient, 1869, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.