What Happened in December 1869

Historical Events

Dec 6 Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention meets at Union League Hall in Washington, D.C.

Jesse James's First Bank Robbery

Dec 7 Jesse James first confirmed bank robbery - he and his brother rob a bank in Gallatin, Missouri, shots cashier in a revenge killing

Dec 8 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
Dec 8 Timothy Eaton founds T. Eaton Co. Limited in Toronto, Canada.
Dec 9 Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia
Dec 10 The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia.
Dec 10 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
Dec 18 Canada's Hamilton Football Club plays its 1st game
Dec 28 William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum
Dec 30 Philadelphia Knights of Labor forms

Events in 1869

Famous Birthdays

Dec 1 Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (d. 1923)
Dec 2 Jonas Cohn, German philosopher (Theory of the Dialects), born in Görlitz, Germany (d. 1947)
Dec 5 Ellis Parker Butler, American author (Pigs is Pigs), born in Muscatine, Iowa (d. 1937)
Dec 7 Frank Laver, Australian cricket medium pace bowler (15 Tests, 37 wickets, BB 8/31) and baseball player (first Australian national team), born in Castlemaine, Australia (d. 1919)
Dec 16 Albert Pollard, British historian (Dictionary of Natural Biography), born in Ryde, England (d. 1948)
Dec 16 Alfred Hill, Australian-New Zealand composer and conductor (Hinemoa), born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 1960)
Dec 16 Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1952)
Dec 17 Nikolai Ivanovich Kazanli, Russian composer, born in Tiraspol, Russian Empire (now Moldova) (d. 1916)
Dec 19 Eduard Hermann, German linguist (Homer) Coburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (d. 1950)
Dec 20 Charley Grapewin, American actor (The Wizard of Oz; Libeled Lady), born in Xenia, Ohio (d. 1956)
Dec 22 Dmitri Egorov, Russian-Soviet mathematician, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1931)
Dec 22 Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (Richard Corey), born in Head Tide, Maine (d. 1935)
Dec 23 Hugh Allen, British organist, conductor (Bach Choir; Leeds Festival), and educator (Oxford, 1918-46-; Royal College of Music, 1918-37), born in Reading, Berkshire, England (d. 1946)
Dec 24 Henriette Roland Holst, Dutch poet (Women in Forest), born in Noordwijk, Netherlands (d. 1952)
Dec 26 Harry Redman, American composer, writer, and artist, born in Illinois (d. 1958)
Dec 29 Bill Howell, Australian cricket medium pace bowler (18 Tests, 49 wickets, BB 5/81; NSWCA), born in Penrith, Australia (d. 1940)
Dec 30 Adolphe Max, Belgian politician (Mayor of Brussels - escaped German captivity WWI), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1939)
Dec 30 Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist, humorist and professor (Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town), born in Swanmore, England (d. 1944)

Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

Dec 31 French impressionist painter (Odalisque), born in Le Cateau-Cambresis, France

Born in 1869

Famous Deaths

Dec 6 Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar and author (set up For the Welfare of the People organization), dies at 54
Dec 18 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer, dies at 40