1869 (MDCCCLXIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1869th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 869th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1860s decade. As of the start of 1869, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1869 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1869
MDCCCLXIX
Ab urbe condita2622
Armenian calendar1318
ԹՎ ՌՅԺԸ
Assyrian calendar6619
Baháʼí calendar25–26
Balinese saka calendar1790–1791
Bengali calendar1276
Berber calendar2819
British Regnal year32 Vict. 1 – 33 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2413
Burmese calendar1231
Byzantine calendar7377–7378
Chinese calendar戊辰年 (Earth Dragon)
4566 or 4359
    — to —
己巳年 (Earth Snake)
4567 or 4360
Coptic calendar1585–1586
Discordian calendar3035
Ethiopian calendar1861–1862
Hebrew calendar5629–5630
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1925–1926
 - Shaka Samvat1790–1791
 - Kali Yuga4969–4970
Holocene calendar11869
Igbo calendar869–870
Iranian calendar1247–1248
Islamic calendar1285–1286
Japanese calendarMeiji 2
(明治2年)
Javanese calendar1797–1798
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4202
Minguo calendar43 before ROC
民前43年
Nanakshahi calendar401
Thai solar calendar2411–2412
Tibetan calendar阳土龙年
(male Earth-Dragon)
1995 or 1614 or 842
    — to —
阴土蛇年
(female Earth-Snake)
1996 or 1615 or 843

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The Marquess of Salisbury caricatured by "Ape" in Vanity Fair', 1869 - Carlo Pellegrini (25 March 1839 – 22 January 1889), who did much of his work under the pseudonym of Ape

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Else Lasker-Schüler
 
Stanisław Wojciechowski
 
Edith Anne Stoney
 
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
 
Emilio Aguinaldo
 
Calouste Gulbenkian
 
Hans Spemann

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Mohandas Gandhi
 
Victor Emmanuel III
 
André Gide
 
Henri Matisse

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Hector Berlioz
 
Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer

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