For professional baseball's founding year, Major League Baseball ( professional baseball's current official organization ) uses 1869 — the year the first professional team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, was established — and held official celebrations for professional baseball's 100th anniversary in 1969 and its 125th anniversary in 1994, both of which were commemorated with league-wide shoulder patches.

In 1870, a schism developed between professional and amateur ballplayers, after the 1869 founding of the first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings.

For almost ten years from its founding on 25 March 1869, the town of Corinne reigned as the unofficial " Gentile Capital of Utah.

In 1869, Willard was involved in the founding of Evanston Ladies ' College.

In the 15 years between the time that Gilbert wrote The Princess and the premiere of Princess Ida, the movement for women's education had gained momentum in Britain, with the founding of Girton College ( 1869 ) and Newnham College ( 1871 ) at the University of Cambridge ; and Somerville ( 1878 ) and Lady Margaret Hall ( 1878 ) at the University of Oxford.

William Dudley Haywood ( February 4, 1869 – May 18, 1928 ), better known as " Big Bill " Haywood, was a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ), and a member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America.

His expertise with torpedoes led to his being invited to Germany in June 1869 for the founding ceremony of a new naval base at Wilhelmshaven, where he met King William I of Prussia ( soon to become German emperor ), Bismarck and Moltke.

After the war she devoted herself to the promotion of women's suffrage ( along with Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe ) and the temperance movement, founding in Chicago in 1869 The Agitator, which in 1870, after she moved to Boston, was merged into the Woman's Journal, of which she was an associate editor until 1872.

Their second son Charles ( 1800 – 1869 ) followed his father into the British Royal Navy and was instrumental in founding the Swan River Colony in Western Australia.

The city was founded in 1869 by a Welsh businessman, John Hughes, who constructed a steel plant and several coal mines in the region ; the town was thus named Yuzovka ( Юзовка ) in recognition of his role in its founding (" Yuz " being a Russian or Ukrainian approximation of Hughes ).

Hale edited the Christian Examiner, Old and New ( which he assisted in founding in 1869 and which merged with Scribner's Magazine in 1875 ), Lend a Hand ( which he founded in 1886 and which merged with the Charities Review in 1897 ), and the Lend a Hand Record.

In 1869 Bromsgrove was one of the fourteen founding schools of the Headmasters ' Conference.

The history of Dillard University dates back to 1869 and its founding predecessor institutions -- Straight University ( later to be renamed Straight College ) and Union Normal School ( which was to become New Orleans University ).

After some setbacks, the mission succeeded in founding a mission at Ushuaia in 1869, under the leadership of Waite Stirling.

In 1869, when the first post office was opened, the township was renamed Hillston, after its founding publican.

Even so, in 1869 Oakham was one of the founding members of the Headmasters ' Conference ( HMC ).

Charles-René-Léonidas d ' Irumberry de Salaberry ( 27 August 1820 – 25 March 1882 ) was a French-Canadian militia officer, founding commanding officer of Les Voltigeurs de Québec, and civil servant noted for his role in negotiating on the behalf of the Government of Canada during the Red River Rebellion of 1869 – 1870.

In the period between 1869 and 1875, with the founding of the new Hungarian political system, the Hungarians chose to style their economic system under a French model.

When Luther Theological Seminary was united with Augsburg Seminary in 1963, Luther, through the process of merger, assumed the earlier founding date of 1869.

The Ukrainian city of Donetsk was founded in 1869 by a Welsh businessman, John Hughes, ( an engineer from Merthyr Tydfil ) who constructed a steel plant and several coal mines in the region ; the town was thus named Yuzovka ( Юзовка ) in recognition of his role in its founding (" Yuz " being a Russian or Ukrainian approximation of Hughes ).

Wood was a founding director of the Hamilton and Lake Erie Railway Company in 1869 and the Ontario Cotton Mills Company in 1881.

Yekaterina Dmitriyevna Kuskova ( 1869 – 1958 ) was a Russian economist, journalist and politician involved in founding both the Russian Social-Democratic Workers ' Party ( RSDRP ) and the liberal Constitutional Democratic Party.

Hamilton was the first county seat from 1869 to 1887 when it was replaced after a fire by Ely.

* William Hamilton ( tennis player ) ( 1869 – 1943 ), Irish tennis player

On 21 September 1869 at the Château de Marchais ( which is still in the possession of the Grimaldi family today ) in Champagne, Prince Albert was married to Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton ( 1850 – 1922 ), of Lanarkshire, Scotland, a daughter of the 11th Duke of Hamilton and his wife, Princess Marie of Baden.

* Juliet Pierpont Morgan ( 1870 – 1952 ) who married William Pierson Hamilton ( 1869 – 1950 )

* James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn ( 1869 – 1953 ), eldest son of the 2nd Duke

The official treaty, drafted by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish in October 1869, annexed the Dominican Republic into the United States, gave eventual statehood, the lease of Samaná Bay for $ 150, 000 yearly, and a $ 1, 500, 000 payment of the Dominican national debt.

Henry Petty-FitzMaurice married Lady Maud Evelyn Hamilton, a daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and his wife Lady Louisa Jane Russell, V. A., daughter of John, 6th Duke of Bedford in 1869.

Hamilton Fish was appointed Secretary of State by President Ulysses S. Grant and served between March 17, 1869 and March 12, 1877.

* 1869: A new United States note design with Alexander Hamilton on the left side of the front and Victory holding a shield and sword.

On November 3, 1869 he married Evelyn Byrd Beverly Douglas daughter of Hugh Douglas and Nancy Hamilton.

* Lady Albertha Frances Anne Hamilton ( 1847 – 1932 ), married in 1869 to George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough.

* Lady Maud Evelyn Hamilton ( 1850 – 1932 ), married in 1869 to Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne

In 1903, Hamilton College, a Lexington-based women's college founded in 1869, merged into Kentucky University.

The history of Hamilton Tiger-Cats Football Club can be traced back to November 3, 1869 in a room above George Lee ’ s Fruit Store, when the Hamilton Football Club was formed.

The Hamilton football club played their first game on December 18, 1869 against the 13th Battalion ( now Royal Hamilton Light Infantry ).

Swansea ( founded, roughly 1869 ), is west of Hamilton in Sherman Canyon, Nevada, USA.

James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn KG, KP, PC ( 30 November 1869 – 12 September 1953 ), styled Marquess of Hamilton between 1885 and 1913, was a British peer and Unionist politician.

* Hamilton Lyster Reed-Irish Victoria Cross recipient ( 1869 – 1931 ), grandson of Hamilton Lyster

The 1869 game between Rutgers and Princeton is important in that it is the first documented game of something called intercollegiate " football " ever played between two American colleges, and because of this, Rutgers refers to itself as The Birthplace of College Football.

Founding father of the NMFC. The North Melbourne Football Club arose from lowly origins in 1869, purportedly established to satisfy the needs of local cricketers who were keen to keep themselves fit over the winter months.

Wanderers Football Club, founded in 1869, joined Lansdowne at the grounds later.

( See: NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship for a compilation of past " national champions " since 1869.

Dumbarton Football Club is Scotland's 4th oldest football club – founded in 1872, just after Queen's Park ( 1867 ), Kilmarnock ( 1869 ) and Stranraer ( 1870 ).

In 1869 some of these decided to form the Hotham Football Club that later became a foundation member of the VFA ( Australian rules football ) today known as the North Melbourne Kangaroos.

He was named to Sports Illustrated ’ s All-Century Team ( 1869 – 1969 ) and is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, the State of Texas Hall of Fame, the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame, the San Antonio Sports Hall of Fame, and the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame.

The intercollegiate soccer in the U. S. took place on November 6, 1869, in New Brunswick, N. J., when clubs from Princeton and Rutgers played under rules modified from those of Association Football.