In 1869, Abdülaziz received visits from Eugénie de Montijo, Empress consort of Napoleon III of France and other foreign monarchs on their way to the opening of the Suez Canal.

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.

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

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.

The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor ( KOL ) was founded in Philadelphia in 1869 by Uriah Stephens and six other men.

Some also played in three other matches at the ground before 1869.

The other major contributors were John Rogers Herbert, finishing in 1864 but having had some commissions cancelled, Charles West Cope who worked until 1869, Edward Matthew Ward until 1874, Edward Armitage, George Frederic Watts, John Callcott Horsley, John Tenniel and Daniel Maclise.

For example, in 1869, the U. S. Post Office broke from its tradition of depicting presidents or other famous historical figures on the face of postage and instead used other subjects, for example, a train or a horse.

" This began a period of about four years in which he proceeded no further on Prince Igor, but began diverting materials for the opera into his other works, the Symphony No 2 in B minor ( 1869 – 76 ) and the collaborative opera-ballet Mlada ( 1872 ).

This was soon followed by other services, notably the New York service provided out of Bellevue Hospital which started in 1869 with ambulances carrying medical equipment, such as splints, a stomach pump, morphine, and brandy, reflecting contemporary medicine.

His Adhortatio ad Discipulos Academiae Sydniensis ( 1869 ) contains a number of emendations of Thucydides and other classical authors.

Some commentators, such as Rabbi Hayim Palaggi ( 1788 – 1869 ) argued that Jews had lost the tradition of distinguishing Amalekites from other people, and therefore the commandment of killing them could not practically be applied ("... We can rely on the maxim that in ancient times, Sennacherib confused the lineage of many nations.

After spending some years in other California locations, he eventually arrived in San Diego aboard the ship " Orizaba " with one hundred and ten colonies of bees on November 28, 1869.

Among other lot owners in the original town, up to 1869, were Eli Self, J. F. Smith, K. G. McLemore, Wiley Weeks, G. C. DeBerry, James Garner, Joe Hobbs, William Cook, G. G. Garner, B. Campbell, Littleton Cook, George Densmore, Louis Levison, Louis Vanshoebrook, John Waterhouse, G. W. Gibson, Isaac Rains, G. E. Jackson, J.

) The town was known for its sheep farming and other agrarian pursuits in its early years, with some industry along the South River which was washed out in a dam break in 1869.

Among the other early settlers were Jacob and Charles Voorhies, J. B. Delbridge, Dr. T. Harvey, and J. B. Collins who opened his drug store in 1869.

On March 23, 1869, Summit withdrew from the New Providence Township and reincorporated as a township without any other town.

Upon completion of the Union Pacific-Central Pacific joining together in 1869 with the Golden Spike, other railroads trying to capitalize on commerce and trade also began crossing the western country.

The most important of Skene's other works are: editions of John of Fordun's Chronica gentis Scotorum ( Edinburgh, 1871 – 1872 ); of the Four Ancient Books of Wales ( Edinburgh, 1868 ); of the Chronicles of the Picts and Scots ( Edinburgh, 1867 ); and of Adomnán's Vita S. Columbae ( Edinburgh, 1874 ); an Essay on the Coronation Stone of Scone ( Edinburgh, 1869 ); and Memorials of the Family of Skene of Skene ( Aberdeen, 1887 ).

He later joined Satsuma's Eighth Rifle Troop ; in the Boshin War that ended the Tokugawa shogunate, fighting at the Battle of Toba-Fushimi and other locations ; he was also aboard one of the ships that pursued Enomoto Takeaki and the remnants of the Tokugawa fleet to Hokkaidō in 1869.

In further books and articles published in his periodical, the Revue Spirite, Kardec kept addressing these and other criticisms until his death in 1869.

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.

Between July 25, 1869 and August 2, 1869, fearing that their loyalty would be questioned, the daimyo of 260 other domains followed suit.

The financial misdeeds of various figures throughout American history sometimes casts a dark shadow on financial investing as a whole, and include names such as William Duer, Jim Fisk and Jay Gould ( the latter two believed to have been involved with an effort to collapse the U. S. gold market in 1869 ) as well as modern figures such as Bernard Madoff who " bilked billions from investors ".

When Barron sold the island in 1869 to ten investors from San Francisco for $ 150, 000, Shaw left for San Francisco and Los Alamos where he continued ranching.

With the backing of German investors, the railroad began construction on the Colorado extension in October 1869.

Wright whose E. G Wright and Company merged with other investors to create the Boston Musical Instrument Manufactury in 1869.

*, was a civilian steamship purchased by the US Navy from a prize court 4 September 1862 and was decommissioned and sold 8 May 1869

Robert Hoke, a former Confederate general from North Carolina, purchased the cave on July 21, 1869 as one of his business enterprises after the American Civil War.

In 1869 Frank Opatrny purchased of land on the southern shore of the Fox River.

It later changed its name to Missouri River, Ft. Scott and Gulf Railroad and in 1869 purchased a right-of-way from C. A.

No further attempt to utilize the impressive water power was made until 1869 – 1870, when a colony of about 50 families from Genesee County, New York moved in, purchased land and water power rights, and began establishing a community.

J. B. Grinnell purchased of the property in 1869, and put Fontana in the center near a railroad right of way.

In 1869, John Daykin purchased land in Jefferson County, Nebraska that would later become Daykin.

A tract of land was purchased and platted, with lots to be sold at auction on May 10, 1869.

The property was purchased by William B. Carpenter in 1837, and his daughter and son-in-law Mary E. and George Mayfield inherited the house in 1869.

In 1869 Jesse, Spencer, Horace and Jame Siler, sons of Solomon Siler, and John, Josiah, James and Edward Siler, the sons of James Siler, purchased the land after moving from Siler City, North Carolina.

The canal continued to compete with the railways for many decades, but in 1869, the canal was purchased by the Glasgow and South Western Railway Company ( the successor to GPK & A ).

The canal was purchased in 1869 by the Glasgow and South Western Railway Company.

In 1869 it was purchased by John Derby Allcroft, a Worcester glove manufacturer and Member of Parliament, who recognising the value of the building's history and architectural features set about restoring and maintaining it while he also had Stokesay Court built nearby.

On December 1, 1869, Canada purchased the territory.

The island was then purchased by the Italian Government on 3 June 1869 for the sum of £ 100, 000.

He then purchased the Democratic-leaning Oregon Herald newspaper and served as editor until he sold it in 1869.

They purchased five blocks of land in downtown Fort Worth in 1869 for that purpose.

Hudson's Bay Flag The original flag of the Hudson's Bay Company served as the territorial flag from the moment Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory was purchased by Canada in 1869 until it was replaced in 1950.

In 1869 Benjamin Franklin Goodrich purchased the Hudson River Rubber Company, a small business in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

In 1869 he purchased the Dominion Ranch and became a rancher.

The Hebrew monthly ha-Levanon of August 19, 1869, rumored that a group of Christians had purchased land around the tomb and were in the process of demolishing Montefiore's vestibule in order to erect a church there.

In 1864, he returned to Woodstock, Vermont, and in 1869 purchased George Perkins Marsh's former estate.

His maternal grandparents had purchased Alki Point in 1869 from Seattle pioneer Doc Maynard.

When the estate was sold in 1869 the hall was occupied by a tenant, Nathaniel Stone, who purchased it.